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Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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moneys worth. A program of eleven monthly meetings has been issued.Seven of these are field trips, each in charge of a competent leader; one is theannual business meeting; one, an indoor Christmas bird census meeting;one, a lecture by Ernest Harold Baynes on Winter Feeding and Methodsof Attracting Birds; and for one month there is a series of three lectures onHow to Identify Birds, by Dr. Herbert E. Walter, President of the Society.This plan is based on the theory that, while many persons will join the Societyfor the good their money will do, there are many other persons who will joinif in return for their money they are given opportunity to gain some knowledgeof the birds.—H. L. Madison, Secretary. East Tennessee.—The fall of 1912 found many of the members of thisSociety in rather a quiescent state—willing to sit steady in the boat andfloat with the stream. There were some few earnest, restless souls who chafedat this seeming want of progress. They wanted to see things moving.
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State Audubon Reports 469 The writer eased her conscience by talking before schools and mothersassociations, urging the organization of Junior Audubon Societies. She alsoplastered all Tennessee with from three to four hundred circulars favoringbird-protection, furnished her by Dr. William T. Hornaday and Prof. T. G.Pearson, of New York. The Society met her request for subscriptions toBird-Lore by giving her ten subscriptions. Our President, O. C. Woodward, violently progressive, became a travelingsalesman and turned his attention to field work. His report as field agentwill give some idea as to the ground he has covered. Mrs. T. J. Hinton, another bird-zealot, has taken for her text, Bob-white, and never fails to preach her daily sermon. On account of his ability, Col. B. R. Strong was chosen as Business Manager.He has justified our choice, for he has spared neither time nor money in gettingup a creditable exhibit for the National Conservation Exposition. No otherman would have pulled

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