286 Bird - Lore 
Mrs. Johnson read selections from many letters both from teachers and 
pupils, expressing appreciation of our various traveling outfits. 
The Secretary of Schools reports the interest in Audubon work to be con- 
centrated in comparatively few places, in spite of the fact that the state has 
thirty-five local secretaries. The advantage of having school teachers and 
superintendents as local secretaries was aptly illustrated by the fine report 
sent Miss Hurd by Lewis Sprague Mills, State Agent in School Supervision, 
acting in the towns of Avon, Beacon Falls, Bethlehem, Middlebury, Prospect 
and Sprague,—six towns in four counties. It is his custom, each time when 
visiting a school, to give a short talk on something of seasonal interest in which 
he feels the children will be interested. 
Five hundred and sixty-one new members have been added during the 
last year. 
The Game Warden reports an increasing respect for the laws, even though 
in some quarters the foreign element destroy song-birds, though well aware 
of the law concerning them. 
Herbert K. Job, the recently appointed State Ornithologist, filled the 
afternoon session with a talk entitled “The Charm and Value of Wild Birds.” 
He also outlined some of the state work planned for the coming year, an inter- 
esting feature being the publication of a monthly newspaper syndicate letter 
concerning birds, their protection and study, taken from every standpoint.— 
Mase Oscoop Wricut, President. 
District of Columbia.—Nothing of especial note has taken place in our 
Society this year. We have had our usual Field Meetings, six in number, 
with a total attendance of one hundred and four persons, fifty-six of whom 
had never been on our walks before. This seemed to us a most encouraging 
sign of increasing interest in the work of our Society. On one of these walks one 
hundred and seven varieties of birds were noted. Previous to the walks we 
had a bird-study class of seventy members, the class being divided into two 
sections, one for beginners, the other for more advanced students. A lecture 
on migration was given by Prof. W. W. Cooke, at the last meeting of the class. 
During the year, we have had several free public lectures, delivered by 
prominent ornithologists. 
With the United States Biological Survey in our midst, we have many 
opportunities of learning the work of bird protection in this and other 
countries. Our Society has taken advantage of these facts, and Dr. Henry 
‘Oldys has edited three or four leaflets, under the title “Current Items of 
Interest,” copies of which have been sent to all the State Societies, and have 
seemed to be much appreciated by all who have seen them. They will be 
sent to any Society for the cost of printing, which is about four dollars for 
five hundred copies. It has been proposed that with each issue we should 
publish the list of the officers of the different Societies. The last issue had 
