M OTithly Bulletin 3 



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 

 tilings 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? 



FORM OF BEQUEST 



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

 porated, the sum of Dollars for its 



Reserve Fund. 



The Bird Lectures: Be sure and reserve the dates, March 29th, April 

 2nd and April 9th, 1921 for the Audubon Bird Lectures which will be 

 given again this year in Symphony Hall on Saturday afternoons at 2 o'clock. 

 The Audubon Society's motion-picture film "The Birds of Killingworth" 

 will be shown at one of these lectures. There will be extraordinary motion 

 pictures of birdlife by Robert Cushman Murphy, Norman McClintock, Dr. 

 Thomas S. Roberts of the University of Minnesota, and possibly some others. 

 Mr. Edward Avis, well known for his wonderful whistling reproductions of 

 bird music, will appear at two of the lectures. The course will be a treat 

 for birdlovers, exceeding anything which the Society has yet put before the 

 public. Further details will be found in later issues of the Bulletin, and 

 itickets with full information will be distributed to members as usual. 



Chart Prices: On December 1st, the price of the Audubon Bird Charts 

 was advanced to $2,50 each. It was with much regret that the Chart Com- 

 mittee made this decision. Conditions in the printing trade made it neces- 

 sary. Charts which we have been selling at $1.50 each would have to be 

 sold at a loss under present conditions. 



