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instrumental in having the Congregational Church bring to the city Mrs. 

 Theron Colton, of Chicago, who gave an interesting and illuminating talk on 

 'Birds and Their Nests,' illustrating her lecture with some fifty specimens and 

 enlivening it with her interpretation of bird-calls. 



Many other activities, too numerous for mention, were carried on. As we of 

 the Vigo County Bird Club look back upon our first year's work, we feel most 

 happy at the results our efforts have obtained, and we look forward eagerly to 

 another year's work and study of the little feathered brothers. — (Mrs.) 

 Mildred Mesirow. 



Wellesley College (Mass.) Bird Club. — Our Club is only six months old, 

 but it combines with the enthusiasm of youth very definite purposes. Its 

 objects are to encourage the study of birds and to conserve and develop the 

 bird-life of the college grounds. The need of conservation was the immediate 

 motive for the organization of the Club, the restoration of the birds to the 

 campus being called for by the ravages of the gypsy moth. The Club was 

 organized early in the spring of 19 17 and was launched very happily upon its 

 course by Ernest Harold Baynes, with a lecture on 'Wild Bird Guests.' 



During the spring the Bird Club organized and conducted a series of early 

 morning bird-walks and kept posted on its bulletin board a record of spring 

 arrivals. Each member of the Club was provided with a check-list of the Mas- 

 sachusetts Audubon Society, and in several cases these lists included more than 

 70 birds observed. 



The Club is also working in close cooperation with the Faculty Committee 

 on the Conservation and Development of the College Grounds (one member 

 of this Committee being a member of the Executive Committee of the Club) . 

 This Committee, by means of a generous gift of an interested alumna, had, dur- 

 ing the preceding fall, established more than a dozen winter feeding-stations 

 at various points on the campus, and had erected posts for nearly 100 nesting- 

 boxes. The Bird Club was presented with 75 'Wellesley' bird-boxes by their 

 designer, John C. Lee, of Wellesley. In the care of these feeding-stations and of 

 the nesting-boxes, the Bird Club will render valuable assistance to the cause of 

 conservation. Already, in the first season, more than half the boxes were 

 occupied by nesting birds. 



The restoration of birds to the college grounds and their protection will be 

 an active stimulus to the study of birds. The Club, therefore, in its many plans 

 for the future, keeps steadily in mind measures that will assist in their conserva- 

 tion. It is their aim to make, each year, some permanent contribution to this 

 cause, such as a bird-bath, a drinking-fountain, or a bit of planting that will 

 provide both food and shelter. In this way the interest of the Club will find 

 permanent expression, and the beauty of the campus will be preserved and 

 increased for future generations, — -Madeline E, Almy, Secretary. 



