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Editorial 



THE NATURALIST IN CAMP 



The soldier who is a naturalist certainly has a very important 

 advantage over his less favored comrades. Most of our soldiers, 

 so recently peaceful citizens following their various walks in 

 life, find little in their new environment which interested them 

 before they entered the army; even their recreations to a great 

 degree, belong to a new order and a different world. Not so the 

 Naturalist! During any leisure he may have that gives him 

 even an hour away from barracks, he finds the same interesting 

 world that he has always known and loved, and a place where he 

 is at once at home. Even though he find in field and wood many 

 new acquaintances among the plants and animals, yet each extends 

 to him a friendly greeting and a pressing invitation to stay as 

 long as possible and to come again soon. 



Much evidence bearing on this fact has come to the Editor 

 who has had many pupils and student friends who have changed 

 the vasculum for the rifle, the insect-net for the Browning gun, 

 or have been transformed from bird-students into bird-men. 

 Soldiers from the North find much that interests them in the 

 fauna and flora in the environment of Southern camps. One 

 writes of studying the cotton, and another of the birds he had 

 never seen before. One student in horticulture, and well fitted 

 for eminence in that field, writes home with enthusiasm of the 

 flowers he has found blooming in France. These letters prove 

 most perturbing to the Censor, who being entirely ignorant of 

 botany and the Latin language, found in the impressive scientific 



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