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aday, a most intimitate student of wild animals, to give us a code 

 of wild animal rights. It has taken eminent botanists like Profes- 

 sor and Mrs. Britton to tell the world what are the rights of our 

 wild flowers. It has taken the most eminent foresters to tell us 

 how to treat the trees ; and our greatest ornithologists are the ones 

 who are fighting for the rights of the birds. It stands to reason 

 that to respect the rights of any plant or animal, we must know it 

 when we see it, and know something of its habits. No other force 

 will be so potent in preserving the wild life in our great reservations 

 as Nature-Study, taught thoroughly and sanely in the Public 

 Schools. 



Conservation Societies 



We publish in this number leaflets of two conservation societies 

 that are doing a great work in the eastern United States in preserv- 

 ing wild plants. We publish these circulars because we wish to 

 spread the knowledge which they give freely to all our readers. 

 This is done with a hope that at least some of our readers may 

 start local conservation clubs or societies that will carry the good 

 work on, for it is a work much needed; and so valuable that the 

 future citizens of our Republic will rise up and call blessed those 

 who have the wisdom and the energy and the love for the out-of- 

 doors that will lead them to start such a movement. 



Caught in the Editorial Web 



Recently there has come a S.O.S. call from some of our "alivest" 

 readers for information concerning the contributors to the Nature 

 Study Review. We Nature lovers are like a big family anyway, 

 and it is natural enough that we desire to know something more 

 about each other in order that a true family intimacy may be es- 

 tablished. It is far more important to us than it could be to the 

 readers of the Atlantic or Ladies Home Journal to know about 

 contributors to those periodicals, for in their case the information 

 merely satisfies curiosity; while in the case of the readers of our 

 modest magazine closer acquaintance means closer imion. 



The editor does not claim to know all about all of our contribu- 

 tors, but she knows a lot of things about many of them which she is 

 willing to share with the Review readers as far as the situation 

 requires, so "here goes:" 



