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I DuTCHER, Report of Committee on Bird Protection. 14 1 



earnest body of Nature-lovers and students, too far removed from 

 vulgarity to contemplate with pleasure the wanton destruction of 

 any living creature. 



" From the auspicious inauguration of the Society until the 

 present time there has been a growing knowledge with the public 

 of the aims and purposes of the great Audubon movement, so that 

 inquiries concerning the whys and wherefores of the work are 

 rapidly diminishing in number. The demand now is not so much 

 ' Tell me something about this new Society," as ' Give me litera- 

 ture, that I may by this means tell others the story.' 



" The mails have been used hundreds of times for the purposes 

 of the Ohio work this past year, and the four newspapers that 

 are printed in English in Cincinnati, have received and kindly 

 published notices of all monthly meetings. 



''There has been a constant and impelling desire that the 

 teachers and club women of our State should receive our literature. 



" In November of last year, the Corresponding Secretary carried 

 a message to hundreds of women assembled at the State Feder- 

 ation of Women's Clubs in the city of Dayton, she having been 

 granted, by the courtesy of the President of that organization, ten 

 minutes' time upon the program of the convention, and in con- 

 junction with the Recording Secretary, who, by the way, did 

 splendid service at the same time in the public schools of Dayton 

 in behalf of Bird Protection, distributed much literature from that 

 point. 



"The President and acting Treasurer met the Game Commission 

 at the Cuvier Club, during the session of the Ohio Legislature, and 

 proved themselves extremely useful in making valuable suggestions 

 to the Commission relative to the proposed amendment of Section 

 6960 of the laws of Ohio, the section relating to the non-game 

 birds. 



" Our President originated and secured the passage of the bill 

 making it obligatory upon teachers to observe Forest and Bird 

 Day in the schools of the State. 



" Our Society is always represented in as many County Institutes 

 for Teachers as possible. If there cannot be personal represen- 

 tation, a message is sent. 



"A Branch Chapter is just forming this week in Cleveland, 



