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turei'A Trip into Florida,‘ illustrated with the most beautiful lantern-slides Speaker. the Rev. Herbert K._lob. This lecture was delivered before a very full house and created the greatest admiration and enthusiasm.

February yiRegular meeting. Pro- v

gram: ‘ Birds in Song ’~Miss Given. Se- lected poems read by Miss E. v, Brown. ' Birds in Prose ’-—Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe. Informal notes by members.

March 8.—Regular meeting. Tupici ‘Bird Protective Legislation and Methods of Enforcement, with special reference to the District of Columbia,‘ Dr. T, S Palmer,

April iz.—Two lectures were given at this meeting. One on ‘ Migration,’ by Pro- fessor W. W. Coolte. The second by Mr. Henry Oldys and called ‘ In Nature‘s Do— mains.” This was most interestingly illus- trated by bird notes and calls.

In April began our ﬁeld meetings and bird classes. Four outdoor meetings were held, two in April and two in May.

April 8, we began our class for bird study. The subjects for these classes were: ‘ General Study of Birds: derivation, clas- siﬁcation. etc., ‘Distribution and Migra- tion’; ‘Economic Value. Nests and Eggs‘; ‘Bird Songs and Dances.‘ These classes interested about sixty persons and were most ably conducted by Mr. Henry Oldys.

Our season closed with these lectures, and we all feel that last year was our most successful period since the society was organized.

This year we have an illustrated lecture of our very own, from which we hope for further good results. The program of last year proved such a success that it is prob- able the same ideas will be called into use, varying only in detail and subjects for lec» tures and study.

JEANIE Mru'lu' PATTEN. Serrelarya

First Annual Meeting of the California Audubon Society

The first annual meeting of the California Audubon Society was held in a grove at Altadena. a beautiful suburb of Pasadena,

on June 4, .904, the organization at that date being but little more than two months old.

There was a large attendance of members who enjoyed a delightful day beneath the trees. The program included an address of welcome by the President, Dr. Garrett Newltirk; an interesting talk on ‘ Our Pro» tected Birds,‘ by Professor Joseph Grinnell; recitations by Catherine Pierce Wheat and Marcia Coolidge; an address by Dr. E. L. Conger, and appropriate remarks by a num— ber of members and visitors.

Letters of greeting and congratulation were read from Olive Thorne Miller, Wil- liam Dutcher, Charles Keeler and Dr. William Rogers Lord. Promised letters from Mabel Osgood Wright and Florence Merriam Bailey were delayed in the mails and did not reach the secretary in time for the meeting. They were read, however, at a special meeting of the society a few weeks later and received with great interest and pleasure

The report of the Secretary, submitted at the meeting, was very satisfactory and en~ couraging. It showed that the society had already accomplished much good in the way of bird protection and was gaining rapidly in members and inﬂuence A county ordi- nance prohibiting all shooting on the public roads had been secured, a large number of warning notices and cards containing bird. and game-laws had been posted or distrib- uted, cases of nest»robbing were under investigation and there had been one con— viction for violation of the game—laws.

The California Audubon Society is malt- ing splendid headway. There are now four senior and ﬁve junior sections, with a total membership of about six hundred. Public sentiment has been aroused, espe- cially in the interest of the protection of the Mourning Dove, and the society is receiving messages of good-will and offers of assist- ance from friends of the birds in all parts of the state.

The local societies will soon federate as a state organization, which will be prepared to urge the ‘Model Law‘ at the legislative session of 1905.

W. SCUTI‘ WAY, Secretary.