448 Bird - Lore 



The Society also conducted a series of five illustrated lectures at Tremont 

 Temple, in Boston, on Saturday afternoons in March. At least 1,500 people 

 attended each of these lectures, which were illustrated with stereopticon and 

 moving pictures. The lecturers were Howard H. Cleaves, of New York; Prof. 

 Wells W. Cooke, of Washington; William L. Finley, of Oregon; and Louis 

 Agassiz Fuertes, of Ithaca, N. Y. 



Again at the annual mass meeting, held in Tremont Temple, 1,500 people 

 gathered to listen to reports of the work of the Society, another lecture by 

 Mr. Job, and bird-imitations by Charles C. Gorst. In addition, the secretary 

 has given lectures, to the number of sixty, all over the state before various 

 organizations, including many large school gatherings, on bird-protection and 

 the work of the State and National Audubon Societies. 



The Society investigated, during the year, the conditions at the various 

 lighthouses along the New England coast, fearing the great destruction to 

 bird-life which occurs in migration time at some lights. It is glad to state that 

 the lighthouse keepers reported no such destruction here. Dr. George W. Field, 

 the well-known biologist, offered the use of his large estate at Moose Hill, 

 Sharon, Mass., for a model bird-sanctuary, and the Society plans to so use the 

 estate, which is admirably adapted to the purpose. As the winter came on, the 

 Society joined with the National Association in placarding New England with 

 the request that people feed the birds. The response was immediate and most 

 effective. The Society prints, and distributes free, cloth posters for posting 

 land against shooting; and more than 2,000 were used last year. 



Local legislation has been carefully looked after and some bad bills were 

 defeated. An active part was taken in Federal legislation. The secretary 

 beUeves that the iniquitous proposal to give a month's spring-shooting of 

 water-fowl in the Southwest was defeated largely through the organized efforts 

 of the Massachusetts Audubon Society. It entered vigorously into the cam- 

 paign that led up to the enactment of the treaty with Canada, in which the 

 two countries join in protecting the migratory birds. 



In these and many other matters, the influence of the Society extends far 

 beyond the borders of the state. Its artistic Calendars and educational Charts, 

 for instance, have found sale this past year in nearly every state in the Union 

 and in Canada, and the secretary feels that in many ways, besides its work for 

 the state, the Massachusetts Audubon Society's influence has been a help to 

 that broader, greater work of national scope so well done by the National 

 Association. — Winihrop Packard, Secretary. 



Michigan Audubon Society. — A large amount of work was planned by 

 the officers of the Michigan Audubon Society for 19 16; but when in January 

 the president met with a serious accident, the effects of which confined her to 

 her couch for four months, and the secretary found it impossible to be away 

 from home for any length of time, the plans for active field-work had to be 



