. Bird-lore . and people witnessed the pageant, and itmade a deep and lasting impression. We are starting on our years work with even more enthusiasm than Junior members will hold monthly meetings and have afternoon lec-tures. The Society has voted to buy 200 suet-baskets to be placed in parksand other proper places. Nebraska birds will be studied this winter in aseries of lectures by ornithologists of the University of Nebraska.—Joy Mont-gomery HiGGiNS, Secretary. 452 Bird- Lore New Hampshire Audubon Society.—Our Society has had a year of suc-cessful achievement, the work done being
. Bird-lore . and people witnessed the pageant, and itmade a deep and lasting impression. We are starting on our years work with even more enthusiasm than Junior members will hold monthly meetings and have afternoon lec-tures. The Society has voted to buy 200 suet-baskets to be placed in parksand other proper places. Nebraska birds will be studied this winter in aseries of lectures by ornithologists of the University of Nebraska.—Joy Mont-gomery HiGGiNS, Secretary. 452 Bird- Lore New Hampshire Audubon Society.—Our Society has had a year of suc-cessful achievement, the work done being nearly twice that of the precedingyear. We chronicle an increase of 250 members. The work in organizing JuniorAudubon Classes has been notable, 4,425 children having been gathered into239 classes, just double the number last year. This is a large number for astate with so small a population. A large and varied correspondence has beenmaintained, and great quantities of literature have been distributed. When. EXHIBIT OF BIRD-BOXES MADE BY SCHOOL-CHILDREN OF NASHUA, NEW HAMP-SHIRE, AND ERECTED IN THE LOCAL CEMETERY BIRD-SANCTUARY the bird-destroyers sought to secure spring-shooting in the Middle States, ourSociety, in a circular letter, urged its members to make vigorous protests, withthe result that hundreds of such protests were sent to Washington. So we hadour part in the victory. We also did what we could to help secure the passagein the Senate of the international treaty. The secretary has given seventy-two bird-lectures and addresses before all sorts of audiences, and has beeneverywhere welcomed. Many articles for magazines and newspapers have been prepared and pub-lished. The cemetery authorities at Nashua have been induced to allow thetwo large cemeteries to be converted into bird-sanctuaries. One hundred andeight nesting-boxes have been constructed in the manual-training department Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 453 of the schools and placed in the cemeteri
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