330 NATURE STUDY REVIEW 



Chickens sailed on outstretched wing further afield, all dis- 

 agreeableness was more than overcorne. Among the dust- 

 covered weeds of the roadside even I noticed something new to 

 me, the Bracted Plantain, Plantago aristata. 



An otherwise monotonous lesson is the classroom often 

 enlivened by the call of the Meadowlark or Killdeer, Bluebird 

 or Goldfinch. In the trees, before my study-room windows 

 in Ottawa I often watched the Red-eyed and Warbling Vireos, 

 the Wood Pewee and Yellow Warbler, the Least Flycatcher and 

 Robin singing or nest-building. 



In this manner and otherwise, nature, after one has made 

 her acquaintance, cheers one, makes life more pleasant and agree- 

 able, inspires one anew continually and revives the sometimes 

 drooping spirit. This I would call the practical side of the 

 aesthetic value of Nature Study. 



Sand Dunes and Forests 



WoRRALLO Whitney 



5743 Dorchester Ave., Chicago, 111. 



There are many phases of the struggle that is ceaselessly going 

 on between plants and the sand dunes of the Lake Michigan 

 shores. Among the most interesting and really tragical of these 

 is the burial of forests by the moving sand. 



The dunes have many approaches in their destructive work. 

 In some cases the dune comes on as an avalanche of sand many 

 feet in height — often towering above even the tallest trees of 

 the forest. The forest has no chance against such an advance. 

 It is utterly destroyed, the trees being engulfed as they stand, 

 and we have literally a buried forest. The dune usually keeps 

 moving on, piling the sand up in its front and removing the sand 

 in its rear. Thus the buried forest may be uncovered long 

 after its burial. Then we have what is known on the Michigan 

 shores as a "forest graveyard." The dead trees stand stark and 

 bare like so many skeletons to tell the story of the advance of the 

 dune over a once luxuriant forest. 



The approach of the sand, instead of forming a steep slope, 

 is often very gradual, with gentle slopes. In this case the sand 



