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11. Ohio. Miss Clara Russell, 903 Paradrome street, Cincinnati. 
12. Pennsylvania. Mrs. Edward Robins, 114 South Twenty-first 
street, Philadelphia. 
13. Rhode Island. Mrs. H. P. Grant, Jr., 187 Bowen street, Prov- 
idence. 
14. West Virginia. Elizabeth I. Cummins, 1314 Chapline street, 
Wheeling. 
15. Wisconsin. Mrs. Geo. W. Peckham, 646 Marshall street, 
Milwaukee. 
16. California. Mrs. George S. Gay,.Redlands. 
17. Tennessee. Mrs. C. C. Conner, Ripley. 
18. Texas. Miss Cecile Seixas, 2008 Thirty-ninth street, Galveston.1 
It is to be hoped that in the near future this society 
will be able to extend its work to every state and terri- 
tory. Every large city should also have a society. 
Officers of the societies will do well to correspond with 
the teachers who have charge of the nature study work 
in the schools. 
All adults who continue to break the laws enacted 
for the protection of song birds should be warned, and 
prosecuted, if necessary. In states where no such laws 
exist, the society should see that they are enacted. It 
will also prove desirable to pass a law combining a Bird 
Day with the Arbor Day now observed in many states. 
TEXT OF THE MINNESOTA BIRD AND ARBOR DAY 
‘LAW, PASSED 1899 
“The governor is hereby authorized to set apart each 
year, by proclamation, one day to be designated as 
Arbor and Bird Day, and to request its observance by 
1 This list is taken from the October number of Bird Lore. 
