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to provide such perches on our Massachusetts lights, if needed, the 

 Society began in the spring of 1916 an investigation of the conditions 

 at our Massachusetts lighthouses, getting reports from the light- 

 keepers. At most of our lights, it has been shown there is little or no 

 loss of bird life. At the few where some loss is reported the conditions 

 are under observation, but it seems probable that, in our State at least, 

 no remedial measures will be found necessary. 



Annual As a part of its educational work the Society gives annually 

 Lecture a course of bird lectures by the foremost specialists of the 

 Course, country. In the spring of 1915, Mr. William L. Finley of 

 Oregon came to Huntington Hall and gave two lectures with 

 moving pictures. As the rules of Huntington Hall do not permit sell- 

 ing tickets at the door, the tickets for the lectures were offered by 

 mail with gratifying results, the hall, which seats nearly 1000, being 

 filled to capacit}"^ for both lectures. 



In November of the same year, Mr. Herbert K. Job, who had been 

 studying the birds on the great Southern reservations in company 

 with Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt, came to Ford Hall and showed 

 moving pictures of this expedition. The date fell on the day of the 

 Harvard-Yale game at Cambridge, but in spite of that about a thou- 

 sand people attended. 



In the spring of 1916 the Society presented five bird lectures at 

 Tremont Temple, two by Mr. William L. Finley, one each by Mr. How- 

 ard Cleaves, Prof. Wells W. Cooke, and Mr. Louis Agassiz Fuertes. 

 The increasing interest in the subject is shown by the attendance, which 

 averaged about 1500 persons for each lecture, the great auditoriiun 

 at the Temple being needed to seat the throngs. In all these courses, 

 the Lecture Committee had the satisfaction of presenting the best men 

 in the country to record audiences, thus increasing the work for good 

 and also adding substantial sums to the treasury of the Society. It 

 is planned to give four lectures of equal value on four Saturdays in 

 March, 1917. 



Free Furthering the same educational ideas, the Secretary has 



Lectures, given during the past two years lectures before schools, 

 colleges, clubs, granges and other organizations to the num- 

 ber of 120 to audiences totalling some 30,000 persons. Many of these 

 lectures have been illustrated by stereopticon. There has been no 

 charge for these lectures and they have been much in request. The 

 Directors feel that this work has been very effective in rousing the senti- 

 ment for bird protection now so evident throughout the State. 



During the month of March, 1916, the Society shared with the 



