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the successful culmination of our plan to send a lecturer into the field. Mr. 

 Henry Oldys, of Maryland, was selected for this task, and the choice proved 

 a most happy one. Through the generous financial cooperation of the National 

 Association, Mr. Oldys made a tour of the state covering four weeks in October 

 and November, 1913. This trip was so successful that he was engaged for a 

 similar lecture-tour in May of this year. He spoke to colleges, schools, women's 

 clubs and various societies. Mr. Oldys 'covered a wide territory, reaching sixty- 

 four towns, and addressing audiences aggregating about 30,000 persons. — 

 Bertha Traer Pattee, Secretary. 



Indiana. — The work during the past year has been along educational 

 lines. More than 100 Junior Audubon Classes have been organized, contain- 

 ing 1,914 members. Reading-matter and lectures about birds are much called 

 for by schools and clubs. Several stereopticon lectures on the subject have 

 been given by members of the state and local societies, to schools, churches, 

 conventions, women's clubs and farmers' institutes. The Extension Secretary, 

 Mrs. Etta S. Wilson, has worked faithfully, but since last April has been sadly 

 missed because of a serious illness. 



The Allen County Audubon Society, at Fort Wayne, is doing valuable work 

 under the leadership of Charles A. Stockbridge. It has a room in the public 

 library, which contains the Stockbridge collection of birds, and which serves 

 as a meeting-place, once a month. 



Articles in the newspapers, especially the agricultural ones, on feeding 

 birds in winter, have carried instruction on this subject to many homes. In 

 February, acting on a message received from the office of the National Asso- 

 ciation in New York, telegrams were sent over the state to bird-lovers, request- 

 ing that the birds be cared for at once. The club-women of the state are help- 

 ing nobly in bird-protection; one of the articles to appear soon in the General 

 Federation's magazine will be a history of the Indiana Audubon Society and 

 what it is doing. The Nature-Study Club of Indiana, with more than 100 

 members, is cooperating with us in doing work for the birds. 



The Annual Meeting at Evansville was a great success. The teachers, the 

 ladies of the Woman's Club, and the members of the Evansville Audubon 

 Society, did much to make it so. Harriet B. Audubon, of Louisville, grand- 

 daughter of the great naturalist, was invited to be the guest of honor. AU the 

 schools gave evidence of great preparation for the coming of the State Society. 

 Bird-boxes, bird-calendars, bird-stories, and many good paintings of birds 

 made by the pupils were shown. The little folks also contributed their share 

 by cutting, pasting, and stringing pictures of birds, to decorate the many 

 boughs that lined the entrance-halls. Bird-talks were given in the public and 

 parochial schools. Evansville has the largest Junior Class in the state. At 

 the Thursday and Friday evening meetings the following addresses were 

 given: "The Audubon Movement," by the President; "Some Birds of Indiana," 



