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Indeed, this club is ideal as to its membership which is made up 

 on the one hand of botanists, zoologists, entomologists and other 

 scientists of noteworthy achievement, and on the other hand of 

 many nature lovers who belong just because they are nature lovers, 

 and who through association with other learners are gaining powers 

 of observation and ability to unravel for themselves the mysteries 

 of life in the fields and forests and especially of the lake shores. If 

 Chicago can have a nature-study club, so vigorous and successful, 

 there is no reason why any other city in the United States should 

 not have one, — ^no reason except that it lacks the people who com- 

 bine the love of nature with enough "pep" to carry on such a club 

 successfully. 



The work of the Chicago club is not merely for the present, but 

 is for future generations as well, since it has taken an important 

 and practical part in the preservation of wild life and the establish- 

 ment of areas where it and the natural beauty of the scenery may 

 be protected and conserved for all time. 



3n iHemoriam 



Ada E. Georgia 



The news of the death of Miss Georgia which occurred at Ithaca 

 on the eighth of January will come as a shock to many of our 

 readers who knew this remarkable woman personally. She came 

 to Cornell in the early days of the nature-study movement as an 

 assistant to "Uncle" John Spencer in his great work with the 

 Junior Naturalist Clubs. Later she assisted the Editor in carry- 

 ing on the Home Nature-Study Course and still later was associated 

 with Mr. W. P. Alexander in teaching and conducting the field trips 

 in Farm Nature-Study, in the Cornell College of Agriculture. 



Miss Georgia was always efficient in her work as assistant or 

 teacher; her mind was stored with information on a wide range of 

 subjects for she was an indefatigable reader; her knowledge of 

 plant life was very great and learned largely from observation. 

 Her great contribution to science is A Manual of Weeds, the best 

 book on the subject yet published in America. A wide circle of 

 friends and admirers will feel her loss deeply as does the Editor who 

 had the privilege of close association with her for many years. 



