Monthly Bulletin 3 



There will always be need of organized work for bird protection, a 

 form of conservation of the greatest importance to the general welfare. The 

 Reserve Fund of the Society, when of sufficient size, will insure this. Can 

 you not help in this way? 



FORM OF BEQUEST 

 / give and bequeath to the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Incor- 

 porated, the sum of . . • ■ Dollars for its 



Reserve Fund. 



REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS 



The Directors of the Massachusetts Audubon Society submit the follow- 

 ing report. Our work during the past year, judging from the income and 

 outgo of the Society, has just about doubled. In effectiveness and scope we 

 feel sure that it has increased in at least an equal ratio. Legislative work 

 throughout the country has been carefully scanned and we have helped in 

 all important matters perlaining to conservation. Contributing both money 

 and service to the work of the National Association in forming junior classes 

 in bird study in Massachusetts schools, we were helpful in increasing the 

 showing of our State to second place among all the States. More than 30,000 

 juniors were thus added to the list of youthful bird students in our schools. 

 During the year a vast amount of mail, numbering upwards of 100,000 pieces 

 has gone out from this office, including a voluminous correspondence with 

 people in this and many other States on matters of bird protection. We 

 rejoice that we have been able to advise and assist other Audubon Societies in 

 their good work, have had a helpful hand in the forming and encouraging of 

 bird clubs and promoting individual bird study and bird protection in far 

 distant places as well as in many localities in our own State. Here our chief 

 work lies, but we are glad to be so often of use elsewhere. During the year 

 we have added to our roll 52 Life and 650 Sustaining Members, our greatest 

 record of new members for any one year. 



PUBLICATIONS 

 BULLETIN 



Our edition of the Monthly Bulletin has been four thousand or more 

 each month. Through it we reach every member, keeping all informed as to 

 the needs and activities of the Society, giving notice of events of interest and 

 importance in the bird world and recording, we believe, many worth-while 

 matters. The Bulletin goes also to Libraries and Museums, files are kept at 

 the office and most back numbers may be obtained although some are now 

 out of print. The editors welcome brief articles of personal experience with 

 birds and many such of value as records of bird-life have been printed. 



BIRD CHARTS 



Our three Charts, picturing seventy-two common birds in color, while 

 most in use by educators, libraries and individuals throughout New England, 

 have had wide circulation elsewhere, having been placed in one hundred and 

 thirty-eight other cities and towns, representing most of the States of the 

 Union as well as some places outside — Seward, Alaska, Jerusalem, Pales- 

 tine, and London, England, for instance. Regretfully, on December 1st we 

 were obliged to increase the price of the Charts to $2,50 each, conditions in 



