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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



LOOKING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION FROM 



Mr. Thompson's work in behalf ot 

 the birds is not limited to his own es- 

 tate. He is General Manager of the 

 Greenwich Bird Protective Society, In 

 corporated, and however busy he may 

 be, he always finds time to answer 

 questions and to make suggestions rel- 

 ative to the protection of our native 

 birds. 



Walcott estimates that at the geo- 

 logic age at which the earliest known 

 fossils occur, nine-tenths of the total 

 evolutionary process had already taken 

 place. 



THAT OF THE PREVIOUS ILLUSTRATION. 



Need of Further Aid in Nature 

 Studies. 



The income of no single research in- 

 stitution now extant, or likely to be 

 rounded, can come anywhere near 

 meeting the wants of the great army 

 of competent investigators now press- 

 ing for financial assistance to forward 

 their researches. Indeed, neither in a 

 single institution nor in all of those 

 now existing combined, nor in a score 

 more of such, will there be found suf- 

 ficient funds to supply the world-wide 

 and rapidly growing demand for them- 

 — Dr. R. S. Woodward. 



