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his two sons, John, Jr., and Toin, myself, and 

 a photographer, Mr. Coquille, of New Orleans. 

 The other boat, named the Royal Tern, was the 

 property of the Audubon Society, being allotted 

 to the work of cruising among and protecting 

 the bird colonies on those islands set apart as 

 bird refuges by the National and State Govern 

 ments. On this boat which had a wretched 

 engine, almost worthless -- went Mr. Herbert 

 K. Job and Mr. Frank M. Miller. Mr. Miller 

 was at one time president of the Louisiana Con 

 servation Commission, and the founder of the 

 Louisiana State Audubon Society, and is one 

 of the group of men to whom she owes it that 

 she, the home state of Audubon, of our first 

 great naturalist, is now thoroughly awake to 

 the danger of reckless waste and destruction 

 of all the natural resources of the State, includ 

 ing the birds. Mr. Herbert K. Job is known 

 to all who care for bird study and bird preserva 

 tion. He is a naturalist who has made of bird- 

 photography a sport, a science, and an art. 

 His pictures, and his books in which these pic 

 tures appear, are fascinating both to the scien 

 tific ornithologist and to all lovers of the wild 

 creatures of the open. Like the other field 

 naturalists I have known, like the men who 

 were with me in Africa and South America, 



