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if carried, would have denuded our state of wild life. Because of the fight put 

 up by the organizations named above, and by the State, Fish and Game Com- 

 mission, this petition was withdrawn. 



In our share of the work we have been greatly aided by Mrs. Foster Elliot, 

 State Chairman of Forestry in the Federation of Woman's Clubs, who has 

 placed one of our sample ballots before every club in the state, and in recog- 

 nition of our work our State Secretary has been made a commissioner on the 

 forestry committee, and more than ever the two organizations will work 

 together. 



Besides this work, the usual number of leaflets have been distributed, and 

 more lectures than ever have been given under the auspices of the Society. 

 Dr. Joseph Grinnell, Dr. Harold Bryant, and Dr. Walter P. Taylor, of the 

 staff of the University Museum, gave illustrated lectures; and Mrs. C. Robin- 

 son has used bird-slides with her forestry-slides, in her lecturing, thus 

 extending the work to our advantage. 



Two deputy game-wardens have been appointed in Los Angeles County 

 to represent our Society, both of whom have done effective work. Miss Daisy 

 S. Ritterband is Deputy No. 8, and Mrs. Harriet W. Myers, No. 18.— Harriet 

 Williams Mvers, Secretary. 



Colorado. — The Colorado Audubon Society published^its first leaflet last 

 spring. It was written by the President, Edward R. Warren, and was entitled 

 "Birds of Prey." It was largely distributed in connection with an exhibition 

 of Owls and Hawks that the Audubon Society had at the Denver Stock Show, 

 with the intention of showing the farmers which Owls and Hawks were inju- 

 rious and which were really helpful. The collection of lantern-slides of birds 

 begun by the Society in 191 2 has been much enlarged, and has been much used 

 by high-school principals. Several lectures have been prepared by members 

 of the Society, to be used in connection with the slides. Lectures and talks 

 illustrated by slides or skins have also been given by the President, by the 

 Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. Bushee, and by Dr. Arnold and Miss Robbins, of 

 Colorado Springs, before schools and women's clubs.— Bertha Bushee, 

 Secretary. 



Connecticut. — This Society, organized in 1898, was reorganized as a 

 corporation empowered to hold real estate in June, 19 14. The first annual 

 meeting under the new constitution was held in the Memorial Library, in 

 Fairfield, on Saturday, October 17. A large and representative attendance was 

 present, and the president, Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright, presided. The reports 

 showed a marked increase in the interest in bird-protection, and that 1,395 

 Junior members were added during the year in Fairfield County alone. 



An illustrated lecture was given by Ernest Harold Baynes, to the delight 

 of all. After a lunch, served informally in the lecture-room, Birdcraft Sane- 



