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Albany, Rotterdam, Mechanicsville, Alplaus, Round Lake, Niskayuna, Troy 

 Boys' Club, Carman, Oneonta, Schuylerville, Berkshire Industrial School, 

 Solvay, Syracuse, Plattsburg, West Chazy, Rouse's Point, Peru, Clyde, 

 Corona, South Ozone, and many schools in the Bronx, New York City. 



On October 15, 1917, 1 began the season's work by speaking at Public School 

 No. 44, Bronx, and since that date have given seventeen illustrated lectures in 

 the Bronx schools. One day, at the request of the Principal, I gave four talks 

 and had an audience totaling 1,800 pupils. I have been asked to return to 

 speak to some of the lower grades, as all the children cannot be in the Assembly 

 Room at one time, some of the schools having over 3,000 pupils. I have a 

 number of appointments to speak in the Bronx schools, also in Brooklyn and 

 other places on Long Island. 



I gave three talks to the Nature Class at the Normal School, Oneonta, the 

 nature-study teacher being desirous that her teachers learn all they could so as 

 to be able to present it properly when given schools. When I went to Platts- 

 burg and Rouse's Point it was very cold, snow lying deep everywhere, trains 

 late and appointments hard to keep on time, but the people were always there 

 and waited patiently for trains and the speaker. It certainly paid, although 

 it was a most strenuous trip. One cannot help but feel encouraged the way the 

 work is welcomed. The schools of Greater New York seem to feel as enthusi- 

 astic as the smaller places where the birds can be seen and studied first-hand. 



During the year I have given 143 public talks and lectures and reached in 

 this way over 25,000 teachers and pupils. 



REPORT OF MRS. GRANVILLE PIKE, SPECIAL AGENT 

 FOR WASHINGTON 



In the matter of bird-conservation Washington is no longer in the race 

 for lowest place. Busied she still is with the foundation tasks of empire build- 

 ing, but she is rapidly coming to realize that the saving of natural assets is 

 quite as important as accomplishments in production and construction. 



A large proportion of any credit claimed may justly be given to the State 

 Federation of Women's Clubs which, in the absence of a State Audubon Society, 

 has for two years fostered this movement. 



Early and full recognition should be given to the stimulating effect of 

 assistance from the National Association of Audubon Societies which supplied 

 the services of a field worker for three months and made possible the enroll- 

 ment of 14,696 Junior Audubon members. 



If the eastern givers, who generously finance such campaigns, could have 

 followed the course of this — one day in the tense, alert, crowded auditorum of 

 the city, the next in the isolated appreciative one- or two-room rural school — 

 they would realize \vith joy that they have made a worth-while investment. 



One day there was, outstanding and distinct in its experiences, when a 



