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Circumstances obliged me to resign after having served but one 

 year of my second term, but Vermont still has a director, Mr. Carlton D. 

 Howe having been elected to the vacancy. He will need the hearty 

 cooperation of every member of the Bird Club in educational lines, 

 and it may be to uphold his hands in more strenuous times, should 

 adverse sentiment assail our legislative halls as it did last year. 

 When a right understanding of the true value of our bird life to the 

 welfare of our country is universal, we shall not need to fear the enact- 

 ment of unwise laws, and we each have a duty to hasten this happy 

 time, by untiring effort into which we must put mind and heart. 



Mr. Butcher quotes this pertinent paragraph from Phillips Brooks: 



"It means something that, in the disorders of thought and 

 feeling, so many men are fleeing to the study of ordinary nature, and 

 it is rest and comfort. Whatever men are feeling, the seasons come 

 and go. Whatever men are doubting, the rock is firm under their 

 feet, and the steadfast stars pass in their course overhead. Men who 

 dare count on nothing else, may still count on the tree's blossoming and 

 the grape's coloring. It is good for a man perplexed and lost among 

 many thoughts to come into closer intercourse with nature, and to 

 learn her ways and to catch her spirit. It is no fancy to believe that 

 if the children of this generation are taught a great deal more than we 

 used to be taught of nature, and the ways of God in nature, they 

 will be provided with the material for far happier, healthier and 

 less perplexed and anxious lives than most of us are living." 



Dr. A. J. Allen in reviewing the President's Report, says in part, 

 (January Auk, p. 102), although the association has a large endow- 

 ment, its income is far too short for its needs, which as "its work 

 broadens, necessarily, steadily increases. The work already accom- 

 plished in the short period of its existence is astonishing; the activities 

 of its president, his resourcefulness in discovering new lines of use- 

 fulness, his promptness in action in cases of emergency, and his un- 

 selfish devotion to the great cause he has thus far so successfully 

 promoted, are a sufficient warrant for a most urgent appeal that his 

 hands be further strengthened by additional financial aid for the work 

 that must necessarily devolve upon the Association from year to year 

 as its work advances." 



BIRD LIST, 1907, BRATTLEBORO AND VICINITY. 



W. C. HORTON AND H. L. PiPER. 



The list contains the names of 109 species of birds. The resident 

 birds seen were chickadee, goldfinch, bluejay. red-breasted nuthatch^ 



