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present protective statutes, and less in attempts to improve them. The details 
of the work there will be found in the report submitted by Field Agent Forbush. 
PUBLICATIONS 
During the year, seven leaflets have been issued: Special No. 22, Announce- 
ment to Southern Teachers; and the following Educational Leaflets: No. 41, 
Mockingbird; No. 42, Orchard Oriole; No. 43, Red-headed Woodpecker; No. 
No. 44, Franklin’s Gull; No. 45, Black-headed Grosbeak; No. 46, The Robin. 
The total number of copies printed was 242,000. A large amount of matter 
has been prepared for Brrp-Lore, and many thousands of our notices have 
appeared in the newspapers of the United States. The Game Wardens have 
been supplied with books containing colored illustrations and descriptions 
of birds, intended to aid them in gaining more accurate knowledge of the bird 
life of the regions which they guard. 
THE MARY DUTCHER MEMORIAL FUND 
During the month of June, one of our members, Mr. W. W. Grant, feeling 
that the friends of Mr. Dutcher would be glad of an opportunity to give tangible 
expression of the esteem in which he and his work for bird protection are held, 
held a conference with some others of like mind. As a result an invitation 
was issued asking for contributions for the establishment of a special endow- 
ment fund for the National Association of Audubon Societies, which should 
be known as the Mary Dutcher Memorial Fund, in memory of Mr. Dutcher’s 
only daughter. The responses were spontaneous and generous, $7,548 net hav- 
ing already been received. It is proposed that the interest on this fund be 
expended in such manner that definite results on the work carried on under 
it can be reported annually. 
THE SAGE FUND 
Some months ago, Mrs. Russell Sage gave to the National Association 
$500, to start a special fund for the protection of the Robin. A few days later 
she contributed $5,000, to be used in pushing the work of the Association in 
the southern states, and, at the same time, expressed her deep concern that 
the Robin, which is legally declared a game bird in some of the states, should 
be given adequate protection. As Mrs. Sage further states that she will pro- 
vide $5,000 annually for the next two years, it means that the Association will 
be able to institute and conduct a vigorous campaign for bird protection over 
a large territory, heretofore but scantily reached. . 
By these munificent contributions to the work of saving the wild birds 
of America, Mrs. Sage has won the gratitude of untold thousands of bird- and 
nature-lovers throughout the country. 
