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THE OOLOGIST 



Passenger Pigeon form a valuable ad- 

 dition to this splendid collection. 



As a center of education for dis- 

 seminating knowledge of our wild life, 

 the Museum aims to be of benefit to 

 the students of our schools, and to 

 aid those who in later life desire to 

 pursue this most interesting study. 

 It is felt that if a love of God's wild 

 creatures can be instilled in the 

 hearts and minds of growing children 

 there would be less robbing of nests 

 and a diminishing use of the small 

 rifle among the younger generations 

 which already threaten the extinction 

 of 30 many of these useful and neces- 

 sary creatures. To this end the Audu- 

 bon Club of Norristown, which has 

 adopted the Museum as its permanent 

 home, meets regularly throughout the 

 year. This Society, organized March 

 27th, 1911 for the study, protection 

 and conservation of wild life, pro- 

 motes a series of lectures each year 

 which tend to forcibly reveal to all 

 the necessity for such measures. 



Lecturers of note deliver their dis- 

 courses before large audiences to 

 which the public is admitted free of 

 charge. Nearly all the lectures are 

 illustrated with colored lantern slides 

 and motion pictures are always shown. 



For many years the Club took trips 

 to the first home in America of John 

 James Audubon, located at Audubon, 

 Pa., just outside of Norristown, where 

 much valuable data was obtained in 

 the nesting season. The Club has 

 also promoted bird box contests 

 among the school children which 

 were highly successful and which pro- 

 vided a large number of homes for 

 the feathered folk in our beautiful 

 Elmwood Park here. 



And so from the inspiration and life 

 work of William H. Werner a new 

 generation has taken up an avocation 

 which he loved so well and which 

 through the superiority of his genius 

 in a day when there was no one to 

 teach or to coach him has left to the 

 world a thing of beauty and a joy 

 forever. 



