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George, Vice-President; Miss Hattie M. Alleman, Secretary; Mr. Geo. Tavenner, 

 Treasurer. — Hattie M. Alleman, Secretary. 



Wisconsin. — We are glad to report that the Wisconsin Audubon Society 

 has had a successful year. We are just beginning our new fiscal year with 

 strong hopes of continued good work. Our monthly publication has been 

 issued regularly. This year we are going to make it better than last year, 

 largely by planning more carefully in advance. 



There are two undertakings vrhich we attempted with some success last 

 year which we wish to call to the attention of our sister societies. A year ago 

 this fall, we endeavored to interest municipalities in the feeding of the birds 

 that winter in our public parks. This met with some response; Milwaukee 

 made a ver}- active beginning and gave much needed help to hundreds of 

 Gulls that stayed in the ice-bound harbor. Madison also responded. The other 

 imdertaking was worked out in Madison alone. Last spring we solicited from 

 citizens not members of the Wisconsin Audubon Society one dollar each 

 for a fund to erect in a public park a Martin house, and at the same time 

 obtained the promise of the Park and Pleasure Drive Association to care for 

 it if erected. With comparative ease we succeeded in erecting a colony house 

 in time for the birds to occupy it. But what is most important to us is that 

 we feel certain that in these ways we have made many people true friends of 

 the birds and that we have inaugurated agencies which will continue to work 

 of their own accord. — Rolaxd E. Kremers, Secretary. 



