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keeper for the same — a wise, patient person 

 — to see that the outfit is in order whenever 

 sent out, to 'chase it,' like the agent who 

 looks up run-away freight cars, when it 

 does not come home promptly, and to book 

 the applications for its use. 



This is all extremely arduous work, re- 

 quiring a knowledge of railway and express 

 routes, as well as accuracy and quick wits, 

 for engagements must be booked with due 

 regard to distances and locality; and many 

 frantic telegrams will be received saying 

 ' We expect the hall full to-night and the 

 outfit has not come' — this about four 

 o'clock in the afternoon and the place fifty 

 miles away. The right sort of manager 

 must be able to telegraph some cause for 

 detention or suggest a remedy. If the state 

 is a large one, there should be one head 

 office and several sub-stations in the various 

 counties, where the outfit may be kept a 

 month at a time for local use. 



When this free lecture has been heard 

 and seen at the public schools of a section 

 curiosity will awaken, and questions as to 

 the identity of birds will follow. Then 

 comes the opportunity for supplying the 

 teachers with the bird charts issued by the 

 Massachusetts Society. As interest grows, 

 and teachers and pupils alike begin to 

 query and think, the free libraries should 

 slip in to fill a demand that will be, if our 

 own experience counts for anything, un- 

 ending. 



Here in Connecticut, though much out- 

 side work has been done, the public school 

 is our chosen field, and the wise and hearty 

 cooperation of the State Board of Education 

 our greatest aid. 



It is through this Board that we now cir- 

 culate our material. Lectures, charts, 

 libraries — all free, and freely transported — 

 even as the money and labor that provided 

 the material was freely given. This fall, 

 when we asked if the interest in bird-work 

 continued, and if this material was still in 

 demand, the reply came — ' Give us more 

 books, more charts; we need one hundred 

 libraries and a chart for every school.' 

 Meanwhile, at the end of four years' ser- 

 vice, our three lectures, — one popular, one 

 economic, and addressed to farmers par- 



ticularly, and one for children, — are still 

 quietly working their way in remote places, 

 as it were, breaking the turf in unplowed 

 fields for the sowing of the knowledge whose 

 fruit is Bird Protection. — Mabel Osgood 

 Wright. 



Reports of Societies 



Sixth Annual Report of the Pennsylvania 

 Audubon Society 



On looking back over the past year of 

 Audubon work in Pennsylvania, I can see 

 that we have made steady progress. 



Over 9,000 circulars, 1,000 copies of the 

 bird laws and 200 United States Agricul- 

 tural Department circulars on shipment of 

 game were distributed during the year. 

 The membership has increased to over 

 7,000, in which sixty-two of the sixty-eight 

 counties of the state are represented. 



Miss Hilda Justice has continued in 

 charge of the traveling libraries with much 

 success. Twelve libraries of ten books have 

 been in circulation in the state, and have 

 been used in sixteen schools for twenty-nine 

 periods of three months each. Teachers 

 have written very appreciative letters re- 

 specting their use and the benefits derived 

 from them by the children. Any school 

 may obtain the use of a library by com- 

 municating with Miss Hilda Justice, 

 Clappier street, Germantown, Philadelphia. 



During the past year we have been in re- 

 ceipt of numerous complaints, relative to 

 illegal shooting of insectivorous birds, 

 notably Flickers and Robins, with the idea 

 that the officers of the society can cause the 

 arrest of the gunners. In order to show ex- 

 actly how these arrests can be obtained, we 

 would call the attention of our members to 

 the following: 



"The constable of each township or bor- 

 ough in Pennsylvania is the person author- 

 ized by law to arrest violators of the bird 

 laws, and he must make a report under oath 

 to the Court of Quarter Sessions of his 

 county at each term, of all violations oc- 

 curring in his township or brought to his 

 notice. 



"Members of the Audubon Society wish- 

 ing to have violators of the law arrested 



