Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 



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We appreciate the wise and vigorous leadership of the National Association 

 in this work. 



The Society is glad to report the cooperation and good will of the State 

 Fish and Game Commission and the Legislative Committee on Fisheries and 

 Game in all its work for legitimate bird-protection, as a result of which there 

 were few undesirable bills brought forward in state legislation and none passed. 



New sustaining members added during the year have totaled 298; life 

 members 95, making a total of sustaining members since the founding of the 

 Society of 3,486, life members 536. 



There was an average attendance of 1,500 at the annual lecture course, 

 the lecturers being Stanley Clisby Arthur, of Louisiana; William Lovell 



MUSEUM AND WARDEN HEADQUARTERS ON THE MASSACHUSETTS 

 AUDUBON SOCIETY BIRD SANCTUARY 



Finley, of Oregon; Norman McClintock, of Pennsylvania. Charles Crawford 

 Gorst gave whistling imitations at each lecture. 



At the great annual mass meeting in Tremont Temple, the speakers were 

 the Rev. Manley B. Townsend, Secretary of the New Hampshire State Audu- 

 bon Society, and Edward Howe Forbush, State Ornithologist. Charles E. 

 Moulton gave bird imitations. 



The multitude of varied activities annually reported have been vigorously 

 carried on. There is no space to enumerate them here. They have covered 

 not only the state, but in many instances have extended to the farthest corners 

 of the nation. — Winthrop Packard, Secretary-Treasurer . 



