A. R. Wallace 



Charles Eliot 



National Assn. 

 Audubon 



Societies 



James Bryce 



onies and pai'tly on ilie knowledge that Itiologists 

 have gained in recent years concerning bird and 

 other wikl life conservation: To establish a 

 systematic chain of reserves, large or small as 

 opportunity serves but selected always with well- 

 studied reference to the preservation and favor- 

 able exhibit of the native forest and other floras, 

 the bird and other faunas of their region; and to 

 choose these areas, also, so as to make of each, so 

 for as possible, a scenic reservation and a i)ark, 

 contributing to liealth and pleasure and tlie de- 

 velopment of a love for nature. 



Each such reserve would thus contribute — 

 variously, according to its character — toward 

 these general ends: (1) the preservation of the 

 native forest flora, its trees and underi)lants ; (2) 

 the preservation of bird and other forms of ani- 

 mal life, natively inhabiting the forest; (o) op- 

 portunity for scientific observation and study of 

 these both, existing naturally under their original 

 conditions; (4) conservation, in the i)ublic inter- 

 est, of beautiful and inspiring landscapes; (5) 

 the establishment of a means of study for plant- 

 ers, landscape architects and foresters who have 

 work to plan and carry out in the surrounding 

 region. 



In certain places, one or the other of these 

 objects would be dominant — as bird sanctuaries 

 along the shore from Cape Cod soutliwnrd, or 

 scenic reservations in tracts of excei)tionally 

 striking scenery, such as mountain heights and 

 river gorges or beautiful coast landscapes. 



To the development of landscape work along 

 broad and natural lines — work soundly based on 

 nature — nothing that could else be done, no train- 



