Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 359 



REPORTS OF AFFILIATED STATE SOCIETIES 

 AND OF BIRD CLUBS 



REPORTS OF STATE SOCIETIES 



California. — The fifteenth annual meeting was held in Los Angeles in June, 

 1921. A luncheon in the Men's City Club was followed by speeches from 

 members who represent different phases of bird- and nature-conservation. 

 Audubon Societies of three cities were represented, and the Chairman of Birds 

 and Wild Life in the Los Angeles District, California Federation of Women's 

 Clubs, Nature-Study Department in public schools, and the Wild Flower Club 

 of the Southwest Museum were heard from. All these organizations work 

 together. The Secretary's report gave a backward look of fifteen years, re- 

 calling the fact that in 1906, "of all our song-birds, only the Meadowlark was 

 given protection." Now we have very good laws, though in some parts of our 

 big state education is still badly needed. 



In legislative work, undesirable bills are becoming less frequent, thus 

 indicating a more intelligent pubHc than formerly when destructive bills were 

 common. The poor Roadrunner still needs to be understood, and not have 

 bounties aimed at him, also the Western Red-tailed Hawk. There was an 

 attempt to abohsh the Fish and Game Commission, placing the control of wild 

 life under the State Department of Agriculture, and making it depend upon 

 the State Legislature for funds. This Society sent letters of protest far and 

 wide and the Commission still functions. The Society also helped "save the 

 redwoods" besides giving true pubHcity to the water-power projects in Yellow- 

 stone and other National Parks. 



The usual number of leaflets were distributed. Lecture work with slides 

 and pictures and skins, also with field-study trips, are going on from the 

 monthly 'trail trips' of local societies in tens and hundreds, to the 'Nature 

 Guide Service' in Yosemite, where thousands on field-trips gain first-hand 

 information. Over 26,000 persons attended camp-fire talks and illustrated 

 lectures in Yosemite, according to the report of the California Fish and Game. 

 In laying down her work of twelve years, Mrs. Harriet Williams Myers promises 

 not to give up her interest or her lecture work for the Society. — ^(Miss) Helen 

 S. Pratt, Secretary. 



Connecticut. — The work of the Audubon Society, state of Connecticut, has 

 progressed evenly upon much the same lines as heretofore. Instead of creating 

 new libraries we have rebuilt many of those in circulation, being guarded in the 

 choice of books by the written reports of the teachers of the schools through 

 which the libraries are circulated. Notebooks for comment go with each 

 library. The State Board of Education, which handles the lectures, hbraries, 

 charts, etc., reports an increasing interest in all lines. A new set of slides of 

 'Wild Flowers and Berries' was sent out early in the year, illustrating the 



