. Bird lore . sliip during the past twelve months has grownfrom 1,351 to 1,625. The Contributors to the General Fund have increased in number from73 to 168. The income of the Association for the year 1911, from all sources, amountedto $44, During the past year the total income has been $59,757-71;thus showing an increase of $15, While the increase of the resources of the Association is gratifying, let noone be deceived for a moment in thinking that our means is in any sense ade- 392 Bird-Lore quate to the worthy demands made upon us for assistance from all parts ofthe country. Be
. Bird lore . sliip during the past twelve months has grownfrom 1,351 to 1,625. The Contributors to the General Fund have increased in number from73 to 168. The income of the Association for the year 1911, from all sources, amountedto $44, During the past year the total income has been $59,757-71;thus showing an increase of $15, While the increase of the resources of the Association is gratifying, let noone be deceived for a moment in thinking that our means is in any sense ade- 392 Bird-Lore quate to the worthy demands made upon us for assistance from all parts ofthe country. Before closing, the Board would take this opportunity of calling to theattention of our members and friends the desirability of greatly extendingthe Endowment Fund of the Association. We trust this will come to theattention of many who when making their wills may feel that the great workof this Association merits the strong continued support which only a largeendowment can provide. T. Gilbert Pearson, Reports of Field Agents 393 REPORTS OF FIELD AGENTS REPORT OF EDWARD HOWE FORBUSH, FIELD AGENTFOR NEW ENGLAND Since the last annual meeting of this Association, your Field Agent forNew England has had more than the usual demand for lectures, and has beenobliged to refuse many opportunities because of other pressing work. Twentylectures have been given, however, to about 4,000 people, mainly in Massa-chusetts, Connecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire. The series of newspaper articles pubhshed in New England newspapers,which was interrupted for a time last year because of lack of means for theirpubHcation, has been continued intermittently during the present year. Someeducational work has been done in the schools in cooperation with the StateSocieties. Two legislatures in New England held sessions in 1912,—Massachusettsand Rhode Island,—and the fall session of the Aermont Legislature has justbegun as this report is being written. The Audubon Society of Rhode Islanddid no
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