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•explained the various reasons for bird 

 and other wild life conservation. The 

 Conservation Commission on this day 

 •distributed copies of the Bird-day Bul- 

 letin to the children together with Au- 

 ■dobon Society leaflets. The newspapers 

 of the city gave great publicity to the 

 display and the department store in- 

 serted half-page advertisements in the 

 press calling attention to the exhibit. 

 The success of this display has been so 

 marked that President M. L. Alexan- 

 ■der of the Conservation Commission is 

 arranging for a display of the same 

 Tcind four times a year and will also send 

 one on a tour of the state. The interest 

 this exhibit has aroused will result, it 

 has been predicted, in a better obsev- 

 ance of the laws of the state in refer- 

 ence to wild life. 



The Mysteries of Flowers. 



Mr. Herbert W. Faulkner of Wash- 

 ington, Connecticut, has revived this fa- 

 mous lecture. 



The name, William Hamilton Gibson, 

 will recall to nature students throughout 

 our country the splendid work of that 

 distinguished writer, artist and natural- 

 ist, whose lectures on the wild flowers 

 possessed such rare merit and charm. 

 For these lectures Mr. Gibson invented 

 and made many different sets of gigantic 

 moving charts — all colored by hands and 

 true to nature. These charts showed 

 hees and butterflies in the act of visiting 

 the flowers, and by a mechanism that 

 worked like a charm the models gradu- 

 ally changed and displayed the subtle 

 operations of the plant and insect worlds. 

 In this ingenious way, to the keen de- 

 light and edification of his hearers, he 

 demonstrated nature's wonderful scheme 

 for the perpetuation of plant life. 



These charts have lain idle since the 

 •untimely death of Mr. Gibson, while a 

 new generation of nature lovers has 

 grown up who would be charmed by the 

 remarkable revelations of these unique 

 models. 



The name, William Hamilton Gibson, 

 IS well-known to nature lovers. Mr. 

 Faulkner has for several years occupied 

 Mr. Gibson's studio at Washington. 

 Connecticut, and has had the opportu- 

 nity to make a careful study of his speci- 

 mens, writings, drawings and lecture 

 notes. 



A circular giving full particulars of 



these remarkable lectures and ]\Ir. Faulk- 

 ner's treatment of them will be mailed 

 to any one upon application to Herbert 

 W. Faulkner, Ph. B., D. E., Washington, 

 Connecticut. Every nature lover will be 

 pleased to know that these lectures will 

 be available to the present generation. No 

 writer nor lecturer ever succeeded better 

 in inspiring a real love and a real desire 

 to know nature than did Mr. Gibson. 

 The younger generation knows but little 

 of him except through the charm of his 

 books, "Sharp Eyes," "My Studio Neigh- 

 bors," "Eye Spy," and others. These 

 lectures will revive, as far as possible, 

 the wonderful charts and models. 



Goat Eats Tobacco and Bag. 



Summerland, British Columbia, 

 Canada. 

 To the Editor : 



In The Guide to Nature for April, I 

 read two interesting "lessons" on the 

 goat. I should like to add a third. A 

 goat owned by my friend, Professor 

 J — , decided to make me a morning call. 

 Skipping across the yard she stopped to 

 gaze, also to graze, on the strawberry 

 bed. In a short time that strawberry bed 

 was a minus quantity. Seeing a white 

 object lying near a tree she investigated 

 that. It was a cotton flour sack contain- 

 ing ten pounds of twist tobacco. She ate 

 nearly all the tobacco and part of the 

 sack; on a second visit she finished the 

 tobacco and left only a few shreds of the 

 sack. Sincerely vours, 



I\Irs. Eva C. Van Hise. 



Mr. D. M. Barringer, in the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Philadelphia Academy 

 for September argues that the so- 

 called "Meteor Crater" in Arizona, was 

 actually formed by the impact of a 

 meteor, probably a portion of the head 

 of a small comet. 



A contribution to natural history 

 comes to hand in a post-card photograph 

 of a "two-mile auto bridge over Little 

 Egg Harbor Bay," the roadway of which 

 is for a long distance strewn with broken 

 clam-shells. The post-card naturalist 

 says : "The white tl;ings you see are 

 clam-shells. The sea-gulls get clams from 

 the flats and flv no high and drop them 

 to break the shells so they can eat the 

 clams. The bridge-tender has to sweep 

 them ofif everv day, they cut the tires so." 

 —The Outlook. 



