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the official organ of State Education. Local chapters have been founded here 

 and there, with a membership of over one hundred school children at Ellisville, 

 and local secretaries at the State University, and the two largest colleges report 

 excellent prospects for the winter. The secretary read at the annual meeting of 

 the State Teachers' Association a paper which was well received, and he has 

 already been engaged to conduct a course in bird study at one of the summer 

 Normal Schools during the summer of 1909. — Andrew Allison, Secretary. 



Nebraska. — While our Society has had no unusual growth in the year past, 

 we do notice a continued increase in interest in bird life and study. We held the 

 annual field-day with the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union at Childs Point, several 

 miles south of Omaha, it being one of the best regions for observation in the 

 state. At our request the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union have published a 

 field Check-list of common eastern, common western, rare and accidental species 

 reported in the state, some four hundred in all. Bird guides have been put into 

 the traveling libraries sent over the state by the Library Commission. The 

 increase of nature study in our schools results in the delight possible from an 

 acquaintance with birds, and makes them more and more appreciated. The 

 Public Library in this city will exhibit a collection of our common birds in spring 

 and fall plumage, together with their nests. Had we means to print and circulate 

 more literature, we believe that the children in the state might be incited to join 

 heartily in a movement to give wild birds more and better protection. — John 

 R. Towne, President. 



New Hampshire. — The work of the New Hampshire Audubon Society 

 during the past year has been chiefly educative. We have continued to circulate 

 literature, and have concentrated our attention on schools in the remoter rural 

 districts, supplying them with bird charts, pictures and books. 



In order to increase the circulation of the book 'Useful Birds and Their Pro- 

 tection, ' by Edward Howe Forbush, we have sent printed circulars describing 

 and recommending the book to the 300 librarians of New Hampshire. 



Arrangements have been made to insert in the leading newspaper of the 

 state Mr. Forbush's semi-monthly articles on bird protection and the work of 

 the Audubon Societies. At our annual meeting Mr. Forbush gave his lecture, 

 'What Birds Do for Man, and What Man Should Do for Birds. ' 



Mr. Abbott H. Thayer has written an 'Appeal to Sportsmen' in behalf of 

 the Ruffed Grouse, urging a five-year close period, and the Society has taken 

 measures to have this appeal published in the leading papers of the state. 



Through the solicitation of the Society, the lecture ' The Ministry of Birds, ' 

 by Dr. W. R. Lord, was included in the course given by the Manchester Insti- 

 tute of Arts and Sciences. 



The good news has come to us from the Fish and Game Commissioners 

 that there is already evidence that the law passed at the last session of the legis- 



