EDUCATING THE GROWING GENERATION 97 
work. Let teachers and schools do all they can to 
spread good bird literature and to fight such tradi- 
tional ignorance that does, for instance, still prevail 
against hawks and owls. This work must, however, 
also receive due attention in high schools and in 
normal schools from which our teachers go out. In 
these schools, as well as in common schools, bird study 
clubs can do much good, if they strictly refrain from 
collecting birds and eggs and if the teachers see to it 
that nests are not too frequently visited. Every bird 
actually placed in a collection by schoolboys probably 
means the wounding or killing of half a dozen. You 
may be sure that, if you start schoolboys collecting 
eggs and birds, you will soon have studied the birds 
out of the country. Every teacher that augments 
the egg and bird collecting mania helps to decrease our 
birds.!_ Use good charts and colored pictures, observe 
the birds outdoors, and let alone those that you can- 
not reach by these means. Moreover, in many states, 
schoolboy collectors would violate the law. This 
collecting must be done only by competent licensed 
collectors. Most private collections serve only the 
whim of the collector. With proper directions chil- 
dren may profitably collect insects, plants, and minerals, 
but they may learn much and not make any collections. 
There is certainly knowledge that would bestoo dearly 
1Teachers and others who are interested in natural sciences but 
do not have access to many books, to libraries, and museums, can get 
much help and inspiration from the Agassiz Association. For detailed 
information, write to Mr. H. H. Ballard, Pittsfield, Mass. 
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