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has risen to the dignity of a most interesting yearly program. This 
calendar for 1929 which lies before us is in attractive style and shows 
that the club has been listening to some worthwhile speakers at its 
monthly meetings. Mr. Wallace F. Worthley of the Chicago Academy 
of Sciences spoke on “Birds of the Chicago 
Area”? in March and in September. Mr. 
Alfred M. Bailey, Director of the Academy, 
lectured on “Our Native Birds.” These are 
only two of their good programs. 
At the Flower Show in Barrington this 
summer the club had an attractive exhibit, 
consisting of a back yard scene made real- 
istic with mounted specimens of birds, feed- 
ing station and drinking fountains. Nothing 
is more suggestive than a display of this 
kind. 
The greatest step forward however, says 
the secretary in her letter in Bird-Lore, is 
the establishment of a bird sanctuary this 
year. “A lovely woods of fourteen acres is 
being used.’’ A creek runs through it and 
a small marsh is part of it. 
This valuable acquisition 1s certainly cal- 
culated to make other local clubs envious. Barrington has a real oppor- 
tunity, through its sanctuary, to do great things for the birds. 
EVANSTON BIRD CLUB 
The Evanston Bird Club which has been in existence for more than 
ten years has attained a constant membership of about a hundred 
members. 
This local group has always had reason to be proud of its lecture 
course, having brought to Evanston such men as William L. Finley, 
Norman McClintock, William Beebe, Edward Avis and others. This 
year at its first open meeting in March, Mr. Guy C. Caldwell of Rocky 
Mountain National Park, Colo., spoke on “Wings and Songs of the 
Rockies,” showing some fascinating pictures of western birds. 
The club has acquired a valuable collection of bird slides, most of 
which were purchased from Mr. L. C. Brownell, whose beautiful pictures 
often appear in Nature Magazine, or from Dr. Arthur A. Allen, of Ithaca, 
whose unexcelled photographs of birds are known through Bird Lore. 
This year additional slides were purchased from Dr. Allen. 
These slides which are loaned to schools and other organizations 
were in demand as usual this season. Illustrated talks were given by the 
president, and also one of the directors, to such groups as the Wilmette 

