REPORT OP THE PISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 101 



REPORT OF BUREAU OF EDUCATION, PUBLICITY AND 



RESEARCH. 



The Honorable Board of Fish and Game Commissioners 

 of the State of California. 

 Gentlemen : We have the honor to submit herewith the first biennial 

 report of the Bureau of Education, Publicity and Research, covering 

 the period from the institution of the bureau in September, 1914, to the 

 end of the fiscal year 1915-16. 



Organization. 



At a called meeting held in San Francisco on July 5, 1914, your 

 honorable board unanimously passed a resolution embodying the insti- 

 tution of educational and publicity work to be carried on by a suitable 

 assistant who should be given the title of Game Expert and placed under 

 civil service. In September, 1914, the present director assumed tem- 

 porary charge of the new bureau and -later qualified under civil service. 

 A definite scheme of operation was immediately worked out and the 

 bureau has followed in a general way the original plans laid down. 

 The work accomplished has naturally been limited, owing to the fact 

 that the duties fell upon one individual. An office was established at the 

 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, where 

 opportunities for imdisturbed work and library and museum facilities 

 were of the best. With the permission of your board the head of the 

 bureau continued to hold a position with the University of California 

 as Economic Ornithologist. 



As the name of the bureau signifies, the work is of three kinds: 

 education, publicity, and research. This report therefore will fall 

 under these three headings. 



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Education. 

 Salisbury Wild Life Pictures. During the fall of 1914 the Fish 

 and Game Commission cooperated in displaying throughout the state 

 the Salisbury Wild Life Pictures. These films were obtained by E. A. 

 Salisbury, director of the Educational Film Company of Los Angeles, in 

 southern Oregon and northeastern California. In that the pictures 

 illustrate the life histories of some of the common game birds and 

 mammals of the state of California and vividly portrayed some of the 

 fundamental aspects of wild life conservation, the commission felt 

 justified in giving them support. For several weeks in the fall of 1914 

 the Director of the Bureau of Education, Publicity, and Research, 

 traveled about the state giving lectures with these pictures and empha- 

 sizing wild life conservation. On a single trip alone in the San Joaquin 

 Valley, over 10,000 people saw the pictures and heard the lectures. 



