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Bird- Lore 



ture — 'A Trip into Florida,' illustrated 

 with the most beautiful lantern-slides. 

 Speaker, the Rev. Herbert K. Job. This 

 lecture was delivered before a very full 

 house and created the greatest admiration 

 and enthusiasm. 



February 9. — Regular meeting. Pro- 

 gram: ' Birds in Song' — Miss Given. Se- 

 lected poems read by Miss E. V. Brown., 

 ' Birds in Prose ' — Mrs. Wallace Radcliflc. 

 Informal notes by members. 



March 8. — Regular meeting. Topic — 

 ' Bird Protective Legislation and Methods 

 of Enforcement, with special reference to 

 the District of Columbia,' Dr. T. S 

 Palmer. 



April 12. — Two lectures were given at 

 this meeting. One on ' Migration,' by Pro- 

 fessor W. W. Cooke. The second by Mr. 

 Henry Oldys and called ' In Nature's Do- 

 mains." This was most interestingly illus- 

 trated by bird notes and calls. 



In April began our field meetings and 

 bird classes. Four outdoor meetings were 

 held, two in April and two in May. 



April 8, we began our class for bird 

 study. The subjects for these classes were: 

 ' General Study of Birds : derivation, clas- 

 sification, etc.'; 'Distribution and Migra- 

 tion' ; ' Economic Value, Nests and Eggs' ; 

 'Bird Songs and Dances.' These classes 

 interested about sixty persons and were 

 most ably conducted by Mr. Henry Oldys. 



Our season closed with these lectures, 

 and we all feel that last year was our 

 most successful period since the society was 

 organized. 



This year we have an illustrated lecture 

 of our very own, from which we hope for 

 further good results. The program of last 

 year proved such a success that it is prob- 

 able the same ideas will be called into use, 

 varying only in detail and subjects for lec- 

 tures and study. 



Jeanie Macry Patten, Secretary. 



First Annual Meeting of the California 

 Audubon Society 



The first annual meeting of the California 

 Audubon Society was held in a grove at 

 Altadena, a beautiful suburb of Pasadena, 



on June 4, 1904, the organization at that 

 date being but little more than two months 

 old. 



There was a large attendance of members 

 who enjoyed a delightful day beneath the 

 trees. The program included an address of 

 welcome by the President, Dr. Garrett 

 Newkirk ; an interesting talk on ' Our Pro- 

 tected Birds,' by Professor Joseph Grinnell; 

 recitations by Catherine Pierce Wheat and 

 Marcia Coolidge; an address by Dr. E. L. 

 Conger, and appropriate remarks by a num- 

 ber of members and visitors. 



Letters of greeting and congratulation 

 were read from Olive Thome Miller, Wil- 

 liam Dutcher, Charles Keeler and Dr. 

 William Rogers Lord. Promised letters 

 from Mabel Osgood Wright and Florence 

 Merriam Bailey were delayed in the mails 

 and did not reach the secretary in time for 

 the meeting. They were read, however, at 

 a special meeting of the society a few weeks 

 later and received with great interest and 

 pleasure. 



The report of the Secretary, submitted at 

 the meeting, was very satisfactory and en- 

 couraging. It showed that the society had 

 already accomplished much good in the way 

 of bird protection and was gaining rapidly 

 in members and influence. A county ordi- 

 nance prohibiting all shooting on the public 

 roads had been secured, a large number of 

 warning notices and cards containing bird- 

 and game-laws had been posted or distrib- 

 uted, cases of nest-robbing were under 

 investigation and there had been one con- 

 viction for violation of the game-laws. 



The California Audubon Society is mak- 

 ing splendid headway. There are now 

 four senior and five junior sections, with a 

 total membership of about six hundred. 

 Public sentiment has been aroused, espe- 

 cially in the interest of the protection of the 

 Mourning Dove, and the society is receiving 

 messages of good-will and offers of assist- 

 ance from friends of the birds in all parts of 

 the state. 



The local societies will soon federate as a 

 state organization, which will be prepared 

 to urge the ' Model Law ' at the legislative 

 session of 1905. 



W. Scott Way, Secretary. 



