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enforcement of this power is the belief of your committee, 

 and we stand ready to give any aid within our power in this 

 work. 



Your committee also feels impelled to say a word in praise 

 of the report on " Useful birds and their protection," by 

 Edward Howe Forbush, Ornithologist of the Board. Mr. 

 Forbush has put before the public the results of twenty-five 

 years of study and experience, in an attractive and instructive 

 form, without a cent of remuneration, but as the labor of a 

 public-spirited citizen, giving freely of knowledge of value to 

 the public. The report is generally admitted to be the most 

 attractive and valuable book put out by the Commonwealth 

 in years. Your committee joins heartily with the secretary 

 of the Board in the recommendation that the Board ask for 

 the establishment of the office of State Ornithologist, so that 

 this work may be carried on and amplified in future. 



AUGUSTUS PRATT. 

 JOHN M. DANFORTH. 

 WALTER D. ROSS. 

 W. C. JEWETT. 

 J. LEWIS ELLSWORTH. 



