384 Bird - Lore 



Morgan, Corresponding Secretary; Miss Freeman, Goodwyn Institute, Treas- 

 urer. Up to the present time, the work done for bird protection has been chiefly 

 in the public schools among the teachers, and in the formation of Junior 

 Audubon Societies. Very nearly 1,800 pupils have been enrolled in these 

 classes. Great enthusiasm has been manifested by both teachers and 

 pupils. 



The Park Commission of all Memphis has shown great interest in the 

 subject of bird conservation. It has not only put a stop to the killing of birds 

 in the parks, but has erected bird-boxes after the pattern of the Berlepsch 

 models, and has established in Overton Park a Bird Refuge City, in which 

 bird tables for winter-feeding are placed, and attractive shubbery and trees 

 are found for nesting. 



Through the efforts of the Audubon Society, the Bolton College Agri- 

 cultural School has taken an interest in this subject. Junior Audubon classes 

 have been organized in the school; measures have been adopted for bird pro- 

 tection on the land belonging to the college, and its grounds have been made 

 .a game refuge. Mrs. Fayser Edmondson, near Whitehaven, has posted her 

 .grounds, and has made her farm a game refuge. In the heart of Memphis, 

 Mrs. P. C. Van Vleet has made of her beautiful grounds, covering several 

 acres, a Bird Refuge City. 



In November, 191 1, the Goodwyn Institute, under the auspices and with 

 the assistance of the National Association of Audubon Societies, will give 

 lectures, with stereopticon illustrations, on the subject of Bird Preservation, 

 for the purpose of instruction of the children of the schools, and the public 

 generally. 



In March next, the Goodwyn Institute will have several lectures by Pro- 

 lessor Schmucker, of Philadelphia, along the same lines. In November, a 

 movement will be made after the lectures, to enlist public support in the cause 

 ^of bird conservation, outside the schools. — R. B. Maury, M.D., President. 



Virginia. — -The Audubon Society of Virginia began its campaign last fall 

 "by an effort to reach the farmers and, from the utilitarian standpoint, interest 

 them in bird protection. 



Mr. Coiner, our Commissioner of Agriculture, kindly consented to give 

 us several pages in his Annual Agricultural and Industrial Report of the state. 

 This report reaches many thousands of the substantial rural population, a 

 class which reads cheerfully every publication in such a report. 



Our article entitled "Does It Pay to Protect the Birds" we feel was well 

 placed, and we trust we gained some friends for the birds. 



In February, we wrote to the supervisors of each county in the state asking 

 what laws they had relative to the killing of Robins. One state law permits 

 an open season of six weeks in the spring, but our counties may close the season 

 if they so elect. 



