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tion has all been laid out and awaits only 

 the approval of the Cornell authorities for 

 announcement. 



Among those who will take an active 

 part in the lecture work may be mentioned 

 Messrs. T. Gilbert Pearson, Herbert K. 

 Job, E. H. Forbush, Ernest Harold 

 Baynes, and Clinton G. Abbott, well- 

 known lecturers on birds; Louis Agassiz 

 Fuertes, Dr. A. K. Fisher, W. L. McAtee, 

 Bradford A. Scudder, and many others 

 equally well-known. The work on game- 

 breeding and preserving will be con- 



ducted by Messrs. Job, Rogers, MacVicar, 

 Burnham, Quarles, and others. From the 

 Cornell faculty will be drawn such men as 

 Dr. Arthur A. Allen, whose work in 

 economic ornithology is so well known; 

 Dr. J. G. Needham, the well-known 

 biologist, Prof. James E. Rice, and others. 

 Conservationists may well look upon the 

 work proposed as one of the most impor- 

 tant that has yet been undertaken in con- 

 nection with the national movement to 

 increase the country's wild life. 



BIRD LECTURES 



Herbert K. Job, of the Association's 

 Department of Applied Ornithology, 

 will devote part of his time this winter 

 and spring to giving public lectures, both 

 on general topics of wild bird-life and on 

 the practical aspects of attracting and 

 propagating wild birds and game. A 

 descriptive circular of these lectures will 

 be mailed, either by Mr. Job or from this 

 office, to those who desire it. The lectures 



are illustrated, either with motion pic- 

 tures or from Mr. Job's wonderful col- 

 lection of colored lantern-slides. All fees 

 received are used in support of the work 

 of this Assoication, and it is hoped that 

 these lectures will be in great demand by 

 our friends. Detailed information may be 

 obtained by writing Mr. Job at 291 Main 

 Street, West Haven, Conn. 



REPORTS OF AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



Audubon Society of Sewickley Valley (Pa.). — Birds in this valley have 

 noticeably multiplied since the organization of this Society on April 28, 19 14, 

 at the home of Mary Roberts Rinehart, and we feel that a goodly percentage 

 of credit in their increase is due to the efforts of our Society. 



Our activities for the past year include such efforts as interesting and educat- 

 ing the children through propaganda work in the schools; lectures for all ages; 

 field outings for every member; bringing together the members of two Audubon 

 Societies at a large annual dinner; and legislative work for the protection of 

 Herons and migratory birds. 



The work among the school-children has resulted in several Junior Audubon 

 classes, and in the springtime they made several excursions with their leaders 

 into the fields and woods. The study of birds is also included in the school 

 curriculum, and a practical turn is given to this study by the making of 

 bird-houses, of which over seventy were turned out by one school last 

 spring. 



A lecture in Sewickley, on November 17, by Mrs. S. Louise Patteson, of 

 Cleveland, on 'How to Have Bird Neighbors,' was of especial interest, as her 

 bird- and feeding-boxes were so simple that an unskilled child could make them. 



Mr. Oldys, from Washington, D. C, was again with us this spring, and gave 



