Report of Secretary 413 



FIELD AGENTS 



Six field agents were engaged by the Board the past year to give part or 

 all of their time to lecturing and attending to other duties in connection 

 with Audubon work in their respective territories. These were: Mr. E. H. 

 Forbush, in New England; Mr. Wm. L. Finley, in Oregon; Miss Katharine 

 H. Stuart, in Virginia; Dr. Eugene Swope, in Ohio; Mr. E. V. Visart, in Arkan- 

 sas; and Mr. James Henry Rice, in South Carolina. 



All of these rendered splendid service, and the detailed reports of their 

 efforts will be published and distributed to members with this report. In 

 addition to their other labors, Messrs. Forbush, Rice and Swope rendered 

 material service in adding many names to the list of members and subscribers 

 to the Association. In this connection, we regret to state that Mr. Forbush 

 has found his duties as State Ornithologist of Massachusetts to have become 

 so great that he will be unable to devote as much time to Audubon matters 

 as formerly. The Board has, therefore, arranged for Mr. Winthrop Packard, 

 Secretary of the Audubon Society of that state, to give one-half of his time 

 to the work of the Association in Massachusetts. 



STATE SOCIETIES 



We cannot over-estimate the importance of the splendid work being done 

 by the thirty or more State Audubon Societies. These organizations contain 

 hundreds of the most zealous bird-lovers and bird-protectionists in the land, 

 and their influence on the conservation of the wild life in their several states 

 is a most pronounced fact, as is well known to all destroyers of wild life. 



A strong state society has recently been formed in Arkansas. Mr. Visart 

 and many ladies of Little Rock have been working to this end for some time, 

 and the society was launched upon the occasion of a lecture delivered this 

 month in that city by Mr. E. A. Mcllhenny, one of our Louisiana members 

 and a most active worker for conservation. It will be recalled that it was 

 through this gentleman's activities that Mrs. Russell Sage became interested 

 last year in the purchase of Marsh Island as a bird-reserve. 



PUBLICATIONS 



It has been the custom of the Association for some time to issue each year 

 six new Educational Leaflets, each one giving a brief life-history of some 

 American bird. These are always published first in our official organ, Bird- 

 Lore. 



The past year, eleven subjects have been treated in this manner, as follows: 

 Hudsonian Curlew, written by A. C. Bent; Ruffed Grouse, by Dr. George 

 Bird Grinnell; Willow Ptarmigan, by Joseph Grinnell; Emperor Goose and 



