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Washington (Ind.) Bird Lovers' Club:
President,
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Secretary, Cameron Hyatt, Washington, Indiana.
Washington State Federation of Women's Clubs:
President, Mrs. Solon Shedd, Pullman, Wash.
Secretary, Mrs. Ira D. Cardiff, 302 Oak St., Pullman, Wash.
Watertown (N. Y.) Bird Club:
President, Prof. E. W. Elsworth, Watertown, N. Y.
Secretary, Miss Antoinette Rogers, 325 Jay St., Watertown, N. Y.
Western Pennsylvania Audubon Society:
President, Charles B. Horton, 5001 Jenkins Arcade Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa.
Secretary, T. Walter Weisman, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Winston-Salem (N. C.) Audubon Society:
President, Col. W. A. Blair, Care of Peoples Bank, Winston-Salem, N. C.
Secretary, Miss Helen Keith, 32 Brookstown Ave., Winston-Salem, N. C.
WoBURN (Mass.) Woman's Club:
President, Miss Gertrude B. Hutchins, 62 Mt. Pleasant St., Woburn, Mass.
Secretary, Mrs. Blanche L. Dorr, 756 Main St., Woburn, Mass.
Woman's Club (Seymour, Conn.):
President, Mrs. E. B. Hobart, 40 Maple St., Seymour, Conn.
Secretary, Mrs. L. C. McGowan, 106 West St., Seymour, Conn.
Wyncote (Pa.) Bird Club:
President, Ernest Corts, Wyncote, Pa.
Secretary, Miss Esther Heacock, Wyncote, Pa.
JUNIOR AUDUBON SOCIETIES
If this Association had never engaged in any effort for conservation other
than its work with children, its influence for good would still have been monu-
mental. Beginning with the school-year of 1910-1911, when we enrolled
10,595 children in bird-study classes in the southern states, this organized
effort has spread with astonishing rapidity to every state in the Union and many
of the Canadian provinces. Each year has seen a marked increase over the
previous year, both in numbers of clubs formed and in numbers of children
enrolled. The past year, 9,901 such Junior groups were formed with a total
paid membership of 205,196; this is an increase of more than 53,000 over the
number enrolled the year before. Owing to the unusually advantageous print-
ing-contracts we made last year it was possible to supply this great number of
children. The cost of paper has sharply risen of late, and it is doubtful if, with
the funds at our disposal, this record can be duphcated another year. It may
be interesting to record here that since the inception of this phase of our work
six years ago, a total of 29,052 Junior Audubon Clubs has been formed, and
that 584,254 children as regular Junior members have been instructed in the
principles of the Audubon Society.
These children have been taught to know the common birds about them,
have learned much of the economic and esthetic value of birds to mankind,
some of the rudiments of the laws for their protection, the methods of making