AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 265 



Miss Clara Barton. 

 President of the National First Aid Association of America. 



Extract made from address at Natural History Camp, Aug. 13, 1905. 



"The study, skill, research, the up-to-date information developed and 

 imparted here exceeds anything of the kind I have ever known. At the 

 usual summer gatherings for the discussion and interchange of ideas, 

 one is accustomed to hear volumes of abstract themes, both possible 

 and impossible advanced, speculated upon and threshed out until the 

 brain is so confused and muddled that only forgetfulness of the entire 

 subject can ever clear up and settle it. But here all is tangible, some- 

 thing to be seen, felt, handled, lived among, sensible, practical, useful, 

 and so far from striving to forget, one lies awake at night to fix it in 

 memory, lest some fact escape. I believe it was only the high regard 

 I felt for the work that is being accomplished here that gave me courage 

 to come and say the few words I am requested to say upon the subject 

 of "First Aid to the Injured." 



Annabel C. Roe. 

 Teacher, Worcester, Mass. 



When the idea of making the Natural History Camp a part of my 

 vacation first suggested itself, I was a little skeptical about enjoying a 

 campout within ten minute's walk of frivolous Lincoln Park and the 

 White City and within five cent's worth of home; but the idea vanished 

 in the experience, and I think now one could pitch a tent in the back 

 yard and forget all about civilization. 



Somehow I had never realized before how beautiful the lake region 

 was and how much undiscovered country lay in my native district. The 

 walk by the lake path with the unexpected finding of the crested shield 

 fern, the tramp on the Shrewsbury side with the sight of the rare 

 buckthorn and the old tree in its rock bed, the stroll up Coal Mine Brook 

 on the lookout for bugs with the Forbes boys will always be among my 

 pleasant memories. Then too the lectures often opened the frontier 

 region of the mind and mapped in one corner clam anatomy, another 

 summer posies or caterpillar history. The talk on stars in fact made 

 such an impression that I immediately purchased "Astronomy with an 

 "Opera Glass" and I am now finding the walk home from evening school 

 the more enjoyable from this new interest. 



Added to these of course were the delights of just living in a tent, 

 the half picnic suppers from tin cups, and the sociability of the place 

 with its song and dance, shadow pantomine and chatter. We were 

 fortunate in experiencing both sunny and rainy weather as I think every 

 one should who wants an all-round good time. It was a picnic from 

 first to last, of a sort worth living again. 



