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ning, within the next month, to ask the other libraries for a statement of their 

 literature on these subjects. 



No. 7. In so far as it is possible to obtain reports from the other state 

 societies, we are endeavoring to keep in touch with them. 



8. I have just mailed to each (the president and secretary) a copy of the 

 aforementioned bulletin. 



9. We have not, to my knowledge, had a representative at the meeting 

 of the National Association, but a number of our people are also members of 

 the American Ornithologists' Union and Cooper Ornithological Club. 



10. In connection with my work as director of the Economic Biological 

 Survey of the State, I have covered a large part of the state, and am pretty 

 familiar with the locality suitable for field trips. 



11. We have three particular reservations in North Dakota which are 

 proving very successful. We are at present working for still more of them. 



12. The Society has not made a regular practice of putting out such 

 literature. 



13. In securing new members, we are much more interested in developing 

 the interest of those members in bird-study than in securing their dollars, as 

 is indicated by the fact that we offer to each member as a premium with the 

 annual membership fee of $1, the choice of a year's subscription to "Bird- 

 Lore," or a copy of Reed's "Guide to Land Birds," or "Guide to Water 

 Birds." We are endeavoring in every way possible to increase the interest of* 

 our members in bird-study work, and feel that this is one of the best means 

 we have heard of to keep our people in touch with the bird work, and to 

 help them in gaining a familiarity with our bird life. 



14. This is a difficult question to answer, but it seems to me that one of 

 the most important things is to interest the teachers in bird-study, and 

 through them to interest the children, and give them information which may 

 add to their interest in birds, and their desire to see them properly protected. 



15. I do not know of any larger opportunity than that offered by nature- 

 study, but there is opportunity for additional work among adults through 

 the presentation of lectures in cooperation with other organizations. This we 

 are endeavoring to do by cooperating with the colleges, the Game and Fish 

 Protective Associations and the Better Farming Association of the state and 

 Women's Clubs. Yours truly, 



W. B. Bell, 

 Professor of Zoology, North Dakota Agricultural College. 



The bulletin referred to under 3, entitled The Extension (Vol. VI, No. 2), 

 is devoted to birds, and contains an excellent arrangement of information 

 helpful to teachers, bird students, and the public at large. 



After a brief survey of the growth of bird-study and the reasons why 

 birds may be easily studied and should be studied, the economic relations of 



