lOO Report of Committee oti Bird Protection. Ff"^ 



Minnesota. 



Mr. T. A. Abbott, Secretary of the Minnesota Society for the 

 Prevention of Cruelty, writes : " An Audubon Society has been 

 started and partly organized here, but a full list of officers has not 

 as yet been named, but will be chosen at the November meeting. 



" The Local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty has about 

 400 members, and has had printed and posted in conspicuous 

 places throughout the city and suburbs notices warning all persons 

 against killing wild birds. The study of birds has been taken up 

 in some of the schools in connection with humane societies estab- 

 lished among the children, but this is the work of individual 

 teachers and has not as yet been generally taken up, though I 

 hope it will be. No formal or organized effort has been made 

 towards establishing Bird Day in the schools, though certain 

 teachers have attempted to add something in the way of instruc- 

 tion in the exercises of Arbor Day." 



Miss Bertha L. Wilson, Supervisor of Nature lessons in Minne- 

 apolis, writes : " During the past year we have introduced the 

 study of birds into our public school system ; indeed, the primary 

 grades have studied them for several years. Although we have 

 no regular Bird Day, I may say that all the spring days, from 

 Easter on, are Bird Day ; then also in the fall. Although we pay 

 more attention to insects, we refer to the migration of birds and 

 speak of them often. I can safely say that many of the teachers, 

 as well as the children, are really interested in this subject. The 

 State law is generally enforced in regard to game birds on their 

 breeding ground, but I think very little attention is paid to the 

 protection of small birds, and I think many useful ones with their 

 nests are destroyed by boys and would-be collectors." 



Iowa. 



A great deal of good work has been done in Iowa, principally, 

 however, by individuals, as no State Audubon Society has as yet 

 been formed. Mr. M. H. Leitner of Sioux City, Iowa, wrote in 

 August for the literature of the Audubon Societies, and said : " I 

 am very much interested in the bird questions of to-day. I am 



