2 Massachusetts Audubon Society 



NO SUMMER BULLETIN 



As has been the custom since it was established, there will be no issues 

 of the Bulletin during the months of July, August and September. The 

 editors wish all readers a pleasant and prosperous vacation season and plan 

 to greet them all with renewed interest in the October number. The Bul- 

 letin has made many friends during its three years of publication. Its 

 genial ministrations have added members to the Society during that time. 

 Especially is this true of the past month, when some two hundred have 

 joined in order to to receive it regularly. 



THANK YOU ALL 



The circular letter sent out last month to all members calling attention 

 to the need of money for the Sanctuary is meeting with a widespread and 

 most generous response which promises to put the Sanctuary work on its 

 feet for the year. Most hearty thanks are due to all for this service, and 

 especially for the promptness and good will with which it has been ren- 

 dered. The Audubon Society's Moose Hill Bird Sanctuary is a vital force 

 in the great cause of bird protection. The world is already making a path 

 to its door. Of a single pleasant spring day sometimes a hundred peop(le 

 come on foot or in motors eager to learn bird-lore, to understand Sanctuary 

 methods, and to carry these ideas to places near and far where other 

 sanctuaries may be established. 



LEGACIES 



It is probable that few members of the Audubon Society realize the 

 breadth of its work and the distance to which its influence for good carries. 

 The forests of Massachusetts, the waters of Yellowstone Park, the birds of 

 the wild marsh regions of southern Oregon — all alike — come within the 

 scope of its interests and good influence. It works for good legislation 

 and against bad legislation at Washington as well as on Beacon Hill. Its 

 bird charts today interest and instruct children in Honolulu, in Alaska, in 

 Jerusalem even, as well as in every State of the Union, and its other pub- 

 lications have an equally wide field. It does all these and a thousand other 

 things on a membership fee of $1.00 a year and such other funds as it 

 can earn from day to day. 



Will you help make this increasingly widespread and valuable work 

 permanent through an adequate Reserve Fund? 



Sums donated by will to the Society are placed in the Reserve Fund 

 of the Society, a use of the money which has peculiar value because of its 

 permanence. 



The altruistic work of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, carried on 

 for many years with increasing success, suggests the desirability of remem- 

 bering it in this fashion. All the funds of the Society are handled carefully 

 and conservatively, but the Reserve Fund, in the exclusive control of the 

 Board of Directors, is especially worthy of the consideration of testators 

 who wish to make legacies of lasting usefulness. 



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? 



