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was instrumental in securing legislation in New Hampshire, Massachusetts 

 and Connecticut of the most advanced character; the legislative work in the 

 last-named state continuing over a period of five months. He gave a series 

 of educational lectures, reaching hundreds of people, many of them teachers. 

 He contributed to the literature of bird protection two of the most important 

 and valuable ornithological publications that have ever been presented to the 

 public, both of which will exert a great influence. He did yeoman service in 

 behalf of the Biological Survey, and has pushed Audubon work to the fore in 

 his territory by aggressive and progressive methods. 



Mr. Henry H. Kopman, one of the leading ornithologists of the Gulf states, 

 who commenced his services for this Association May 15 last, has accomplished 

 in a very short period results of great importance. He conducted a bird survey 

 on the Louisiana coast, west of the Mississippi delta, with results already pre- 

 sented in Bird-Lore, which paved the way for two additional reservations. 

 He has lectured before hundreds of planters in Mississippi at farmers' insti- 

 tutes, showing the importance of bird protection. He is now engaged in organizing 

 a Mississippi State Audubon Society, with every prospect of forming a strong 

 and influential body of the best citizens of the state. He has prepared and is 

 widely circulating a large amount of valuable educational matter, among the 

 most important of which is a series of papers regarding the value of birds, which 

 is appearing in the press of his section; and, finally, he is preparing an exhibit 

 of Audubon methods and literature for the Mississippi State Fair, which will 

 be seen by thousands of citizens and cannot fail to exert a great and far-reaching 

 good. 



Mr. William L. Finley, the well-known bird student and photographer 

 of the Northwest, has given us a small portion of his time during which he has 

 exerted a valuable influence in his section. He has contributed largely to the 

 press in Oregon and Washington, and has delivered many illustrated lectures 

 on bird subjects. He was instrumental in preventing the repeal of the Model 

 Law in Oregon. He aided very largely in the organization of the Washington 

 Audubon Society, and also gave a series of lectures under the auspices of the 

 Association before the Audubon Societies in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, 

 and Minnesota. His illustrated magazine articles on bird life attract wide- 

 spread attention and lead to a greater interest in the live bird and its home life. 



Miss Mary T. Moore, of North Carolina, who has lately joined the field 

 staff of this Association, has been conducting a series of farmers' meetings in 

 her home state, which cannot help but raise the standard of intelligent apprecia- 

 tion of the value of birds. The work she is doing is not merely economic, but 

 is of value in the homes of the people, as it reaches the fireside and interests 

 the mothers and children, thus attracting them to nature and her beauties. 



The foregoing represents a part of what was accomplished by the field-staff 

 during the past year, but there is no way to tell you in words of the beneficent 

 influence which is rapidly growing wherever the staff has worked! 



