2 Massachusetts Audubon Society 



ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING 

 The Annual Business Meeting of The Massachusetts Audubon Society, 

 Inc., will be held at the office of the Society, 66 Newbury Street, Boston, on 

 Saturday, January 28th, at 3 P.M. All Life and Sustaining Members of the 

 Society are members of the corporation and have voting powers at this 

 meeting. This is official notice to all such as is required by law. The 

 Annual Reports of the Secretary and Treasurer and of the Auditing and 

 Nominating Committees are made at this meeting. A detailed report of the 

 work and funds of the Society is issued in the February Bulletin of each 

 ygaj._ WiNTHROP Packard, Secretary. 



HAPPY NEW YEAR 

 The Audubon Society extends to all members its cordial wishes for a 

 happy and prosperous New Year. The coming of 1922 finds it in good con- 

 dition financially. Particularly successful has been the Christmas trade of 

 bird charts, bird calendars and worth-while bird books and bird-protection 

 material. Its thanks are due and are hereby given to all members who have 

 so cordially assisted in making this sale successful. The material that thus 

 goes out carries its own lesson of bird study and bird protection, and the 

 money received helps the Society to further opportunities in the good work. 



THE FIRST BIRD LAW 



Before Christ 1451 years, when the old Hebrew lawgiver, Moses, formu- 

 lated a code for the children of Israel, he enacted the following: "If a bird's 

 nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, 

 whether they be young ones or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or 

 upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young; but thou shalt in 

 anywise let the dam go, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest 

 prolong thy days." 



THE POPE ENJOINS BIRD PROTECTION 



Extract from "Swallows," by Evelyn Martinengo Cesaresco, which 

 appeared in "The Spectator," issue of June 25, 1921, page 810. 



"I received yesterday a communication from the National Association, 

 which has its seat at Genoa. This association has prepared a circular to be 

 sent to the parish priests, in which they are urged to enjoin on their flocks, 

 and especially on the children, respect both for the birds and the nests. The 

 circular is accompanied by a letter of Cardinal Gasparri, written by command 

 of the Pope, who gives his warm approbation to the proposal to enlist the 

 services of the priests for the protection of 'the birds of the air, which, 

 besides being useful to agriculture, seem also the best consolers of man in 

 his pilgrimage through this vale of tears, and which, more than anything else, 

 lift our thoughts to God the Creator.' " 



BIRD BANDING ASSOCIATION MEETING 



The first meeting of the New England Bird Banding Association will be 

 held Tuesday, January 17th, at 2 o'clock at the Boston Society of Natural 

 History, 234 Berkeley Street, Boston, for the election of officers and to hear 

 a talk by Mr. S. Prentiss Baldwin on "Instructions in Bird Banding." 



Mr. Baldwin is making a special trip from Cleveland to attend this first 

 meeting and deliver his lecture. 



