Identifier: birdlore161914nati (find matches)
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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t by the Secretary, besides notices and literature. Early in the year an active part was taken in support of the feather proviso pending in the tariff bill. Cooperating with the National Association, 162 Junior Classes, with a membership of 3,426, were organized, which placed Florida first on the list of Southern States. The prize of $10, offered to high-school pupils in the state for essays on birds, was awarded to Miss Efiie Rolfs, of Gainesville. A second prize, Chapmans Birds of Eastern North America, was given to Miss Jeanette Hopson, of the Duval High School, Jacksonville. Similar prizes were offered to Clearwater schools by Oscar E. Baynard. At the state fair in Orlando an attractive Audubon booth was arranged by Mrs. Haden and Mrs. Vanderpool, where information as to the work of the Society was circulated by means of leaflets and pictures. Many copies of the new booklet of the Florida game-laws also were distributed. Dr. Eugene Swope, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was employed as field agent for
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JUDGE JOB BARNARD President of the District of Columbia Society (S09) 510 Bird-Lore four months by the executive committee and the National Association jointly. He obtained forty new members for the Society, and an account of his experiences may be found elsewhere in this report. Branches of the Society are now established at St. Petersburg, Kissimmee, Tampa, Winter Haven and Plant City. It is hoped that many others will be formed during this autumn and winter. Each branch lends its financial aid to the State Society by becoming a sustaining member (payment $5), and reports quarterly to the Secretary. The St. Petersburg branch, of which Mrs. Katherine Tippets is the President, has had a successful winter. Mrs. Barton, the Secretary, reports that never has there been such universal interest—the attendance of the bi-monthly meetings was never so large. A prize of $5, open to any boy in the manual training school who made and put up a bird-house in which a family of birds was hatched and rais

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