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Y. M. C. A., and at the Father and Son Gatherings of the Y. M. C. A. One 

 school superintendent borrowed all of the lectures during the year, using each 

 one three times in the two towns which he supervised. All of the loans show 

 an increase in circulation over the previous year. — (Mrs.) Mabel Osgood 

 Wrighi, President. 



District of Columbia. — Our twenty-second annual meeting was held on 

 the evening of January 28, the anniversary of Prof. W. W. Cooke's birthday, 

 a day we are always glad to remember. Dr. A. A. Allen, of Cornell University, 

 was the speaker of the evening, giving us his delightful, illustrated lecture on 

 "The Warblers." Another evening was spent at the Congressional Library, 

 looking over the large edition of Audubon's books. Dr. T. S. Palmer calling our 

 attention to many points of special interest in connection with different pictures. 

 Still another evening was spent at the Chevy Chase School examining Dr. 

 Prentiss' collection of bird-skins; this, I think, is the earliest collection made in 

 the District of Columbia. 



Mr. Shiras was anxious to have our Society undertake the regular feeding of 

 the Pigeons in one or more of our Public Parks as a memorial to ex-President 

 Roosevelt. This we have been striving to do. With the cooperation of some of 

 the supervisors and superintendents of the schools, we are trying to arouse our 

 school board to the importance of systematic bird-study in at least the fourth, 

 fifth, and sixth grades. The Chief of Police, Major Pullman, being one of our 

 vice-presidents, we were able, with his help and that of some of his aids, to 

 feed the quail in some of our outlying districts and thus preserve them during 

 the winter. 



On Decoration Day a number of us visited the graves of some of the orni- 

 thologists buried in the various cemeteries about Washington, and, owing to 

 the indefatigable zeal of Dr. Palmer, Mr. Jouy's grave was located. Mr. Jouy 

 made the second list of the birds of the District of Columbia. 



We had our usual five study classes, with as earnest a group of workers as 

 has ever attended. The average number present was fifty-eight. These were 

 followed by six delightful field meetings and 105 persons went on the walks 

 and 120 varieties of birds were seen. — Helen P. Childs, Secretary. 



East Tennessee. — Our most effective work is done at the Farmers' 

 Convention in May and the East Tennessee Division Fair, usually held the 

 second week in October. 



The accompanying photograph shows our latest exhibit, as conducted by 

 two gentlemen, Rev. McDonald and R. T. Alton, and two ladies, Mrs. Walter 

 Barton and Mrs. Karl E. Steinmetz. 



Through the kindness of a friend we had loaned to us a number of mounted 

 birds and a terra-cotta bird-bath. Mrs. Barton had some feeding-trays and 

 bird-houses made. She also demonstrated winter feeding by showing how to 



