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their protection, and copies of the game and bird laws should 

 be put in the hands of every gunner and every other person who 

 takes any interest in game birds or gunning. Will not some 

 friend of the birds, well supplied with the means, generously 

 render such a propaganda possible? A great work was accom- 

 plished in New York when Dr. Wm. T. Hornaday, director of 

 the New York Zoological Park, wrote a book entitled Our 

 Vanishing Wild Life, and members of the Zoological Society 

 financed its production and placed a copy in the hands of each 

 member of Congress and each member of every Legislature 

 in the United States. Some similar but lesser publication 

 should be sent free of charge to a large number of people in 

 Massachusetts annually, but ]3ossibly such an undertaking- 

 must wait for a philanthropist yet unborn. 



