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would be full of chat about this gathering, and 

 each child would naturally bring much of the 

 knowledge gained into his own home, and thus 

 the parents would indirectly become enlightened 

 upon natural history subjects, on which they are 

 usually deplorably ignorant. 



These humble suggestions are offered as being 

 the best means I can at present bring forward in 

 order to attain the end we have in view, and in a 

 measure they apply equally to young people in a 

 higher position in life, who would, I believe, 

 welcome little informal meetings for the reading 

 of the papers they may have written, and the 

 attainment from their elders of further informa- 

 tion on the life-histories of animals and birds. 

 I earnestly hope that still better plans may be 

 evoked from others as a result of bringing this 

 subject prominently forward. 



I must draw attention to an excellent idea 

 borrowed from Miss Carrington's book on " The 

 Extermination of Birds," and it is that our young 

 people who desire to possess collections of birds' 

 eggs should be encouraged to model them in wax 

 and colour them precisely according to nature. 



