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Bird- Lore 



DR. SWOPE'S SUMMER SCHOOL CLASS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, JUST IN FROM 

 A BIRD-WALK. NOTE THE WATERMELONS! 



country, gave a course of four weeks in bird-study at the University of Georgia. 

 Several hundred attended these classes. A number of public lectures were 

 given to the entire Summer School of 1,300 members. 



Prof. H. G. McGowan conducted a four-weeks' course in bird-study at the 

 University of Mississippi, with worth-while results. 



Dr. H. F. Perkins, of the University of Vermont, continued his bird-teach- 

 ing efforts again this summer. Fifteen pupils took the course. He also gave 

 public lectures to the entire Summer School. 



Miss Belle Williams, of Columbia, S. C, taught a month's course in bird- 

 study at the State Normal College at Winthrop, S. C. The students did not 

 work for credit. Her classes numbered from twenty to fifty. 



Dr. Witmer Stone, of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 

 gave more than a month's lecture-work in South Carolina, lecturing to students 

 of the State University at Columbia, to members of the Charleston Museum, 

 to the people of Manning, and at a number of teachers' gatherings. 



The most striking development of our summer-school work this year has 

 been the readiness with which some of the college authorities have been per- 

 suaded to give college credit to students who successfully completed the course 

 provided by our instructors. Such a thing as giving credit for a summer- 

 school course in bird-study was unheard of not many years ago. 



Again we would urge that members who are interested in the educational 

 phase of the Association's work should consider the possibility of helping 

 to support this field of activity. A moment's reflection will readily convince 

 one of the importance of thus reaching these thousands of teachers gathered in 



