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Society uill increase and that it will ac- complish something in the important work of ptoterting our native birds.

Mus. F. K. Hausous. Strut/mun

October 2 r. rooz.

Report at the Connecticut Society

Annual

At thc lnurth annual meeting of the Connecticut Audubon Society. held ill Stamford. on May :5. 1901. Mr. C, l). Hine. Secretary of the State Board of Edu~

cation. addre d the audience on tlte edut'a»

tioltal value of bird-study. Following out the thought given t - by Mr. Hine, at this meeting, the Executive Committee have worked together on educational linesdtlring the past §ear. sucking to have the children in the srlluttls taught the high value of nature- and bird-study. leading them to the thoughts at high lninds, training them in right thinking. and bringing them to right impulse of doing. in tlle protection of birds. and in general humanity.

The Sitt‘ieH' distributes to schools and village lihrrtries. through the Board of on

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Education. eighteen libraries of hot) birds and nature, thirty»eight sets of bird charts. altd three illustrated lertttre

The Board of Education a. . l: for too libraries. and a chart for etery public school in the state saying that all Ctmltl be well used. It ' our ttish this year to raise money to purchase these books antl charts. During the past seventeen months the Ex- Eclttive Committet' have held thirteen meets

iugs to transact the business of the Society. The membership at the Soriety has been increased by ten adult members, ﬁfteen teachers. 690 junior members, and 3.637 associate membershia total of 4.352. The a ociate int-tubers are children who do not pay a fee and do not receive a certificate. but who sign a pledge to protect birds, and who rECciv: an Audubon button. You will notice that the majority of the new members are Children. and you will then set the re- sult of the work which has been done ill schools by the teat-hers. antl through out We have local secretaries Reports

local secretaries. tn thirty-seven towns in the state.

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have been received from twentv of them and they tell of such great interesl in thts work among the children, and such a desire to keep the bird charts permanently in the schools.

Quoting from some of these reports, one says. -- '1 he intelligence in regard to birds grows earh year. and men the Crow has his friends." From Madison. Conn.. we hear that "interest in bird song has been kept up and increased so much that, as regards wan in the schools. there are almost literally no more worlds to t-ontlucr; our teachers all being memhers oi the Audubon Seciety and enthusiastic bird students, the efforts of the local secretary are not required to arouse interest among the young people. She is. however. sure of a welcome and an eager response when she drops in at some district school to ask a few questions ahout nests In most of the

and rare feathered vi.itots. schools. the smallest child knows from ﬁfty to one hundred h ds, while not the roughest hay in Madison mrw dreams of molesting a nest of eggs or young; with the result that

never hetore has our village been so thrortgetl with Inncful neighbors. The hittls may he said to have conquered Madison."

In Standard the local secretary presented two librari ' to the different schools. She says: “Principal, tearhers ilml scholarsalike torwartl in etert- way Audubon work by

their enthusiasm and earnestness. the result heng r..t76 new junior or associate mem~ hers." otrr Harttnrtl secretary says. “It people only knew what a pleasure it is to talk to the enthusiastic little children. more would go to work in the public st’liuolst The path is all smoothed for tls by the very charming principals and teachers; and the children themselves do half the talking, and would do it all, if one did not want a little say one's self.” Added to this educational work, the Society has posted the state game laws in forty towns. in all express ottices, and in one hundred and twenty-six summer hotels. and is now contemplating putting them in saloons, thinking that some would see them in that way who would not perhaps notice Respectfully submitted. w. GLOVER. smmry.

them elsewhere. HELE

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