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are given. Nature Tales Retold in Rhyme, Georgia M. Bowen. Personal 
Observations Compiled for the Blue Bird. 1 column Quotation of several 
verses fill out page. Verses from Bryant’s, ‘‘ Forest Hymn” and Whitman’s, 
“Song of Myself.”’ 
6. Making the World Safer for the Trees. Arbor Day Proclamation 
given. Poem—Two Planting Songs—S. F. Smith; What the Trees Teach— 
Helen O. Hoyt. 
7. As Poets View the Trees. Four poems given; The Careless Smoker— 
Harris Reynolds; The Ranger’s Life—Aurthur Chapman; Prospectin’— 
J. R. Simmons; Verse—Edwin Markham. 
8. The ‘‘ Post-Box’’—containing a letter from a reader. Following 
this, and filling in the remaining space are verses from the ‘‘Rubaiyat”’; 
Theodosia Garrison’s, ‘‘ Trees’’; Whitman’s, ‘‘I Saw in Louisiana a Live 
Oak Growing,’’ and a verse from Lela Brechenser-Rostiser. 
I know of no happier contribution to our nature periodicals than 
that made by the ‘‘ Bluebird.’’ It deserves the interest and support 
of every naturalist who is interested in the literary-naturalistic 
motive, 
In following our sequence of development of interest in Nature 
study, we find that birds come first, then plants, then insects, and 
finally come the water inhabitants in the form of fish, reptiles, etc. 
And so it happened that in 1915, in Philadelphia, W. A. Poyser 
edited the first number of “‘ Aquatic Life.’’ It is an ‘International 
monthly devoted to the study, care and breeding of fishes and other 
animals and plants in the home aquarium and terrarium.’ The 
magazine is distinctly popular in character, but has enlisted the in- 
terest of one of the best authorities on turtles, which the United 
States can boast of. Dr. R. W. Shuffeldt, has been publishing a 
series of articles upon the Chelonians of North America. His hand- 
ling of this subject is quite as classic in its way, as Thoreau’s hand- 
ling of fungi, was, in his. The March, 1920 number of this magazine 
included five long articles, of which this part of Dr. Shuffeldt’s 
contribution is one, three short articles, several columns of society 
notes, and is wonderfully illustrated. It has ten plates within its 
twelve pages, only one of which is a sketch. The rest are all photo- 
graphs, several of them half a page or more in size. Again then we 
have a concise example of the value of good plates. 
In 1916 the Illinois Audubon Society began the publication of the 
“Audubon Bulletin,’’ at Chicago. This began a series of articles 
upon Illinois conservationists who had become of national repute. 
Roosevelt, and Robert Ridgeway were included among the numbers 
