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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 Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Date, was givenamong a thousand hybridized sweet peas at W. Atlee Burpees Seed Farm,Doylestown, in June by the sweet pea expert, George W. Kerr. C. F. Choffner, founder of the Liberty Bell Bird Club, gave a stereopticonlecture on the value of birds in the public school, to which the school children Reports of Affiliated Organizations 91 were invited. An illustrated lecture on the constellations was given by WilliamHenry Frome in the open on a perfectly clear moonlight night in July. A hugescreen was erected in a field on a hill on which the pictures were plainlyseen after dark, the members being seated on the ground. At the conclusionof the lecture, thirteen brave members slept on straw under the open sky,along the Neshaminy Creek, at Dark Hollow, a place rich in Indianlegends, remote from the habitations of men, with a mangy dog and a flash-light for protection. By a huge campfire, a midnight feast was prepared,also a 5 oclock breakfast the next morning. Dr. Edward William Geil, the
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A VIEW IN THE BIRD SANCTUARY OF THE DOYLESTOWN, PA., NATURE CLUB. noted traveler and lecturer, will give a talk before the Nature Club inJanuary on Ants and Ant Hills. Dr. Henry C. Mercer, of Moravian Potteryfame, is booked for the lecture on Historic Trees, in November. Most of theClubs lectures are given in the public school to create an interest among thepupils in nature studies. The Nature Club for two years has made a plea forthe protection of wild flowers by posting notices along the roads. May 12,the annual sunrise walk, to study the migration of Warblers, was enjoyed by50 members, with a gypsy breakfast afterward in the woods at 6 oclock. Fornine years, the Nature Club has been taking these sunrise walks, and no matterwhat the condition of the weather at 4 a.m., a large percentage of the mem-bers has been ready to start at that time. 92 Bird-Lore The annual canal-boat trip was taken Saturday, September 22, with 76people on board. The route, from New Hope to Point Pleasant, Pa.

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