76 THE AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST. 
author of ‘‘Freckles,’”’ and several articles by local members of the 
society, upon local phases of interest in the fauna and flora of that 
club’s county. The contributions are small, and the whole report 
only covers nineteen pages, but there is the nucleus for the type 
of publication which America needs to-day. The contribution from 
Clarence Hawkes is a poem, ‘The Awak’ning.’’ The second annual 
of this same society contains an autobiographical sketch by this 
author, with a great deal of local material, and at the top of each 
article is some little culled quotation from some-one who is well 
known, or should be because of his interest in the out-of-doors. 
Quotations from Mrs. Porter, Thoreau, Burroughs, and from well 
known state authorities in the scientific fields are utilized in this 
way in both the second and third annuals. This is only a beginning, 
but I feel that the Califor Naturalist Club is doing the thing which 
more periodicals should do. That is, I believe that our naturalistic 
periodicals should not only review the works of our naturalists, but 
publish the original contributions rather than letting other periodi- 
cals of varied interests and contents take what is rightfully in the 
field of the naturalistic periodical. This sort of thing would create 
for America a literature in the periodicals which would be of im- 
mense value and influence to would-be naturalists of coming time. 
In the same year that the Califor Naturalist Club began its 
publication, the Cleveland Bird Lovers Association began the 
publication of the ‘“Bluebird.’”’ It is a monthly periodical, and 
I think the most perfect combination of literature and nature- 
study which has yet been produced in our periodical world. The 
following contents of the March number, 1920, should be sufficient 
to convince the doubter that such an ideal periodical does and can 
exist. | 
1. Getting Acquainted—A- close-up of our Common Birds; ‘‘ The Chip- 
ping Sparrow—‘‘L. W. Brownell—Article of 3 pages. Followed by several 
brief comments upon birds, and a bird verse from Emerson and another 
from Robert Service. 
2. The Way of the Protectionist—A serial on Bird Protection by Georgia 
M. Bowen; 3 pages. 
3. Editorial comments. Also, several other verses from Service’s ‘‘Spell 
of the Yukon,’’ and Joyce Kilmer’s ‘‘ Trees.”’ 
4. Article—‘ Every Cemetery a Sanctuary’’—Contributed by T. Gilbert 
Pearson—Sec. of Nat’l. Asso’n. of Aud. Soc. One page. 
5. Bird Study in Home, School and Club. Daily record from January 
and Febuary birds given, and the Question Box where answers to questions 
