The Audubon Societies 49 



might well have a Publicity Committee, or, if you will, an "Orientation Com- 

 mittee," whose duty it should be to more thoroughly present the work of the 

 Audubon Society to all whom it may concern. The postage used in such a 

 campaign would be well spent, we may be assured. — A. H. W. 



NOTE 



Teachers and organizers of Junior Audubon Societies will receive instruc- 

 tions and material much more quickly, if they apply directly to the headquarters 

 of The National Association of Audubon Societies. All that is necessary in 

 making application to form such societies is to collect a fee of ten cents from 

 each person desiring to become a member, and to forward the total amount, with 

 a request for material, to Mr. T. Gilbert Pearson, 1974 Broadway, New York, 

 N. Y. 



JUNIOR AUDUBON ^A^ORK 

 For Teachers and Pupils 



Exercise XXXI: Correlated with Geography, History and 

 Story-Telling 



We are not through with the subject of bird-music, but, during these coldest 

 of months, it may not come amiss to take up a little studied matter which fits 

 in well with the stories we love to hear around the fire of an evening, and the 

 games we enjoy indoors while snow falls fast or wild winter winds blow. It is a 

 matter which reminds one of pioneer days, tales one has read or has had the good 

 fortune to hear from the lips of grandfather or grandmother, who repeated 

 them as they had heard them from an older generation. 



In 1905, there was issued from the Government Printing Office at Wash- 

 ington the second edition of a bulletin entitled The Origin of Certain Place 

 Names in the United States. This bulletin, which is marked No. 258 in Series F, 

 Geography, 45, was prepared by Mr. Henry Gannett for the United States 

 Geological Survey, under the Department of the Interior. It represents an 

 enormous amount of study and correspondence, and places at our disposal 

 in brief form a delightful and suggestive amount of information not otherwise 

 available in a single volume. 



Did you ever stop to think, when you are studying the lesson for the day 

 in geography, how many kinds of place names may be found on the map of 

 our country? Take a random list, such as this, Chester, Fort Monroe, Halsey- 

 ville, Isle au Chene, Kotzebue, North Hero, Oconomowoc, Ohio, Toronto, 

 Wilkes Barre, Ypsilanti, Zaralla. Indian, Spanish and Aztec names run side by 

 side down the pages of your geography with ones of English, Greek, Mexican, 

 French and Dutch origin. Each one contains a precious bit of association with 

 some man, nation, place, natural object, historical event or custom which at 



