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shall accomplish, without question, much if not all that we would 

 wish. 



With regret for losses, with pleasure and satisfaction in such 

 measure of gains as have been ours, your Secretary pledges 

 to the Society the best that is in him, which is all that he asks 

 from any fellow member. 



Beecher S. Bowdish, 



Secretary. 



REPORT OF THE RIDGEWOOD AUDUBON SOCIETY 



The Ridgewood Branch is a small organization having usuallj 

 from 12 to 16 members, with average attendance at each meet- 

 ing of but four or five members — work therefore is necessarily 

 limited. Yet results each season among the school children sho\^ 

 increasing interest in our song birds. Prizes are offered at the 

 close of the school year for occupied bird houses put up at the 

 children's homes, each child writing a letter describing the oc- 

 cupants, their daily life, number of young, kind of food given, 

 etc. Seventy-five houses were reported taken by feathered 

 tenants this spring, which meant much comfort for the birds, 

 and a distribution of prize subscriptions to Bird-Lore and copies 

 of Reed's Guide to the Birds East of the Rockies, as well as 

 cash, to the forty-nine children. 



On July 4th, the Ridgewood Branch occupied a booth at an 

 outdoor Bazaar for the benefit of the Red Cross and there was 

 not space to exhibit all the interesting material collected. 



Bird houses and bird gan^es were sold, suet logs and Simplex 

 suet holders, copies of the Travels of Birds and of Bird Guides, 

 which literature was given free. 



In the early part of June, the Ridgewood Branch had a re- 

 production of *'The Spirit of Audubon," given at the Ridge- 

 wood Moving Picture House. It is an instructive and charming 

 film. 



Respectfully submitted, 



L. M. Orne, 



Secretary 



