WILD LIFE PROTECTION LITERATURE 



BECAUSE there is a great dearth of wild life protection 

 literature in forms fit for preservation in libraries of 

 reference, we have been at some pains to produce a biennial 

 volume competent to stand on its own bottom on a library 

 shelf. We have been sending our biennial "Statement" as 

 a gift to about 75 representative American libraries, with 

 the suggestion that now it is well worth while for every 

 library in America to start a collection of wild life conser- 

 vation books and pamphlets. A list of those libraries is at- 

 tached. 



Up to this date about 95 per cent of the literature of wild 

 life protection has been published (I can not say "is to be 

 found") in weekly and monthly magazines, and in pamph- 

 lets. The availability of this literature leaves much to be 

 desired. The most of it is, to the average man, totally in- 

 accessible after a lapse of one year from date of publication. 

 It is now the rule that none but editors keep bound volumes 

 of magazines, and only those of their own making. 



No one but a genuine bibliophile is capable of conserving 

 pamphlets in such shape that they are systematically filed, 

 indexed for use, and readily available. Each year scores of 

 really useful pamphlets are snowed under forever by thous- 

 ands that have no permanent value. 



The producers of wild life conservation literature need 

 to take thought for the morrow. The unbound pamphlet has 

 its uses, but those who produce largely should so plan their 

 product that bound volumes, properly indexed, can periodi- 

 cally be made up. Our own bulletins are paged consecu- 

 tively, and every two years are bound up in our volume, and 

 placed for keeps on the library shelf. 



