NEWS NOTES 357 



Edible and poisonous mushrooms are plentiful in Sherwood Forest. (Do not 

 cook a mushroom unless you are certain that it is edible) , 



Mr, A. F. Satterthwait in charge of the U. S, Entomological Laboratory 

 located in Sherwood Forest has invited the members to visit the laboratory. 

 It is planned to eat lunch under the trees near the laboratory and to have 

 Mr. Satterthwait make an informal explanation of the purpose of su h an 

 institution. 



Those who wish may return home after lunch. The others will find the walk 

 west of Sherwood Forest along the Frisco right of way interesting. 



It is suggested that a list be made of summer resident birds still with us. 

 Other trips. — Monk's Mound (Cahokia Mound) and vicinity, October second 

 or ninth. Allenton — Fox Creek, October i6, 23, 30. 



Dues may be paid at the annual meeting or the first field trip, at the after 

 noon college classes, or check may be sent to Mr. Drushel at the early con- 

 venience of the member. 



CALIFORNIA 



Information was recently sent out by the California Nature-Study League 

 concerning the Nature-Study Guide Movement in our National Parks; and also 

 concerning the Save The Redwood League, of California. The feeling upper- 

 most in our mind after reading them is that of thankfulness that in these days 

 of men's selfish eft'orts to harness nature for their own benefit, there are living, 

 men of vision and of power who will devote their lives to the preservation of 

 the natural wonders of our country. And at the same time these men are 

 tireless in their efforts to teach an appreciation of nature, making us a country 

 of nature-lovers. 



Save The Redwood League 



About the time, according to some authorities, that Moses and his people 

 were suffering in the desert, a tiny seed, wafted by a Sierran breeze, left an 

 opening cone and aeroplaned to the needled forest floor. It sprouted. Today 

 it is the world's oldest living thing — a California Sequoia. When Alexander 

 dreamed the same dream of world domination that later did the Kaiser, this 

 redwood was a vigorous sapling. It was still young when Caesar ,gazing at 

 the chalk cliffs of Dover, called England "Albion." 



Our redwood fought and conquered all enemies, until one day there came 

 into Sequoia-land a wave of men from that same Albion. These men were 

 puny in size compared to the forest giant. Note the man in white at the cross 

 in the photograph. These men, however, had skill with machinery, and, 

 moreover, were money-hungry. They felled our redwoods and turned them 

 into jingling gold. 



If trees have souls, as one poet declares they have, how our patrician Sequoia 

 must have lamented at this sacrilege. Some of the men who were cutting the 

 trees boasted that their ancestors had crossed the channel with William the 

 Conqueror. How the proud Sequoias must have scornfully exclaimed 

 "Upstarts!" For the Sequoia's ancestors, hundreds of thousands of years 

 before, had held a forest empire stretching from the icebergs of far northern 

 Spitzbergen and from Greenland's glaciers to New Zealand, almost the last 

 stopping place before the South Pole. The Sequoia race knew the days of the 

 saber-tooth tiger, knew when camels roamed California, knew when peacocks 

 were wild here. No one could boast to them of ancient lineage. 



