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Hartford (Conn.) Bird-Study Club. — The Club has proceeded on the even 

 tenor of its way during the past year, with about the usual number of indoor 

 and field meetings, and working along the same lines as in previous years. We 

 have to report, however, a ' forward movement ' in the inauguration of a series 

 of Saturday morning educational lectures, with slides and motion pictures, 

 for the school children. Three of these were given during the season in the 

 local motion-picture houses. At the first one, Clinton G. Abbott and Dr. 

 Grenfell were the double attraction. Dr. Robert C. Murphy, of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, gave the second lecture, on the ' Bird Colonies of 

 the South American Coast,' and it was our good fortune to secure Donald 

 MacMillan for the third, with his pictures of Arctic life, flora, and fauna. 



The children were intensely interested in all these lectures, and while they 

 were undertaken purely for educational purposes, a very small admission fee 

 being charged, financial returns were sufficient so that we were able to set aside 

 a fund as the basis of similar work in the future. It is proposed to give another 

 course during the coming winter, but on account of business conditions it will 

 probably be wise to cut down the number of lectures originally planned. 

 Several of our members who are teachers are also doing splendid bird- and 

 nature-study work in the schools, so we feel that the educational end of our 

 work is making good progress and justifying our existence as an organization, 

 while we are also as individuals deriving continued pleasure and instruction 

 from our talks and walks.^ — (Miss) Helen C. Beckwith, Secretary. 



Jackson County (Mich.) Audubon Society. — On July 5, 192 1, this Society 

 entered into the following agreement: That the Board of Directors be and 

 hereby are authorized to cooperate with H. L. Brown and the adjoining land- 

 owners in the northeast corner of Parma Township, Jackson County, and the 

 adjacent portions of Springport, Tompkins, and Sandstone Townships, in 

 establishing a bird- and game-reservation on said lands; and provided that 

 should such a reservation of at least 2,000 acres be established by agreements 

 signed by the owners for a period of three to five years, then the Board of 

 Directors are authorized to contribute in behalf of this Society, toward the 

 expense of providing signs, a sum not exceeding $50, but said sum is not to be 

 taken from the principal of the Kate Palmer legacy. This agreement was 

 signed by fifty -four land-owners, covering a tract of 15,000 acres, extending 

 5 miles north and south, and 4 miles east and west. Three hundred signs have 

 been placed in the hands of said owners of this reservation. Large signs are to 

 be placed on public highways leading into said reservation. They read: 



AUDUBON RESERVE 



No hunting. Trespassers will be prosecuted. This Reserve, 

 comprising 15,000 acres, extends along this road for 5 miles. 



There are lakes and marshy ponds on this land that make it a favorite resort 

 for several thousand Ducks. There are hundreds of Prairie Chickens and 



