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Bird -Lore 



President, Mr. John B. Henderson, Jr., 

 Washington, D. C. ; secretary, Mrs. Fred- 

 erick E. Town, Glencarlyn, Virginia. 



At a subsequent meeting the following 

 honorary vice-presidents were elected: 



Gen. S. S. Burdett, Glencarlyn, Vir- 

 ginia; Maj. Wm. M. King, Glencarlyn, 

 Virginia; Mr. Paul Bartsch, Washington, 

 D. C. ; Dr. T. S. Palmer, Washington, 

 D. C. 



Also, an executive committee was formed 

 consisting of Mr. Wm. C. Pennwitt, Chair- 

 man, Dr. Wm. M. Backus, Mr. Charles 

 H. Lane, Miss Mary L. King, Mrs. James 

 Plant and Miss E. V. Pennwitt, all of 

 Glencarlyn, Virginia. Miss Pennwitt was 

 appointed librarian. 



In addition a committee has been ap- 

 pointed to investigate the present status of 

 the laws of Virginia relating to the protec- 

 tion of birds. 



The Glencarlyn Society may be said to 

 be the outgrowth of a meeting of the Wash- 

 ington Society, held in the village by invi- 

 tation of the citizens, and is indebted to the 

 parent Society for a number of valuable do- 

 nations to its library. 



The new Society, it is hoped, will be a 

 thriving one, as the members are most en- 

 thusiastic, and the environment of the vil- 

 lage very favorable to bird-life. 



One field meeting was held under the 

 leadership of Mr. Bartsch. 



Juliet B. G. Town, Secretary. 



Florida Audubon Society 



Owing to the fact that many of the officers 

 and members of the Executive Committee of 

 the Florida Audubon Society are winter 

 residents of the state, meetings are not held 

 during the summer months, but the secre- 

 tary takes charge of the business in corre- 

 spondence with members of the Executive 

 Committee at the north. In Orange county 

 the School Committee have agreed that once 

 a week during the school term half-hour 

 bird-talks shall be given in the schools, 

 the Audubon Society giving one hundred 

 "Hints to Bird Study," published by the 

 Massachusetts Society as a text-book for 

 teachers. They also have Bulletin 54, sent 



by Dr. Palmer, while the Superintendent of 

 Schools is to aid us by giving talks on birds. 

 A bird chart of distinctly southern birds 

 would be of the greatest help and inspire 

 interest in the children. The American Or- 

 nithologists' Union sent us two hundred 

 printed posters of the laws of 1901 for bird 

 protection; many of these were posted in the 

 various towns near Maitland, while some 

 were sent to Audubon members at West 

 Palm Beach. Many more will be distributed 

 by our various officers throughout the state 

 early in December, before the tide of travel 

 begins. A parcel was sent to the west 

 coast this autumn, for in spite of all warnings 

 in September the rookery at Bird Key was 

 destroyed. Two hundred posters have been 

 sent to the Superintendents of the South- 

 ern Express Company, who have been in- 

 structed by President O'Brien to have them 

 in the most conspicuous places in the express 

 offices. 



The Society, since its organization in 1900, 

 has been dependent for all its leaflets on the 

 New York Society, but I take mjch pleas- 

 ure in reporting that in December the 

 Florida Audubon Society will send out 

 seven leaflets of its own, the manuscripts 

 being generously contributed by members 

 of the Society, the printing of the first edi- 

 tion being a gift from a member. We have 

 in these a letter to members of the Audubon 

 Society by our beloved president, the late 

 Rt. Rev. H. B. Whipple, Bishop of Min- 

 nesota ; a letter to the boys and girls of 

 the Audubon Society, by Mrs. Whipple; 

 Florida Birds Worth their Weight in Gold, 

 by Mr. Kirk Munroe, our honorary vice- 

 president; A Sudden Friendship, by Mrs. 

 Annie Trumbull Slosson, a vice-president; 

 reprinted from Bird-Lore by permission of 

 Mrs. Slosson and Mr. Chapman ; The 

 Rights of the Man Versus the Bird, by 

 Miss Rose E. Cleveland, also a vice-presi- 

 dent of the Society; John James Audubon, 

 by Mrs. Kingsmill Marrs, of the Executive 

 Committee, and also from her a leaflet 

 for little children, called Katie's Pledge. 

 We hope by these to arouse great interest 

 in our work during the coming winter. — 

 Mrs. Kingsmill Marrs, for Executi've 

 Committee. 



