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keeper for the same—a u-ise. patient person in) see that the outﬁt is in order whenever sent out, to ‘chase it,’ like the agent who looks up run-away freight cars. when it does not come home promptlv. and to hook the applications for its use,

This is all extremer nttlllotls work. rc- rpiiring a knowledge of railway and express routes. as well as accuracy and quick w s, for engagements must be booked with due regard to distances and locality; and many lrnntit‘ telegrams will he received saying ‘We expect the hall iull to-mght and the outﬁt has not come '—this about four o‘clock in the afternoon and the place ﬁfty ni'ea away, The right sort ot manager must be able to telegraph some cause for detention or suggest a remedy, It the state is a large one, there should be one head olﬁce and several sllbrstations in the various counties. where the outﬁt may be kept a month at a time for local use.

When this free lecture has been heard and seen at the public schools of a section curiosity will awakenr and questions as It) the identity of birds will follau'r Then comes the opportunity for supplying the rear-hers with the bird charts issued by the Massachusetts Society. As interest grows, and teachers and pupils alike begin to query and think, [he free libraries should slip in to till a demand that will be. if our own expetience counts tor anything, nn. ending.

Here in Connet‘tit’tlt. though much out- side work has been done, the public school is our chosen ﬁeld. and the e and hearty cooperation of the State Board of Education our greatest aid.

It is through this Board that we now cir- our charts. librariesiall tree. and freely transportetli even as the money and labor that provided the material was freely given. This fall, when we asked it the interest in bird-work routinued. and if this material was s ill in demand. the reply ramc—‘ (iive t books, more charts; we need one hundred every school.’ Meanwhile, at the anti oi hint years" ser-

culate materialt Lectures,

more

libraries and a chart for

vice. our tlttee lectures,7 on: popular. one tt-nnninit-. nntl atltlreasotl th farmers par.

ticularly. and one for children,—are still quietly workng their way in remote places, as it were, breaking the turf in unplowed ﬁelds for the sowing of the knowledge whose fruit is Bird Protection—Mann OSCODD WRIGHT.

Reports of Societies

Sixth Annual Report ol the Pennsylvania Audubon Society

0n looking back over the past year ot Audubon work in Pennsylvania, I can see that we have matle steady progress.

Over 9.000 circulars. 1,000 copies oi the‘ bird laws and 200 United States Agricul- tural Department circulars on shipment of game were distributed during the year. The membership has increased to over 7,000, in which sixty—two of the sixty-eight counties of the state are represented.

Miss Hilda justice has continued in charge of the traveling libraries with much success. Twelve libtaties of ten books have been in circulation in the state, and have heen used in sixteen schools lor twenty-nine periods of three months each. Teachers have written very appreciative letters te~ specting their use and Iltc beneﬁts derived trom them by the children. Any school may obtain the use of a library by com~ municating with Miss Hilda Justice. Clappict street, Germantown, Philadelphia.

During the past year we have been in re— ceipt of numerous complaints. relative to illegal shooting of insectivotous birds, notably Flickers and Robins, with the idea that the ofﬁcers of the society can cause the arrest of the gunners. ln orderto show ex— actly how these arrests can be ohtained. we would Call the attention of our members to the following:

"The constable of each township or hot- ough in Pennsylvania is the person author- ,.

(I by law to arrest violators of the bird laws, and he mustmakc a ropnrt under oath to the Court of Quarter Sessions of his county at each term, of all violations oc- rnrring in his township or brought to his noticet

” Members of the Audubon Society wish- ing to have violators of the law arrested