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New Hampshire. — The past year has been one of prosperity for our Society, 

 judging from the interest manifested in the work and the number of new 

 members gained, which has somewhat exceeded any previous year's record. 

 The work for the year has been the usual large amount of correspondence, the 

 distribution of bulletins and other literature, and general publicity work for the 

 Society, including an Audubon exhibit at the annual exhibition of the Institute 

 of Arts and Sciences held in May in the city of Manchester. 



We have also begun this year the publication of a quarterly bulletin dealing 

 with bird topics that relate more especially to the local field in our own state. 

 By this means the Society hopes to extend its usefulness by having an organ to 

 keep its members and friends informed of what is going on in the bird world 

 and enlist the interest and support of more of our people in the great cause 

 of bird-protection. — George C. Atwell, Secretary. 



New Jersey. — During the past year, while it has been, on account of the 

 prevailing retrenchment and economizing, difficult to maintain anything 

 approaching adequate membership of the Society, with the financing plan that 

 was put into effect two years ago, and by practising very strict economy, it 

 has been possible to avoid any financial crisis. The total receipts for the year, 

 including the $3,027.99 balance from last year, amounted to $8,259.70; total 

 disbursements, $5,802.26, leaving a balance of $2,457.44. There was, therefore, 

 a gain in receipts (including previous year's balance) of $265.41 over last year 

 and an increase in expenditure of $835.96. 



Doubtless the outstanding feature in the Society's general accomplishments 

 was the passage of the bill in the State Legislature removing the Bobolink, or 

 Reedbird, from the game-bird list to its proper place with song and insectivorous 

 birds, enjoying permanent protection. This bill faced an opposition, the power 

 of which only those who actively participated in the battle realized. Its 

 enactment can be ranked as only second to that of the plumage bill with which 

 the Society inaugurated its career in 191 1. 



In Junior Audubon Club work the Society again cooperated with the 

 National Association, 243 Clubs being organized in the schools of the state, 

 with 10,689 rnembers. New Jersey again ranking sixth among the states in 

 which the work was carried on. The various educational and cooperative lines 

 of the Society's activities showed very satisfactory development. The eleventh 

 annual meeting in Newark, October 11, was generally conceded to be the most 

 successful yet held. The business session was again held at the Newark Free 

 Public Library. Several interesting communications were presented, including 

 a telegram of feHcitation and good wishes from T. Gilbert Pearson on behalf of 

 the National Association of Audubon Societies. Dr. Henry van Dyke, on the 

 invitation of the President, made some informal remarks regarding bird- 

 protection, and interesting discussion of several pertinent subjects was had. 

 The incumbent Board of Trustees was reelected, with the exception of John T. 



