Monthly Bulletin 



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birds which sweep over the tiny island in their migratory flights east, west, 

 north, and south. 



As far as sanctuary goes, the sea birds, at any rate, have just made it 

 this for centuries, without any regard at all for the humans who have come 

 and gone. They were there, shrieking aroiuid its crags, when the goddess 

 Hetha, the special object of veneration among the Angles of the mainland, 

 had a temple on Heligoland; when the pagan King Radbod ruled there, 

 and when St. Willibrod came to the island, in the Seventh Century, preaching 

 Christianity. And so it has continued ever since. 



The great naturalist, Heinrich Gaetke, made Heligoland famous as an 

 ornithological observation station. He studied the subject of the migration 

 of birds and bird life at all seasons at his observatory on the island with 

 little cessation or interruption, day after day, and night after night for fifty 

 years and more, and from these studies, as he himself says, he was led to 

 recognize that the little island presented an undreamed of wealth of material, 

 valuable to this so mysterious study, and indeed was in this respect "superior 

 to the proudest empire of the earth." 



The passage of the world from war to peace may be signalized in many 

 ways, but none could, surely, be more striking than the transforming of the 

 grim naval base of Heligoland into a bird Sanctuary. 



LIFE MEMBERS RECEIVED DURING APRIL. 

 Osborn, John B. 17 Keswick St., Boston. 



SUSTAINING MEMBERS RECEIVED DURING APRIL. 



Ames, Amyas 



Bacon, Miss Isabel Craig 



Bancroft, Mrs. H. H. 



Bedford, Thomas P. 



Branch, H. C. 



Callaghan, Mrs. Alice Holman 



Chase, Frank H. 



Comtois, Rev. J. 0. 



Denham, Miss Ella Norwood 



Dixon, Mrs. Frederick 



Eastman, Mrs. E. P. 



Fairbanks, J. W. 



Flynn, William F. 



Fortnightly Club, The 



Gerrish, Dr. G. H. 



Giliotti, Louis 



Grant, Miss J. F. 



Grimes & Harris 



Healy, J. Ward 



Holstein, George J. 



Lee, Miss Elizabeth A. 



Monk, Miss Susie N. 



Nealley, Mrs. H. A. 



Nowak, Rabbi Abraham 



Orne, Harold J. 



North Easton. 



986 Charles River Road, Cambridge. 



Millbury. 



66 Pleasant St., Worcester. 



Webster. 



Holden. 



120 Hemenway St., Boston. 



Millbury. 



Rochester, N. H. 



1101 Beacon St., Brookline. 



719 Columbia St., Burlington, Iowa. 



45 South St., Westboro. 



Westboro. 



Leominster. 



22 Ash St., Spencer. 



37 Elm St., Westboro. 



213 Huntington Ave., Boston. 



Leominster. 



Leominster. 



923 N. 7th St., Burlington, Iowa. 



42 Park St., Maiden. 



Framingham Centre. 



16 Gardner Road, Newton. 



28 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. 



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