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"The branch associations who have found time to report are as follows: 

 Bufialo, J. A. McNaught, secretary, 450 members; Saratoga, 50 mem- 

 bers; Manville, Miss Florence Christian, secretarj^ 50 members; Parkman, 

 Miss Amelia Mumm, secretary, 15 members; Chigwater, Louis C. Tid- 

 ball, secretary, 6 members; Sheridan, C. R. Atkinson, membership not 

 sent; Macfarland, Miss Macfarlane, membership not sent; Cheyenne, 

 Mrs. Cordelia Chivington, secretary, 1,200 members. 



"Early in the spring the children of the Cheyenne schools gave an 

 Audubon entertainment which was largely attended. 



"Our society is not incorporated, as we could derive no particular 

 benefit from incorporation. 



"We prefer to keep the financial side of our problem in the background. 

 Sale of buttons and contributions in small amounts from those interested 

 will pay postage when the officers feel unable to meet this item. 



"The 'fad' for collecting the eggs of birds seems to have no followers in 

 the state who are willing to exhibit their collections, as they did so insist- 

 ently three years ago. 



"For two years the use of birds for millinery purposes has been obsolete 

 in this state, the milliners taking great pains to show that the few bandeaux 

 offered for sale have been made from chicken feathers. 



"The law protecting birds and their nests in Wyoming can be found in 

 Sec. I, Chap. 37, Revised Statutes of Wyoming; and public opinion is such 

 that the law is pretty well enforced. 



"At the present writing I am not able to report very many local societies 

 for the protection of our birds; but public opinion is right, the hearts of the 

 children are right, and I venture to assert that in no state in the Union are 

 the Robins, Bobolinks and Larks as happy as in our Wyoming." 



From the following states and territories the National Committee have 

 nothing to report: Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, 

 New Mexico, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Washington and West 

 Virginia. The Audubon Societies in Maryland and Tennessee are such 

 merely in name, while in most of the other localities Audubon work has 

 never been started, owing to the small population. 



In Kansas and Washington, considerable preliminary work has been 

 done by the committee, but so far without much result. 



