REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS 



The Directors of the Massachusetts Audubon Society submit the 

 following report of the activities of the Society during the past two 

 years. The Society has listed now 410 Life Members, 2771 Sustaining 

 Members, 329 Associates and 26,991 Juniors — a total membership 

 of 30,501. 



Incorporation. In pursuance of long-considered plans the Society 

 was incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts 

 in January, 1915, the legal formalities being attended to by Mr. James 

 A. Lowell, Counsel for the Society. The officers' aims and methods 

 of the Society remain practically the same, the incorporation serving 

 to strengthen it in many ways. 



Activities and The ever broadening influence and activities of the 

 Influence. Society are felt far beyond the borders of the common- 



wealth. Requests for literature, information, advice or 

 assistance often come to us from remote States — Texas, California, 

 Florida, for instance, and recently a request from Russia. Such in- 

 formation or assistance is invariably given and through it the name 

 and reputation of the Society carries far. The Audubon charts and 

 calendars find an ever-widening market, the former having been placed 

 in schools or libraries in every State in the Union and in Canada. 



Office and During the past two years the Society has occupied a 

 Exhibit. large basement room in the building of the Boston So- 

 ciety of Natural History with entrance at 66 Newbury 

 Street where it exhibits bird books and charts and literature con- 

 cerning birds and bird protection and has also a growing collection 

 of specimens of bird-houses, feeders, baths and other like material 

 for the protection and attraction of our wild birds. This exhibition 

 is open to the public at all times as well as to the members of the 

 Society and advice and encouragement are freely given. The office 

 is in fact headquarters for all things pertaining to the study and 

 protection of our wild birds and is so regarded by the public. 



Travelling This influence is extended throughout the State in many 

 Lectures. various ways. For instance we have four travelling lec- 

 turers, available to any teacher or bird student who 

 wishes to use them. Two have lantern-slide illustrations, one has col- 

 ored plates of birds, and the fourth is a set of slides alone, which the 

 lecturer adapts to his own uses. These lectures are supplied without 

 cost other than the charge for carriage and are in constant use 

 throughout the State, occasionally being asked for beyond the border. 



