2 Massachusetts Audubon Society 



GREETINGS 



The Massachusetts Audubon Society has been busy all summer, 

 the office has been open and the constant and varied calls upon it for 

 service to the public in matters of bird protection and bird study have 

 been faithfully attended to. This issue of the Bulletin goes to press as 

 the vacation season is fully over. To bird lovers throughout the world 

 we send greetings. Our work is by no means confined within the borders 

 of our own State. Important as it is within these borders, tlie good 

 will of the Society and its desire to serve go to all whose interests are 

 our own wherever they are. 



We publish or provide the best in bird charts, bird calendars, bird 

 books and all bird protection material. Wliether you are a member of 

 our Society or not we cordially invite you to bring your bird problems 

 to us. If direct help is possible, we give it. We can at least give you 

 the benefit of expert advice. Purchase of bird books, charts, calendars 

 or other material through the office by mail or in person aids our cause 

 not only in prestige but in funds. We will gladly attend to orders of 

 this sort, large or small, from any source at any time. 



Our Society greatly needs funds to support the constantly increas- 

 ing expenses of its work. We believe that we are the greatest existing 

 agency for that sane preservation of wild life which is now recognized 

 as of incalculable benefit to mankind. 



Will you not help us to maintain this work at its best? 



WILLIAM BREWSTER 



William Brewster, the first President of the Massachusetts Audu- 

 bon Society, died at his home in Cambridge, July 11th last, in his sixty- 

 ninth year. Mr. Brewster was one of the founders of the Society and 

 was chosen President at its organization in 1896. He held the office till 

 December, 1913, when he resigned to devote himself more exclusively 

 to his scientific and literary work and was made an honorary Vice- 

 President of the Society. Mr. Brewster was the most eminent of New 

 England ornithologists. While he owned one of the largest private col- 

 lections of birds in the country and was well known as a systematist, 

 his chief study was the habits of birds, and this gave him a keen interest 

 in their protection. He was much loved by all who knew him, and his 

 death leaves a keen sense of loss among the Directors of the Society, 

 with whom he worked faithfully for the cause of bird-protection for so 

 many years. 



MOOSE HILL BIRD SANCTUARY 



From January 1st to September 21st, 1919, 1150 persons visited the 

 Sanctuary. One hundred and one different cities and towns were repre- 

 sented by these visitors who came from seventy-seven cities and towns 



