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About fifteen measures, strengthening game-protection in various counties, 

 were enacted. — Minna D. Starr, Secretary. 



Massachusetts. — Since the last report our Society has gained 3,174 

 members. Our total membership is now 11,655, which includes 6,254 Junior 

 members. 



As usual, we have sent out many educational and other leaflets, warning 

 notices in English and Italian, and copies of the laws. Our three traveling 

 lectures and four traveling libraries have been in demand, while our bird- 

 charts and plates have continued to meet with a good sale. Through the 

 courtesy of Prof. Albert T. Morse, our charts, calendar-plates and leaflets 

 were exhibited at the Essex Institute. 



Our Society always takes a strong interest in legislation and this year 

 has not been an exception. Fewer cases of violations of law have been reported 

 than usual. 



Cards urging women not to wear aigrettes, and some giving the address 

 of the Society and inviting people to join it were placed in the street-cars 

 for two months. 



Letters were sent to the women's clubs in the hope of enlisting their interest 

 and gaining members. 



Early in the year we learned that one of our members had proved her 

 interest in our work by giving us a legacy. 



In March we received an invitation from the National Association to 

 join in their movement to start Junior Classes in the schools, v/hich we accepted 

 with pleasure. It has proved to be one of the most successful plans we have 

 ever tried. We were able to report ninety-two classes to Secretary Pearson 

 before school closed in June, adding 1,772 Junior Members to our Society. 

 During the summer we got a good deal of material ready to send out this 

 fall, and already have received thirteen classes, containing 303 members, 

 since school opened. A number of school superintendents and teachers have 

 expressed much interest and enthusiasm for the work, and we appreciate the 

 kindness and help given by the National Association and the friend whose 

 generosity has made it possible. 



In addition to the usual monthly meetings of the Directors, we have had 

 a course of four lectures by Mr. Herbert W. Gleason, Mrs. Kate Tyron, Mr. 

 Clinton G. Abbot and Mr. Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and a meeting to which 

 the public was invited, at which one of our Directors, Mr. Francis H. Allen, 

 presided and gave a brief report of our work, followed by short addresses from 

 Dr. George W. Field and Mr. Edward Howe Forbush, and an illustrated talk 

 by Mr. William Lyman Underwood. After this meeting a tea was given to 

 the local secretaries and the teachers who had started Junior Classes by one 

 of the Directors at her home in Cambridge. 



This year we are bringing out a beautiful new calendar; also a new bird- 



