82 PISH AND GAME COMMISSION 



REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF EDUCATION 



By H. C. Bryant, In Charge 



PERSONNEL 



Until the past two years, the Bureau of Education has been largely 

 a one-man department. Kecently, however, there has come the first real 

 opportunity for expansion in personnel and a resultant increased serv- 

 ice to the public. It seemed best to give attention first to the growing 

 editorial work connected with the publications of the Commission and 

 to the better care and distribution of motion picture films. Mr. Kodney 

 Ellsworth came to the bureau with a background of experience in edu- 

 cational work in Yosemite and Sequoia national parks and as the author 

 of a well-known treatise on the sequoia. The building of a worth-while 

 technical library for the use of department heads and conservation 

 workers was the next duty given the bureau. Mrs. Bessie W. Kibbe, 

 long a student of birds and with considerable business experience, was 

 secured as librarian. Need of increased knowledge of the life history 

 and habits of game and nongame species, the necessity for a study col- 

 lection of birds to be used for reference and for illustration, and the 

 need of additional investigations concerning the relation of birds to 

 agriculture led to the appointment of Mr. Donald McLean. Mr. 

 MeLean came to the bureau with a splendid knowledge of field zoology, 

 leaving a position as assistant park naturalist in Yosemite National 

 Park to accept the position with the division. Demands for lecture pro- 

 grams in the schools led to the appointment of Mrs. 0. P. Brownlow, 

 who has accomplished splendid results in stimulating the teaching of 

 conservation in elementary schools. In the spring of 1928, the formu- 

 lating of a wide program of education in the schools and in such organi- 

 zations as boy scouts and camp fire girls was placed in charge of Mr. 

 George Holmes. Miss Madeleine Monell has continued as secretary. 

 The increased service which the bureau has been able to render has been 

 gratifying, but the perturbing thing is that the demands for services 

 now far exceed the ability of the augmented staff to handle them. 



In January, 1927, the office of the bureau, which for thirteen years 

 had occupied a room in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology on the Uni- 

 versity of California campus, was moved to the headquarters of the Divi- 

 sion of Fish and Game in the Postal-Telegraph Building, San Francisco. 

 A large room for a library, an inner office and a small storeroom were 

 assigned. These quarters have proved too small for effective work. 



Outstanding in the accomplishments of the past two years have been : 



1. Notable increase in the lecture service. 



2. Building of the first reference library owned by the division since 

 the San Francisco fire in 1906. 



3. Beginning of a useful study collection of bird and mammal speci- 

 mens. 



4. Increase in the library of films and wider distribution thereof.. 



5. An organized nature educational program for public schools as a 

 demonstration of the usefulness of such a program. 



6. Increased service to boy scout, camp fire and like organizations. 



7. Augmented program of conservation lectures in schools. 



