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Greenwich G Chapter. Greenwich, 

 Connecticut. Officers: I 'resident. Mr. 

 Arthur F. Ochtman; Vice-President, 

 Miss Alice Wild; Recording Secretary, 

 Mr. Harold C. Powers; Corresponding 

 Secretary, Miss Margaret Seymour; 

 Treasurer, Miss Elizabeth G. Doran. 



Sussex County Nature Study Cluh 

 Chapter. Newton, New Jersey. Officers: 

 President. Mrs. E. K. Harrington; Vice- 

 Presidents, Miss Blanche Mill and Miss 

 Mary Kanouse ; Recording and Corre- 

 sponding Secretary. Mrs. Horatio N. 

 Crane; Treasurer. Miss Ardelia M. 

 Allen. 



Special Student at Arcadia. 

 G. P». Affleck. A. P.. a member of 

 The Agassiz Association, of the Inter- 

 national Y. M. C. A. Training School 

 of Springfield. Massachusetts, spent 

 two weeks at Arcadia, devoting the 

 most of his time to ants and photo- 

 micrography. He expressed much 

 pleasure with our facilities for special 

 biological work. 



Is It a Sudden Awakening? 



UY DORIS I. XEKI., CORRESPONDING MEM- 

 BER NO. 2132 OF THE AA, SOUTH 

 HARWICH, MASS VCHUSETTS. 



1 think so many people need a "start." 

 Nature "grows on people." Put they do 

 not become nature lovers quite suddenly, 

 do they? They need awakening first to 

 find out how much they don't know. 

 1 >on't you think that a great many people 

 lack interest in nature because they have 

 the mistaken idea that it is necessary to 

 know a lot even to begin to know any- 

 thing of birds or flowers at all? I wish 

 every one could just get the "start." the 

 little push forward into that one great 

 work of interest — the creation of God's 

 hand. 



That is why T have tried to show up 

 the commoner birds that so easilv make 

 themselves acquainted. As it is indeed 

 "the little things that count in life" I 

 think each one can count in the making 

 of a "start." 



I The La Rue Holmes Nature Lovers League ' 



By George Klingle, Summit, New Jersey 



"The Gutde to Nature" is the official organ of the LaRue Holmes Nature League. It is im- 

 portant, for the general League interest, that the magazine be liberally supported, through the active 

 cooperation of League members — George Klingle. 



L. H. Nature League Motto: "Self-sacrifice; heroism for another." 



Our Work and Purpose. half of nature protection. The corner 

 One hundred and thirteen addresses stone of the movement is the senti- 

 have been given during the past year, ment of kindness toward every living 

 to L. H. Nature League Chapters, thing. A League-member whose life- 

 uncle r the direct auspices of the Cen- aim is not to make the world happier 

 tral League organization, apart from as he passes on is false to the cause. 



those independently arranged for by 

 individual Chapters. 



These addresses have dealt with sub- 

 jects connected with ornithology, for- 

 estry, and other branches of science, 

 nature protection being a chief theme 

 for consideration. 



It will be noted that while the L. H. 

 Nature League forwards the cause of 

 nature study as an ennobling and eco- 

 nomic cause, its especial reason for 

 being is to perpetuate and increase 

 human happiness through a pro- 

 nounced and determined effort in be- 



Through the preservation of nature's 

 God-given riches alone, can the health, 

 happiness and financial prosperity of 

 this nation be maintained. 



As League members, consecrated to 

 a cause, we need to discover ways of 

 advancing movements aiming to in- 

 crease protection, and to ask ourselves 

 if we really accept, as opportunity, 

 chances to cast in our weight with the 

 various influences tending to preserve, 

 for ourselves and future generations, 

 the remnants of desecrated nature. 



