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Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ade to destroy its usefulness. In this, however, they were onl\ partlysuccessful, while, on the other hand, the Society and its friends were able tosecure the passage of a number of local laws providing for much-needed restric-tions on hunting. Our receipts for the year were $12,947.35, and our e.\))enditurcs $12,758.20,leaving a balance on hand of $188.53.—T. (iiLBi rt Tkarson, Secretary. State Audubon Reports 32s Ohio.—The past year has been the banner year in the history of the AudubonSociety of Ohio, at least as regards the educational work. We saw what couldbe done by a systematic and well-directed effort on the ))art nf a corps of enthusi-astic, capable members of our Society, and we feel assured that the work has notbeen without its definite effect upon the thousands of school children who so thor-oughly enjoved the series <if lectures (»n Birds whch were given in every partof Cincinnati last year. The plan was as follows: We had as many as half a dozen lectures (mostly
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SAXD-BAR IX XORTH CAROLIXA OCCUPIED BY ROYAL TERXSIt is only a few inches above sea-level and storm-tides often sweep over it, destroying all thevoung birds and eggs. Xote grouping of birds about Audubon warning notice. Photographed byP. B. Philipp. lantern-slide talksj in the various branch libraries, on the same afternoon,for which tickets of admission were issued only to those students who were inter-ested enough to attend. We divided the public schools into sections, allowingabout six schools to each library, and sending only enough tickets not to exceedthe capacity of each auditorium. By rotating the lecturers, we managed to givea series of three lectures in each branch library; and the way in which the childrenresponded is sufficient evidence that the subject is one that appeals to a childs-imagination. This was the second year that the bird lectures were given, but on>a more extended scale, and we feel gratified with the result. 326 Bird - Lore Not only did wc have the coope

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