﻿State Reports 251 



Connecticut. — "The work of the Connecticut Audubon Society the 

 past year seems to have been chiefly in the line of making repairs. In one 

 more year we shall have completed our first decade of existence as a society, 

 and, naturally, our materials have become worn and have needed to be 

 replaced with new. This year we have put new books in place of many of 

 the well-thumbed ones in the fifty traveling libraries. We have replaced a 

 much used lantern for the lecture ; we have mended the boxes that hold 

 the lecture outfit, quite an expensive item, and we have increased the num- 

 bers of the portfolios of pictures. 



"The secretary of the State Board of Education paid our Executive 

 Committee a visit last spring for the purpose of inquiring if we could sug- 

 gest some way to use the traveling libraries during the summer, when the 

 schools are closed, as these libraries are primarily for the use of school chil- 

 dren. On our suggestion, he decided to send the books among the private 

 circulating libraries, as well as to the public libraries. 



" Mr. Hine also suggested that the secretary hire some one to accom- 

 pany the lectures, to read them and explain the pictures. This is a work we 

 hope to do in the near future. 



"The Executive Committee of the Society has held seven meetings dur- 

 ing the year, for the transaction of the Society's business. These meetings 

 have been well attended, and the members present often represent nine 

 towns in our state. By your consent the appropriations of moneys are made 

 by this Executive Committee and the work is planned by its members. 



"Last autumn the Society had presented to it the original steel plate 

 of a very fine portrait of John James Audubon. Engravings from this plate 

 are for sale for the benefit of the Society. 



"The Connecticut bird laws have been translated into Italian and 

 Hungarian, printed on large posters, and these posters have been sent out 

 and posted all over the parts of the state where these people live. Also 

 copies of the state bird laws in English have been sent to all granges in 

 the state. 



' The Society has contributed $20, as usual, to the Thayer Fund for 

 protecting our sea-birds. 



"The Executive Committee has appointed one of its members chairman 

 of a committee to take action in the remodeling of several bird laws during 

 the coming session of the Legislature. As noted at the last annual meeting 

 that the annual illustrated lecture for which the Society pays should go to 

 the town showing most work done for that Society in the year, and most 

 progress made, it is awarded to the town of Norwalk, which is most alive at 

 present in Audubon work. 



"Our membership this year has increased by 1,352, — 1,210 of this number 

 being associate members or children who have signed a pledge to protect 

 birds and who have received the buttons. This does not show so great an 



