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Charles Smith is a ranchman in Wyoming, with a wife who, like 

 him, believes in enjoying the beauty of life wherever it occurs and 

 they have the spirit and imagination that enables them to make 

 life interesting for themselves and others. They take photographs 

 of the birds and animals which they find on the ranch and the 

 country around it and they behold with unsealed eyes what the 

 God of those great plains and mountains meant for his children 

 to see. 



Helen Murphy is a Doctor of Science and an investigator in bi- 

 ology and entomology who has earned the respect of other scientists 

 in this field. She has taught at Cornell and at Colorado College 

 but she enjoys research more than teaching and is at present in the 

 Scrips Laboratory at La Jolla, California. However she is not so 

 scientific that she cannot see and enjoy the common things she sees 

 in the fields and woods; she is no laboratory blind-worm and we 

 publish with pleasure her little skit on friend pig. 



Millie Ruth Turner is a teacher of note in Pennsylvania. She is 

 interested especially in the teaching of English but she holds an 

 open mind toward the natural world which led her to take the 

 very excellent course on Garden Nature-Study given by Dr. John D. 

 Detwiler at the Cornell Summer Session. The adventures of Ferdi- 

 nand and Columbus proved to be of breathless interest to the other 

 pupils as we are sure they will to our readers. Miss Turner has the 

 vision to see the dramatic quality in the life histories of our little 

 brothers of the field and garden and the literary skill to portray 

 them. 



John J. Birch is a new contributor and we have never had the 

 pleasure of knowing him. We trust he will sometime favor us 

 again, for his story in this number is very interesting and full of in- 

 formation. 



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