2 Massachusetts Audubon Society 



ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING 



January 15, 1918. The Annual Business Meeting of the Massachusetts 

 Audubon Society, Inc., will be held at the Society's Office, 66 Newbury 

 Street, on Saturday, January 25th, 1919, at 3 p. m. 



This is the Corporation meeting and should not be confused with the 

 Annual Mass Meeting, which will be held in the spring. Plans are on foot 

 for making this Annual Mass Meeting an outdoor one at the Moose Hill 

 Bird Sanctuary, Sharon, Mass. Notice of this latter meeting will be sent 

 out later. Winthrop Packard, Secretary-Treasurer. 



BIRD LECTURES 



Definite dates have now been assigned for the Bird Lectures at Tremont 

 Temple as follows: 



February 8th, Norman McClintock. 

 February 15th, Prof. Dallas Lore Sharp. 

 March 1st, William L. Finley. 

 March 8th, Clinton G. Abbott. 



These men are leaders in the lecture field and will come to us this year 

 with entirely new material. Audubon Society members will be given first 

 opportunity to purchase these tickets, which will be issued shortly if they 

 have not already appeared by the time this is printed. 



The bird lectures have in previous years taxed the capacity of Tremont 

 Temple to the utmost. In addition to the moving and still pictures to be 

 shown by the respective lecturers, other films of extraordinary scenes in bird- 

 life will be shown. Mr. Edward Avis, well known for his violin and whist- 

 ling imitations of bird music, will appear at one or more of these lectures. 

 Negotiations are in progress with other whistling imitators of bird music, and 

 it is believed that, all in all, the lecture course will surpass anything that 

 has previously been done by the Society. Do not forget to reserve these 

 dates. 



SANCTUARY PARAGRAPHS 



Joe Jefferson's 10,000-acre Louisiana island — happily called Bob Acres 

 — will be, as a bird refuge, a better monument than marble makes. 



The Middlesex Sportsman's Association has posted the little island in 

 Spy Pond, Arlington, owned by the Boston & Maine railroad, the use of 

 which has been given the association for a bird sanctuary, and steps will be 

 taken to prosecute all who go on to the place to interfere with the birds. 



A bird sanctuary has been established at Fulton Park, Waterbury, 

 Conn., the gift of William E. Fulton to the city. The Waterbury Bird 

 Club has acted jointly with the park superintendent in the establishment of 

 the bird sanctuary. The Waterbury Bird Club, Inc., has a membership 

 of 175. 



The articles of association contain as the purposes for which it was 

 formed the following: 



