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seeds, vines, mosses, lichens, birds and their nests, butterflies, moths, insects, 

 frogs and bats. 



The Club divided into groups to make a special study of one subject dur- 

 ing the Slimmer months and then report. The fern group studied under the 

 direction of L. B. Cushman, who has a collection of at least twenty different 

 species of fern growing on his private grounds. Two high-school girls did 

 splendid work in the moth and butterfly field, having about fifty specimens 

 mounted and ready to exhibit and describe. The different stages of the worm 

 and the chrysalis, or cocoon, were also shown. 



Robert Cushman, an entomologist stationed in the Lake Erie fruit-belt 

 by the Government, spoke to the Club on the subject of 'Flowers and In- 

 sects.' Our Vice-President addressed the high-school students on 'The Pro- 

 tection of Our Songbirds.' The Club has placed two scientific magazines and 

 a book on 'Moths' in the pubHc library. 



Members of the Club who travel often give us observations from other 

 places, and word-pictures of Florida and the Adirondaeks were made much more 

 vivid to us by reason of our mutual knowledge of scientific terms. — (Miss) 

 Alice Moorhead, Secretary. 



Pasadena (Cal.) Audubon Society. — Our Society held seven meetings 

 during the year, about six weeks apart, one of them in the afternoon, five in 

 the evening, and the last was an all-day picnic outdoors. 



At the first meeting Mrs. Harriet WilKams Myers, Secretary of the Cali- 

 fornia Audubon Society, gave a talk on the recent progress of Audubon work; 

 Miss Alice Lockwood, of Sierra Madre, read a paper entitled, 'Our Feathered 

 Friends as Weed-Destroyers.' At the second meeting we had an illustrated 

 lecture on bird-life by Mrs. Granville Ross Pike, Bird Chairman for the Fed- 

 erated Clubs of the State of Washington, and lecturer for the National Associa- 

 tion of Audubon Societies. 



Wilfred Smith, one of the Directors of the California Audubon Society, 

 and at that time its Acting President, was the speaker at our third meeting, and 

 at our fourth, Mrs. Mary E. Hart, President of the Alaska Cruise Club, gave 

 us a lecture on the 'Customs and Superstitions of the Alaska Indians,' with 

 remarks upon the bird-Hfe of that country. Mrs. William Folger, formerly 

 president of the North Dakota Audubon Society, gave a delightful talk at 

 our fifth meeting on the birds about her Dakota home. 



At the sixth meeting, we enjoyed a talk by John J. Fredericks, Treasurer 

 of the California Audubon Society, on the subject of his then-recent work in 

 the cause of birds among the legislators at the state Capitol. The seventh 

 meeting was the picnic, where our entertainers were three members of the Los 

 Angeles Audubon Society. At all these meetings there were, besides the 

 above, prepared papers or informal talks, or both, by our members. 



Our Society has had made and placed on the roof of a tall bank building of 



