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it, and it refused to enact the reasonable and conservative Cat License Bill 

 introduced by this Society. 



As has been the case yearly, with few exceptions, since its organization, this 

 Society cooperated with the National Association in the Junior Audubon Class 

 work in the schools, and of these there were organized in New Jersey 222, with 

 a total membership of 9,281. The twelfth annual meeting of the Society was 

 held in Newark, October 10, 1922. The business session met as usual in the 

 Newark Free Public Library, by courtesy of the Newark Museum Association. 

 In addition to the regular address of the president, the reports of secretary and 

 treasurer, and the auditing committee were read and, reports were presented 

 on behalf of member organizations as follows: Ridgewood Audubon Society, 

 Newark Bird Club, Montclair Bird Club, Englewood Bird Club, and the 

 Chiakong Tribe of the Woodcraft League. A number of interesting communi- 

 cations were read, and a brief discussion of squirrels. Blue Jays and Screech 

 Owls versus song-birds took place. The previous Board of Trustees was, on 

 motion, unanimously reelected. 



The annual meeting of the Board of Trustees immediately followed that 

 of the Society, and at the same place. Routine business was transacted. 

 Legislative, Membership, and Publicity Committees appointed, and, on 

 motion, the incumbent officers were unanimously reelected. 



At the public session in the evening, in the auditorium of the Newark State 

 Normal School, Dr. Arthur A. Allen presented a particularly interesting, as 

 well as instructive, address on 'Birds in Their Relation to Man,' illustrated 

 by motion pictures, showing what birds do for man, and what man may do for 

 the birds. — Beecher S. Bowdish, Secretary. 



Ohio. — We had a new plan of program during the past year. It might 

 almost be said that our Society hibernated for the winter, coming back to 

 renewed life in February, from which time the work of spreading propaganda 

 for our feathered friends was attacked with 'vim, vigor, and victory.' The 

 meetings were largely attended and intensely enjoyed by all, for Mrs. Hansen's 

 delightfully informing talk in November, Prof. Harris M. Benedict's more 

 scientific address in February, and Mrs. Lewis Hopkins' scholarly paper read 

 before the Society in March, made up a program that may well cause any 

 Society to feel gratified. In April, Guy C. Caldwell, of Massachusetts, gave a 

 varied program, illustrated with beautiful colored slides showing trees, flowers, 

 and birds, and he imitated the songs of many of the latter. The Society spent 

 much of its surplus funds in. order to send Mr. Caldwell before the children 

 of the schools. In all, he addressed about ten thousand pupils, who received 

 him with great enthusiasm. 



Some of those who always deserve 'honorable mention' for work done in the 

 past year in behalf of bird-life, are our president, William C. Kramer, Miss 

 Dora Hargitt, and Miss Kate Sweeney. The Society shows a slow but steady 



