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Hot very long after, I was talking to 

 ]lr# ^or^tMf y^o umB a baokallding ornithologist 

 nho !ia€ gone direr to the fishes^ I teld hia 1 ' 

 was thinking of giving a series of bird talks and 

 ealling it Seonomle Ornithology^ enqphasizing the 

 ^eonisaii YAlu# ©f "bird life. 



He said, **I think it would be a good things 

 X don't think people know what insects would (b 

 to ui if there were no birds. They would 

 aaxltiply so that they would overwhelm ui#^ 



X gave a series of four lectures at the 

 TTniversity of California stiraraer school. Later 

 when my children's book. Busby & Coinpany j was 

 brotight out, the publishers thought lecturing to 

 libraries would be a good way to piromote the book. 



So for the last three or four years I've beea^ 

 talkijig to libraries in San Franeiseo. X bring 

 specimens with me to the library and they invite 

 maybe three or four classes from the neighboring 

 •ehooXs to eoaae in. I have been invited to 

 lecture in the San Francisco libraries fcr 

 0hildren*8 Book Week this month. Children show ft 

 great deal of interest, particularly in things like 



