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Mr. Charles Dury, our eminent naturalist, did much to make the last year's 

 series of meetings a memorable one, and as he discovered a unique specimen 

 in his collection of birds of this vicinity, he has added one more name to the fauna 

 of Ohio. He had taken the specimen at Ross Lake, April 5, 1880, and after 

 having overlooked it for twenty-six years, discovered recently that it was a 

 LeConte Sparrow. 



Thanks to Mr. Hodges, Librarian of the Public Library of the City of Cin- 

 cinnati, we had exhibitions of current literature at each meeting, with a short 

 talk by Mrs. Hermine Hansen, teacher of Zoology at Hughes High School, explan- 

 atory of each volume or pamphlet of such literature. 



The president and secretary conferred with Dr. Dyer, the Superintendent 

 of the Pubhc Schools of Cincinnati, about the distribution of Educational Leaflets. 

 Dr. Dyer was very enthusiastic, and thought the Leaflets should not only be dis- 

 tributed to the various schools, but were worth permanently preserving. He 

 advised our sending them to him in October, carefully arranged, so they may 

 be used as a part of the curriculum. This, we hope, will stimulate the students 

 to organize bird clubs, and that the coming year will see many of them estab- 

 hshed. 



We had a number of interesting field excursions this spring, and expect 

 to have many more next year, so we may have some personal experiences, as 

 well as the reminiscences of others, to remember and to record. Our enroll- 

 ment is increasing, our members are never lacking in enthusiasm, and we all 

 look forward to next year's meetings with delightful anticipation. — Miss M. 

 Katherine Rattermann, Secretary. 



Oklahoma. — The work of the Society for the past year, though seemingly 

 local, has been far-reaching in its results. About three thousand pages of litera- 

 ture have been distributed among the teachers, pupils and farmers of the terri- 

 tory, and while as yet but few auxiliary societies have been organized, the founda- 

 tion has been laid for more and better work in the future, and permanent organi- 

 zations throughout the new state. Bird-study has become a part of the common 

 school curriculum in some of our schools, and public sentiment in favor of birds 

 and their protection has been created all over the territory, which will surely 

 crystallize into stringent and effective laws at the next meeting of the legislature. 



Farmers' unions have taken effective action for the prevention of pot-hunters 

 and others from kilHng or trapping the Quail, the Mourning Dove, the Meadow- 

 lark and other birds, 



Guthrie, the capital of Oklahoma, has enacted strong and effective laws to 

 prevent the killing or trapping of birds, the robbing of their nests, or the exposure 

 or sale of bird eggs within the city limits. 



Two years ago one might have traveled all over a county and heard little or 

 nothing said about birds, their value or protection; but today one can enter 

 scarcely a farmhouse, a schoolhouse, or meet with any assembly of country 



