The Audubon Societies 



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tion. The society was organized on March 

 II, 1902, at the State Normal and Indus- 

 trial College at Greensboro. It has since 

 been incorporated under the laws of the 

 state as the North Carolina Audubon So- 

 ciety, for the study of birds and the preser- 

 vation of game. Thus the object of the 

 Society is twofold : the protection of our 

 song-birds and the better enforcement of 

 such game regulations as we now have. 

 An attempt is being pushed to secure better 

 legislation in both these directions. 



The officers of the Society are: President, 

 J. Y. Joyner, state superintendent of pub- 

 lic Instruction, Raleigh ; vice-president, 

 Mr. W. H. Blair, president of the Peoples' 

 National Bank, Winston -Salem; secretary, 

 T. G. Pearson, Greensboro; and treasurer, 

 R. N. Wilson, Guilford College. 



There are four classes of membership. 

 Regular members, at a fee of twenty - five 

 cents annually, number at present about 

 three hundred; junior members, who pay 

 ten cents annually, amount to five hundred. 

 There are, besides, nearly fifty honorary 

 life members and sustaining members. 

 The life members come in on a single pay- 

 ment of f 10, while the sustaining members 

 support the Society to the extent of $5 each, 

 annually. That the membership continu- 

 ally increases is due to the enthusiastic 

 efforts of Mr. Pearson, the present secre- 

 tary, to whom the Society owes its organi- 

 zation, and who has from the first given it 

 a large share of his time and thought. 



There are branch societies in a number 

 of the city schools of the state, and a can- 

 vass of all the schools is to be undertaken 

 in time. It is proposed to put circulating 

 libraries of bird books into the rural schools 

 of the state wherever it can be done. A 

 considerable amount of literature in the 

 form of leaflets has been sent out, giving sta- 

 tistics and general information about birds. 

 Classification blanks and note - books as 

 aids to bird-study have also been distrib- 

 uted. We are glad to report that the 

 business men of the state, and especially 

 the sportsmen, are becoming interested, and 

 we hope to have more to report later. — R. 

 N. Wilson, Treasurer. 



After further interesting and helpful dis- 



cussion of various phases of Audubon work, 

 the committee adjourned, subject to the call 

 of the chairman. 



First Annual Report of the Audubon 

 Society of Vermont 



The first annual meeting of our Society 

 was held October 3. 



During the year regular meetings have 

 been held on the first Monday of each 

 month. The meetings have been well 

 attended and the programs both varied and 

 interesting. Meetings of the Executive 

 Board have been held after the regular 

 meetings, and whenever called to consider 

 and act on the business of the Society. 



In February, special meetings were ar- 

 ranged for the junior members, to be held 

 Wednesday afternoons once a month. The 

 school committee gave the use of certain 

 school rooms for the purpose. The meet- 

 ings have been very successful, and we 

 now have a large junior membership. A 

 number of bird walks have been taken 

 during the summer. They have been very 

 delightful excursions for those who could 

 attend them. Our local work has been 

 very satisfactory, and we feel that it has 

 created much interest in bird-study in our 

 town. Many people have remarked that 

 birds have increased in this vicinity since 

 the organization of the Society. 



Two traveling libraries, of nine volumes 

 each, have been secured ; some of the 

 books being donated, the others purchased. 

 These libraries have been sent out to the 

 district schools in the town, giving much 

 pleasure and stimulating interest in birds 

 and all nature-study. 



Our constitution and by-laws have been 

 printed, and we have sent out copies of 

 them, together with leaflets obtained from 

 the Massachusetts and New Hampshire 

 Audubon societies. Our state laws for 

 the protection of birds are very good, and 

 there is a general interest felt in the pro- 

 tection of song- as well as game-birds in 

 this part of the state. We have formed 

 two branch societies, one in Putney, the 

 other in Williamsville, and have made 

 efforts to form others throughout the 

 state. We hope the influence of our 



