384 Bird - Lore 



The Association helped employ three summer school instructors in bird- 

 study this past season. 



Mr. A. C. Webb, of Nashville, President of the Tennessee Ornithological 

 Society, was employed to give a course in bird-study at the Peabody Normal 

 College located at Nashville. 



Miss Alice L. Prichard, Supervisor of Primary Teachers of Savannah, gave 

 a three-weeks' course in bird-study at the University of Georgia, having an 

 enrollment of thirty-six students. 



A similar course was offered at the University of Colorado by Miss Edna 

 L. Johnson of the University. This included field-work and laboratory lectures. 

 Her class numbered fourteen students. 



JUNIOR AUDUBON SOCIETIES 



All previous records in the organization of Junior Audubon Classes were 

 broken the past year. Early in the season teachers began to send in the 

 children's fees in larger numbers than usual. Before the spring had far advanced 

 the 200,000 sets of literature, bird pictures, and Audubon buttons prepared 

 for the year's work became exhausted. Reports from newly organized Junior 

 Clubs continued to pour in by the dozen, by the score, and even by the hundred. 

 Eighty thousand sets of leaflets and pictures left over from previous years were 

 brought out of storage and were readily accepted by pupils and teachers in 

 lieu of this year's material. By the middle of May all possible sources of supplies 

 had been exhausted and regretfully we began returning to the disappointed 

 children their lo-cent fees. They had been invited to join the Audubon Society 

 and when they tried to do so the Audubon Society was unable to accept them. 

 For some weeks following, one thousand children a day, on an average, were 

 turned away. Your Secretary had seen this condition approaching and had 

 earnestly sought to secure funds with which to print more leaflets but with 

 small success. In this connection it should be borne in mind that it has always 

 cost the Association about 20 cents to supply the necessary material to every 

 Junior Member and that the child who seeks membership pays only 10 cents. 

 Our ever-generous and unknown Benefactor again gave $20,000 to this cause 

 the past year. With a total of $27,500 we were able to collect for the Junior 

 work, we enrolled and provided supplies to 280,963 children in the United 

 States and Canada. I regret to state that collections for the coming school 

 year have not thus far been as good as last, and the prospects are now that 

 little more than two-thirds as many children can be supplied this year as last. 

 To those who may see this report and who seeing care for children and the 

 birds, let me remind them that for every gift of $100 for this work about 1,000 

 children will be able to join the Audubon Society, wear its button, study its 

 lessons, and learn many worth-while facts concerning the wild-bird life about 

 them. 



