102 REPORT OF THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



The success of these films in eastern states and the comments upon them 

 received from conservationists, have fully justified the effort made by 

 the commission to place them before the people of this state. 



Lectures. JNIore than one hundred illustrated lectures have been 

 given by this bureau in various parts of the state. These have adver- 

 tised the wild life resources of California and have carried the message 

 of conservation to farmers' organizations, women's clubs, Audubon 

 societies, high schools, grammar schools, and boy scouts. 



Fig. 61. Young mountain lions. From Salisbury's wild life pictures. (Courtesy Mr. E. A. 



Salisbury.) 



A series of lectures was given during the spring semester of 1915 and 

 again in 1916 in a course in advanced vertebrate zoology in the 

 University of California, the students of which are prospective teachers. 

 Several lectures were also given in a zoology course based largely upon 

 the animal life of Berkeley and the Bay region. Through the coopera- 

 tion of the forestry department of the University of California, a series 

 of six lectures on game and game conservation was given during the 

 spring semester of 1915 in a course on forest protection. These lectures 

 reached many outsiders in addition to the fifty students registered in 

 the course, for the series was open to the public. During the spring 

 semester of 1916, a similar series of nine lectures v/as given before the 

 350 registered students in a course on general forestry and the many 

 outsiders attracted by the publicity given the lectures. It is peculiarly 

 fitting that forestry students in California should have a fundamental 

 knowledge of wild life, for many of those entering forest service work 

 in this state will become game wardens by virtue of their positions. 

 The success of these series of lectures is in a measure due to Professor 

 "Walter Mulford, head of the Department of Forestry, who encouraged 



