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have been a source of delight in districts where such books are not easily 

 obtained or cannot well be afforded. The traveling lecture, with stere- 

 opticon, has carried instruction and entertainment to similar places, as in 

 previous years, and a new lecture, ' The Economic Value of Birds of the 

 State,' to be loaned on request, has been added to our stock. 



' Bird charts and pictures have been furnished to schools not able to 

 purchase them. The magazine, Bird-Lore, has been placed in the Man- 

 chester City Library and the Boys' Reading Room, recently established. In 

 accordance with the urgent request of the National Association, our Society 

 expressed its approval and endorsement of three bills then pending in the 

 national legislature; namely, the bill for a ' National Forest Reservation in 

 the White Mountains,' endorsed and strongly urged by the Society for the 

 Protection of New Hampshire Forests, the bills of Senator Gallinger and 

 Representative Babcock, ' To prohibit the killing of wild birds and animals 

 in the District of Columbia,' and a bill before the Senate Committee on 

 Forest Reservations for ' The Protection of Animals, Birds and Fish in the 

 Forest Reserves.' In these three cases our Society authorized the secretary 

 to communicate with the New Hampshire delegation in Congress and with 

 the proper Congressional Committee. 



"The Society has made the following contributions: $25 to the Mrs. 

 Guy Ivi. Bradley Fund; $25 to the National Association. We have received 

 two legacies of fifty dollars each. The prizes offered two years since in the 

 ungraded schools for the greatest improvement in schoolhouse grounds are 

 to be awarded this fall. The Society called for photographs of the surround- 

 ings previous to the beginning of the improvements, and it is hoped that 

 photographs to be taken at the close of this season will show that earnest 

 effort has been made to render these surroundings more beautiful and 

 attractive. 



' The secretary hopes that this report may be sufficient proof that the 

 New Hampshire Audubon Society is neither 'on the ebb' nor stationary, 

 but is fulfilling its avowed mission as a barrier between wild birds and a very 

 large unthinking class of people, and a smaller but more harmful class of 

 selfish people. 



"An indication of the sustained public interest in birds and their protec- 

 tion is the fact that, through the influence of our Society, Mr. Herbert K. 

 Job's lecture 'Among the Egrets with Warden Bradley,' and Mr. William 

 T. Finley's lecture 'Among the Sea Birds off the Oregon Coast ' are to 

 be given this winter under the auspices of the Manchester Institute of 

 Arts and Sciences." — Mrs. F. W. Batchelder, Secretary. 



New Jersey. — "Accounts of our work in New Jersey differ very little 

 from year to year. Our membership increases but slowly, the gain being 

 chiefly among the children. No one can doubt, however, that there is a 



