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than 10,000 children. During the year just closing her audiences have totaled 

 more than 20,000. In 1919-20, 102 Junior Audubon Classes, with a membership 

 of 3,023 were formed for six to ten weeks' study in the schools, because of the 

 interest created by Mrs. Sage in her talks to the pupils. This year 142 classes 

 have been organized, with a membership of 4,269. A great number of talks 

 have been given, by request, in private houses to groups of members, to clubs 

 and associations such as the Home Bureau, the State Institute of Applied 

 Agriculture at Farmingdale, at the Children's Home in Mineola, to the Wom- 

 en's Club in Great Neck, and in a number of the parochial schools. 



"Gratifying as this increase in numbers is, even more so is the increased 

 interest shown by all sorts of people, and which can only be known to the 

 officers who receive the requests for information of every kind and the ex- 

 pressions of appreciation for service rendered. Much information has been 

 sent out in regard to planting for the attraction and protection of birds, di- 

 rections for the placing of nesting-boxes and winter feeding. Several hundred 

 placards have been issued stating the law concerning the sale and carrying of 

 weapons and the list of protected birds. These have been welcomed by the 

 schools and game wardens, and have been hung in post offices and railway 

 stations." 



Since the annual meeting of the Bird Club in June I have given six more 

 talks, which makes a total, since the last meeting of the Association, of 180 

 talks and lectures. 



