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imaginations. There were also talks and lectures to Mothers’ Clubs and other 
Women’s Organizations, to Business Men’s Clubs, etc., and there seems 
to be no lack of enthusiasm or effort on the part of the devotees who convene 
once a month in the library of the Cuvier Club. 
When the General Federation of Women’s Clubs met in Cincinnati, last 
spring, the Society, through a committee, sent in an appeal to pass a resolution 
that these women shall give to Bird Preservation and Bird Study their most 
earnest consideration; and we are happy to record that the resolution was 
unanimously adopted. We hope that at the next Conference the Audubon 
Society will arrange to have some capable and interesting lecturer bring the 
matter more closely to their attention. When the demand for bird plumage 
shall cease, the supply will cease, and the birds be allowed to live in perfect 
peace. 
The field meetings grow more popular every year, and “The Ramblers” 
(an outgrowth of the Audubon Society and graduates of the University of 
Cincinnati), are open-eyed with wonder at the richness and variety of natural 
history that the hills of Ohio and Kentucky afford. 
As a result of legislation, an effort was made to protect the Heron, by 
itemizing such birds as are classified under the term ‘game-birds’ in the law. 
The contention in the courts of Ohio has been based on the possibility 
of the Heron’s being considered a ‘water-fowl.’ Not being among those 
named, it can no longer be placed in the same category with game-birds, and 
we hope this will effectually protect that bird in the future. 
. With the Chancellor of Germany, we believe “that the protection of ani- 
mals from cruelty is to be regarded not only as the outcome of a love of nature, 
but as a matter of moral education; and, with this end in view, the work of 
our Society, ever changing but never ending, is one that must always play 
an important part in the education and uplift of every community.—K ATHER- 
INE RATTERMANN, Secretary. 
Oklahoma.—The work of the Oklahoma Audubon Society for the past 
year has been mostly along educational lines. Bird literature has been intro- 
duced into public schools, and the result is that more birds are known, loved, 
respected and protected than ever before. Annual bird days have been cele- 
brated in many schools, and leading educators throughout the state heartily 
endorse the work of the Audubon Society. 
The state game law has been revised, and every person desiring to hunt 
game must pay a state license, and also obtain a permit from the owner of 
the land on which he desires to hunt. 
_ Many farmers, realizing that the Quail, the Meadowlark, the Dove, and 
many other birds, are of inestimable value to their crops, positively refuse 
to permit any hunting on their premises. 
The Audubon Society has been endorsed and commended by the State 
