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Such also will serve as an example and give weight to the idea 
through its support by the state supported institution of learn- 
ing. 
3. The encouragement of high schools, societies, or other 
institutions, in gaining control over tracts of land for the pur- 
pose of preserving the wild life native or breeding thereon, 
such control to be either by lease or agreement. 
4. The accumulation of data bearing on the location and 
nature of tracts suitable to the purposes above named. 
5. And, finally, the editing and publishing of a booklet in 
which shall be set forth definite principles of wild life protec- 
tion, as well as appeals to the public thought in order to bring 
about the same. This publication, it is believed, should be 
profusely illustrated in order that it shall appeal to old and 
young alike. It should be distributed to the teachers of biology 
in all high schools, and find its place in all public libraries. 
Were it possible, every school in the state should be supplied 
with it. Its distribution outside of the state should be made at 
a nominal cost above that of publication, and such sale would 
assist materially in defraying the cost of its production. This 
element in its recommendations, the committee feels to be 
most fundamental to the ultimate purpose before set forth. 
R. E, WAGER. 
H. C. Cow es. 
H. S. PEpoon. 
FRANK SMITH. 
Committee. 
