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 264 Bird - Lore have been a source of delight in districts where such books are not easily obtained or cannot well be afforded. The traveling lecture, with stere- opticon, has carried instruction and entertainment to similar places, as in previous years, and a new lecture, ' The Economic Value of Birds of the State,' to be loaned on request, has been added to our stock. ' Bird charts and pictures have been furnished to schools not able to purchase them. The magazine, Bird-Lore, has been placed in the Man- chester City Library and the Boys' Reading Room, recently established. In accordance with the urgent request of the National Association, our Society expressed its approval and endorsement of three bills then pending in the national legislature; namely, the bill for a ' National Forest Reservation in the White Mountains,' endorsed and strongly urged by the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, the bills of Senator Gallinger and Representative Babcock, ' To prohibit the killing of wild birds and animals in the District of Columbia,' and a bill before the Senate Committee on Forest Reservations for ' The Protection of Animals, Birds and Fish in the Forest Reserves.' In these three cases our Society authorized the secretary to communicate with the New Hampshire delegation in Congress and with the proper Congressional Committee. "The Society has made the following contributions: $25 to the Mrs. Guy Ivi. Bradley Fund; $25 to the National Association. We have received two legacies of fifty dollars each. The prizes offered two years since in the ungraded schools for the greatest improvement in schoolhouse grounds are to be awarded this fall. The Society called for photographs of the surround- ings previous to the beginning of the improvements, and it is hoped that photographs to be taken at the close of this season will show that earnest effort has been made to render these surroundings more beautiful and attractive. ' The secretary hopes that this report may be sufficient proof that the New Hampshire Audubon Society is neither 'on the ebb' nor stationary, but is fulfilling its avowed mission as a barrier between wild birds and a very large unthinking class of people, and a smaller but more harmful class of selfish people. "An indication of the sustained public interest in birds and their protec- tion is the fact that, through the influence of our Society, Mr. Herbert K. Job's lecture 'Among the Egrets with Warden Bradley,' and Mr. William T. Finley's lecture 'Among the Sea Birds off the Oregon Coast ' are to be given this winter under the auspices of the Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences." — Mrs. F. W. Batchelder, Secretary. New Jersey. — "Accounts of our work in New Jersey differ very little from year to year. Our membership increases but slowly, the gain being chiefly among the children. No one can doubt, however, that there is a