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and help, and I should look forward with much pleasure to the prospect 

 of repeating it. I believe every individual who enjoyed the privileges 

 of the Camp is hoping to be again a member of the interested and con- 

 genial circle that gathered at the foot of Wigwam Hill last summer. 



Edward Howe Fobbush. 

 Ornithologist, Massachusstts State Board of Agriculture, 



The school for teachers and nature students at Wigwam Hill has all 

 the elements of success. 



The situation is perfect. 



Under the crag of Wigwam, on the old Indian camping ground, front- 

 ing a lake seven miles in length, it is retired but accessible. The 

 environment of wood, lake, brook, meadow, field and hill is all that 

 could be desired for nature study. 



Add to these natural advantages an able manager full of enthusiasm 

 for the work and alive to the altruistic tendencies of the age, and we 

 have a combination which insures success. Such a man the Worcester 

 Natural History Society has in its president. 



Regarding my own specialty, ornithology, he has chosen the right 

 path in advocating the study of the living birds and the means for 

 attracting and protecting them about the farm and the home, preserving 

 and increasing the numbers. 



There is now a crying need of this kind of work, for already inany 

 birds have decreased much in numbers and some have been exterminated 

 by man's persecution. 



There is no better place to begin this instruction than among those 

 whose work and mission is to teach the children. The children of our 

 race should be taught to feed and protect birds, to put up bird houses 

 and nesting boxes and to plant food plants and trees to attract the birds 

 about our homes. 



If the American people fail to protect birds from their own children 

 and the host of bird killing foreigners that are landing on our shores, 

 they will one day have cause bitterly to regret the neglect of this plain 

 duty. 



The Natural History Camp for teachers and nature students is unique 

 in this respect among others that it is to be a pioneer in this excellent 

 work for humanity and the birds. 



Delia M. Hale. 

 Teacher, Upsala Street School, Worcester, I\fass. 



"To go, or not to go. That was the question," but should a like 



opportunity be offered for next summer there would be not the slightest 



hesitation "to go," by all means. 



