82 FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF EDUCATION AND RESEARCH. 



By Harold C. Bryant, In Charge. 

 EDUCATION. 



Lectures. 



A greatly increased demand for lectures has been noticeable during 

 the past biennial period. Outstanding has been the demand from 

 service clubs. Numerous conservation lectures have been furnished 

 Rotary, Kiwanis, and other service clubs. School requests have also 

 been unusually heavy. Although the majority of lectures have been 

 given at high schools, yet grammar schools have come in for a fair 

 share. Boy Scout and Camp Fire organizations have been furnished 

 numerous lectures and field trips. As in the past, contributions to 

 scoutmasters and leaders training courses have been considered most 

 valuable in that through the training of leaders the gospel of conserva- 

 tion is more easily spread. In the spring of 1925, six lectures on fish 

 and game were given in a university course in Forestry 1, as in former 

 years. 



Preceding Christmas, 1925, the San Francisco Bulletin imported a 

 team of reindeer from Alaska. These deer attached to a sleigh and 

 accompanied by a Santa Claus were shown to thousands of San Fran- 

 cisco school children. Since the exhibition to schools gave a worthwhile 

 opportunity to give a lesson in big game conservation, a lecturer was 

 furnished by this bureau. After a discussion of the life history and 

 habits of the reindeer attention was called to the need for conserva- 

 tion of other members of the deer family. 



Under the direction of the county superintendent of schools, Sonoma 

 County teachers emphasize bird study during the fall months. Last 

 year, this special study ended with a midwinter contest participated 

 in by children throughout the county. A lecturer from this bureau 

 showed various common birds on the screen and the children were 

 expected to write down the name. All those who accurately named 

 twenty-five or more birds were given a badge. 



Three lectures have been broadcasted over the radio. Returns have 

 shown large audiences not limited to California, but distributed 

 throughout the west. Executive officer, B. D. Marx Greene, has also 

 utilized this means of carrying a message to western sportsmen and 

 nature lovers. 



Considerable aid in the educational program has been given by 

 employees outside the Bureau of Education and Research. In recent 

 months the commissioners themselves have given many talks before 

 fish and game protective associations and the executive officer has 

 been especially active in aiding this necessary work. Lectures have 

 also been given by Rolin G. Watkins, in charge of publicity, Jay Bruce, 

 state lion hunter, and August Bade, superintendent of the Yountville 

 Game Farm. Talks in schools and before other organizations have 

 been given by many of the deputies. 



Reference to the following table will show a total of 166 lectures with 

 an attendance of 42,366. This added to the total attendance for the 

 summer resort work makes a grand total of more than 137,000 persons 

 who have heard a conservation message by medium of the spoken word. 



