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He is the director of Chequesset, a 

 seashore camp in the heart of the Cape 

 Cod region. One can trust Professor 

 Vinal to put in and to keep in a liberal 

 proportion of nature study, and judg- 

 ing from the bright-eyed college grad- 

 uates who are councillors, these 

 "strong, sympathetic leaders, full of 

 fun, cultured and refined," have a lib- 

 eral amount of enthusiasm for outdoor 

 life in general and for natural objects 

 in particular. Address Mr. William 

 G. Vinal, Rhode Island Normal School, 

 Providence, Rhode Island. 



CAMP ARCADIA IN MAINE. 



The camp that seems to the editor 

 of this magazine to be permeated with 

 a desire to be beneficial rather than to 

 make money, and to intend actually to 

 live with Mother Nature and to be- 

 come acquainted with her rather than 

 merely to have the name of going to 

 visit her, is our namesake, Camp Ar- 

 cadia at Casco, Maine. This camp in 

 equipment and in spirit is in a class by 

 itself, since it seems to be not a busi- 

 ness but a true living in nearness to 

 nature with all the equipments that 

 civilization can supply and all the nat- 

 ural interests and charm obtainable 

 from a picturesque lake, a stately for- 

 est and rambling countrv roads. Mrs. 

 Cleveland has placed the property 

 valued at some twenty-five thousand 

 dollars, in the ownership of her two 

 young daughters, Dorothy and Phyllis, 

 and she has been fortunate in securing 

 as Camp Mother, Mrs. Cora L. Glea- 

 son of the Perkins Institution, Water- 

 town, Massachusetts, whom the in- 

 mates of the camp know and affection- 

 ately call Mother B. On the staff are 

 several councillors who really love na- 

 ture and have a fair knowledge of her 

 attractions. With these councillors 

 alone there would be a good deal "do- 

 ing" in the way of nature study, but 

 Mrs. Cleveland is herself so personally 

 interested in her girls and is so great 

 a lover of outdoor life that she secures 

 the services of those that have made 

 nature study a life work. She is to be 

 congratulated upon securing the ser- 

 vices of Dallas Lore Sharp, the emi- 

 nent writer, biologist and naturalist. 

 There is perhaps no other person in all 

 this country, except Mr. John Bur- 

 roughs, the Dean of us all, who could 

 more thoroughly stamp genuineness upon 



that special nature study than can Mr. 

 Sharp. We are happy to congratulate 

 the members of Arcadia Camp in the 

 bright outlook for the season of 1918. 

 Address Mrs. Eleanor Cleveland, 29 

 India Street, Boston, Massachusetts. 



TEEA-WAUKET CAMPS. 



In our April number we noticed the 

 Tela-Wauket Camp at Roxbury, Ver- 

 mont, one of the more recent comers 

 into the field of true nature study. In 

 general athleticism and in outdoor liv- 

 ing this camp has for many years ranked 

 among the highest and best in the coun- 

 try. It is in a marvelously beautiful lo- 

 cation and is well equipped. The editor 

 of this magazine will give his personal 

 attention to the nature study there, 

 and he hopes to develop it not only 

 educationally and inspirationally but 

 so that the campers shall see things in 

 accord with the infinite beauty of na- 

 ture. It is believed after careful inves- 

 tigation of an extensive field and the 

 comparing of many catalogues, that 

 here is a camp where real nature study 

 wall accomplish good results. Address 

 Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Roys, Directors, 

 10 Bowdoin Street, Cambridge, Mas- 

 sachusetts. 



A NATURE STUDY CAMP FOR BOYS- 



In our number for April we noticed 

 the Nonowantuc Camp established by 

 Mr. Edward A. C. Murphy. We are 

 confident that Mr. Murphy is not only 

 a good camp manager but a good nat- 

 uralist. We are sure that nature study 

 in his camp will not be neglected nor 

 will it be relegated to the one-hundred- 

 th place ; it will not be "the x in the 

 problem." In the summer of 1917 Mr. 

 Murphy had charge of the bird study 

 and the nature councils in the woods 

 and several nature walks, including a 

 genuine investigation of the beautiful 

 lake, at the Aloha Camp. We include 

 this camp in the list of those in which 

 nature study is genuine and earnest. 

 For further particulars address Mr. 

 Edward A. C. Murphy, Wabanaki 

 School, Greenwich, Connecticut. 



OTHER CAMPS. 



It is the spirit of this magazine, 

 voicing the teachings of The Agassiz 

 Association, to give every aid and en- 

 couragement to the propaganda of na- 

 ture study. If any other camp will 

 show that it is entitled even in the 

 feeblest efforts — if really genuine — to 



