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sees the beauty and feels the lesson that nature is teaching, and leads a man to 

 go out as a missionary to spread this lesson broadcast. It would be treason to 

 his memory to permit that work to suffer for which he gave so much time and 

 effort. The Society has since held another election, at which Dr. Robert C. 

 Jones was chosen President. 



Owing to the death of Mr. Cummins, the Society abandoned the series of 

 lectures in the libraries, which had been given so regularly, and in which Mr. 

 Cimimins had always played so prominent a part. Nevertheless, the Society 

 has not been inactive. Dr. Eugene Swope, Field- Agent, in Ohio, of the National 

 Association, gave fifty lectures last year in Cincinnati and vicinity, with an 

 average attendance of 125 (and this was accomplished despite the fact that he 

 spent the winter in Florida), has organized large Audubon Societies in Colum- 

 bus and Cleveland, and has been instrumental in bringing the work of the 

 Society before the public in every part of Ohio. 



Our new President has already given lectures in eight of the public 

 schools, and has interested the Superintendent of Schools in the educational 

 plan for the coming year. Mr. Cramer has, as usual, given numerous lectures 

 to clubs and schools, and for many years has been the personal conductor of 

 the field-excursions which the 'Ramblers' have enjoyed weekly. Because of 

 his knowledge of birds, and because of the knowledge of general zoology and 

 botany of Mrs. Hansen, another active member of the Society, these walks are 

 the quintessence of cultural enjoyment. 



Other women, too, have done much to disseminate a knowledge of birds, 

 notably Mrs. Lewis Hopkins, who has been very active in Georgia in the win- 

 ter and in the North in the summer. She works with true missionary spirit, 

 and spreads the news of both the esthetic and economic value of birds in the 

 charitable clubs as well as in the prominent women's clubs of which she is a 

 member, yet she finds time to write instructive papers on "Wing Construc- 

 tion and Flight," on the "Analysis of Bird Music," and on other themes, to 

 the entertainment and advantage of the Society. Nevertheless, the plans for 

 the coming year are more ambitious than ever, and where there is ambition 

 and zeal, there must surely follow worthy results. — Katherine Ratter- 

 MANN, Secretary. 



Oregon. — The Audubon work in Oregon for the year has been devoted 

 largely to education. The sentiment among the people regarding the protec- 

 tion of insectivorous birds is favorable, and in some places strong. We have 

 the boy with the gun, the immature man with the gun, and the alien with the 

 gun, and have to deal with them, each after its kind. The law forbidding wear- 

 ing of millinery plumage has been enforced with scant mercy, so that the sight 

 of a Grebe-breast or a Heron's plume is rare on our streets, and then usually 

 the feathers are worn by a tourist from some eastern state. Our warden — a 

 woman — ^politely gives the culprit warning as to the law and the con- 



