The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-02
4 NDIRON NOCIETY.
Annual Election of Officers Yesterday-
 Other Bu,iness

| Annual Election of Officers Yesterday Other Budness.
 | The Audubon society of Connecticut held it's annual meeting in the United church chapel yesterday afternoon The meeting was one of the best ever held | by the society and was very largely att | tended. The main floor of the chapel and the galleries were crowded with members and visitors Mrs. Mabel Os- good Wright of Fairfield, president of the society, read her annual report, which showed that the last year has been the most successful in the history | of the organization. She also explained the objects of the society, which, in brief, are that there shall be activity in preventing, so far as possible, the use of birds as ornaments, especially for hats; to prevent the destruction of birds by children in their Wantonly cruel manner, especially their habits of rob- ping nests, and also to have farmers de- sist from snaring crows and other birds which they consider to be menaces to their crops, while it has been shown that their presence is beneficial and not detrimental, as is generally supposed They may destroy some of the crops but the proportion of their destructive- ness to the benefit they are to the crops in eating worms and insects Is very small.
 The report of the secretary and treas- urer, Mrs. Henry & Glover of Fairfield, was read by Charles s. DeForest of this
 city. The financial condition of the so-
 ciety is good and in the past year there
 have been over three hundred new mem-
 bers added to the rolls.
 Officers for the year were elected as follows: President, Mrs Mabel Osgood Wright of Fairfield; vice president and
 corresponding secretary, Mrs. William
 B. Glover of Fairfield; secretary and
 treasurer, Mrs. Howard Knapp. The
 New HaNen members of the executive
 committee are Charles s. DeForest, Will
 liam c. Van Name, Mrs. Morris r. Ty-
 Ter and Mrs. William T. Brooks, the lat
 ter of whom is also local secretary.
 There was also q report concerning
 the illustrated lectures owned by the
 society The first Is concerning birds
 in and about the home and the other is
 concerning farm birds. Both of them
 are illustrated by the stereopticon and
 during last year they were exhibited over fifty times, most of the exhibitions taking place before granges. They were also shown before the Hotchkiss school at Lakeville and Mrs, Deyan's school in Stamford. It is desired that the pub lie know that these lectures can be se- cured for the nominal expense of the express charges on them from Fairfield to any part of the state. They consist of about seventy pictures and are two very interesting and instructive lec- tureS
 Frank M. Chapman, a life member of the state society, was present at the meeting and delivered an address on the toric "Photoeraphv as an Aid to Rird Study" His lecture was Illustrated and he showed pictures of birds that are found in all parts of the country from Labrador to Florida. The homes of the birds, their eggs and haunts were shown and all of the plates were highly color ed. The lecture was extremely delight fui. MT. Chapman is curator of the York city.
 There are at present eighty-seven members of the society In New Haven and at the close of the meeting yester day several persons signified an inten ton of joining. The fees are quite small For persons over eighteen years of age $1 is charged, and this fee is all that is necessary. There are no dues Teachers in the schools are admitted to