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the Board, recommended that the office of State Ornithologist 

 be established. We are glad to be able to say that the Legis- 

 lature paid heed to the general call which there seemed to 

 be for some more systematic and regular work on birds and 

 their protection, and established this office, under the direc- 

 tion of the State Board of Agriculture. It has been filled 

 during the part of the year remaining after the passage of 

 the legislation by Edward Howe Forbush, for many years 

 the unpaid ornithologist of the Board, and an extremely 

 careful and competent public official. We look to see so 

 much good work done on this subject by Mr. Forbush and 

 those whom he may interest that the work will increase from 

 year to year to such an extent that it may presently require 

 a much larger appropriation for its proper carrying on. 



Respectfully submitted, 



FREDERICK A. RUSSELL. 

 BURTON W. POTTER. 

 GEORGE W. TRULL. 

 J. LEWIS ELLSWORTH. 



