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representatives, those bills that will be, either directly or indirectly, a protection 

 to birds and other wild animals. Conspicuous among these, to which favorable 

 replies have been received, is the bill that takes action against commercial 

 concessions in the Roosevelt-Sequoia National Park, and another is an appro- 

 priation bill providing a Federal forest experimental station in the San Jacinto 

 Mountains in California, in cooperation with the University of California. — 

 (Miss) Alice W. Pitman, Secretary. 



Province of Quebec (Can.) Society for the Protection of Birds. — Seven 

 general meetings were held during the year for the members and interested 

 friends. The opening meeting was at McGill University, during Centenary 

 Week, when the speaker was Dr. Casey A. Wood, the recent donor to McGill's 

 Library of the splendid collection of 900 volumes devoted to birds known as 

 the 'Emma Shearer Wood Library of Ornithology.' At the annual meeting 

 in January, Wallace H. Robb, investigatory officer for the Society, gave an 

 illustrated account of his summer trip to the Magdalen Islands with Herbert 

 K. Job, of the National Association of Audubon Societies. 



In February, Miss Edith L. Marsh of 'Peasmarsh' spoke on the private 

 sanctuary. Miss Marsh's sanctuary, on the shores of Georgian Bay, was one 

 of the first private wild-life sanctuaries in Canada, and was set aside recently 

 as such by the provincial government of Ontario at the request of the owner. 

 Other speakers were the president, L. Mel. Terrill; the vice-president, Napier 

 Smith, of Magog, Quebec; H. Mousley, Naturalist of Hatley, Quebec; W. A. 

 Oswald, and W. Gordon Wright. 



The annual public lecture in March was given by Stuart L. Thompson, of 

 Toronto, who held the close attention of a very large audience. The following 

 morning his son spoke to over four thousand of the Junior Members in the 

 Imperial Theatre. Mr. Thompson also delivered two lectures to pupils in the 

 Montreal high school. Addresses to both children and adults were given by 

 members throughout the year in schools, summer camps, and in nearby towns. 



Bird Clubs were established at the Boys' Farm and Training School at 

 Shawbridge, Quebec. In the early spring, the Society arranged for an exhibition 

 of specimens of migratory birds from the Wild Life Division of the Canadian 

 National Parks. This exhibition was kept two weeks in a prominent window 

 in the downtown business district, and two weeks in the uptown shopping 

 center. Eighteen specimens of birds were on exhibition. These birds were 

 confiscated under the Migration Birds Convention Act. 



During the year a commencement has been made towards a slide library. 

 The Society has also acquired its own lantern. More sanctuaries for the 

 province have been urged upon the provincial government, and a campaign 

 is under way to encourage more of the smaller private sanctuaries which are 

 so valuable. A great feature of the plan has been the increased press interest. — 

 (Mrs.) W. C. L. Dyer, Hon. Corresponding Secretary. 



