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leaflets whose pages are filled with accurate 

 descriptions of birds; we supply teachers 

 and schools applying for them with charts 

 on which are correct representations, 

 beautifully colored, of many familiar 

 birds; and we endeavor to keep in touch 

 with the children seeking to obtain this 

 help by getting them to become pledge 

 members, by which they promise or 

 pledge themselves not to molest or harm 

 birds, or their nests or eggs. We supply 

 sheriffs and game wardens with cloth 

 warnings, or with leaflets of the game- 

 law, and in neat card form the laws have 

 been condensed for posting in hotels, 

 stations and post-oflices. Any of these may 

 be had by addressing the secretary of the 

 Florida Audubon Society, at Maitland. 

 We have this year added to our list per- 

 haps our most valuable leaflet. The 

 Economic Value of Birds to the Farmer 

 and Fruit Grower. Its author is our 

 President, William Fremont Blackman, 

 Ph.D., LL. D. This should be read by 

 every farmer and fruit grower in the state. 



The following are the present officers 

 of the society: William F. Blackman, 

 President; Mrs. I. Vanderpool, Maitland, 

 Secretary; Mrs. L. P. Bronson, Maitland, 

 Treasurer; L. F. Dommerich, Maitland, 

 Honorary President for life. Vice-Presi- 

 dents: Miss Maria R. Audubon, Salem, 

 New York; Pres. Lincoln HuUey, DeLand; 

 Mrs. H. B. Whipple, Maitland; George 

 N. Chamberlin, Daytona; Frank M. 

 Chapman, New York; Wm. C. Comstock 

 Winter Park; Rt. Rev. Wm. C. Gray, 

 D.D., Orlando; C. H. Morse, Winter 

 Park; E. O. Painter, Jacksonville, Dr. T. S. 

 Palmer, Washington, D. C. 



Executive Committee: Mrs. Kingsmill 

 iMarrs, Maitland, chairman; Mrs. W. F. 

 Blackman, Winter Park; George N. 

 Chamberlain, Daytona; Mrs. E. E. Coul- 

 son, Bradentown; Mrs. George D. Dyer, 

 Winter Park; Mrs. Algernon Haden, 

 j Orlando; Mrs. Marian A. Mcx^dow, Punta 

 ; Gorda; S. M. Mclntyre, Altamonte 

 "Springs; Mrs. E. M. Massey, Maitland; 

 j'Mrs. C. H. Morse, Winter Park; Dr. H. R. 

 I'Mills, State Board of Health, Jackson- 

 ; Mrs. Kirk Munroe, Cocoanut Grove; 



Prof. Henry Nehrling, Gotha; W. R. 

 O'Neal, Orlando; W. C. Temple, Winter 

 Park; Mrs. Katherine Tippets, St. Peters- 

 burg; Judge T. Picton Warlow, Orlando. 

 — Mrs. Isa.-\c Vanderpool, Secretary. 



Indiana Audubon Society 



The fifteenth annual meeting of the 

 Indiana Audubon Society was held at 

 Madison, Indiana, May 9, 10, 11, 191 2. 

 Dr. D. W. Dennis of Earlham College, 

 the President, opened the first session, 

 Thursday, in the High School. Music 

 was furnished by the school children of 

 grammar grades. 



Friday morning, a bird tramp was 

 taken, led by Dr. Dennis, .^t nine o'clock, 

 talks on birds were given in the schools 

 by William Watson Woollen, Miss Florence 

 H. Howe, Mrs. Etta Wilson, and Miss 

 Elizabeth Downhour. 



At eleven o'clock, the society held a 

 business meeting in the parlors of the 

 Jefferson Hotel. A telegram of greetings 

 was read from the National Association 

 of Audubon Societies, also a letter from 

 our former president, Mr. Amos W. Butler, 

 who has spent the winter at New Smyrna, 

 Florida. This was the first annual meet- 

 ing of the society from which Mr. Butler 

 has been absent, and his support and 

 helpful suggestions were keenly missed. 

 The society sent a letter of greetings to 

 Mr. Butler, and a telegram of good will 

 to the National Association. 



Mrs. Etta Wilson, extension secretary, 

 has done good work for the birds over the 

 state, talking to women's clubs and chil- 

 dren of public schools. 



A motion was made and carried to 

 provide a circulating library of a few 

 bird books to be sent to the towns or 

 cities having Junior Audubon Societies. 

 These books may be kept two months. 

 The women's clubs have been asked to 

 give one day of their program to the 

 study of birds this year. 



Officers elected for the coming year: 

 President, Dr. D. W. Dennis, Earlham 

 College, Ind; First Vice-President, Hon. 

 Joseph M. Cravens, Madison, Ind.; 



