American In- 

 stitute of 

 Architects 



C. S. Minot 



M. L. Fernald 



U. S. Biologi- 

 cal Survey 



ing in schools or study of foreign examples im- 

 possible of reproduction here, would contribute 

 so liberally as this. In exhibiting to architects 

 and landscape architects, or men charged with 

 the development of public parks, the whole range 

 of native material within their reach, a work of 

 widest influence would be accomplished, and one 

 that would aid greatly in the creation of a national 

 landscape art. 



For the botanist and entomologist such reserves, 

 grouped in a linked series readily and quickly 

 traversed, would not only provide living collec- 

 tions of the rare plant and insect species of each 

 region, difficult to study otherwise, but would 

 also save from destruction many an interesting 

 life form else certain to become extinct as the 

 woods are cut away, the lands denuded and burnt 

 over. 



For the preservation of the bird and other wild 

 life of the Continent, migratory as the former 

 largely is, absolute sanctuaries, well grouped and 

 not too far apart, have already proved themselves 

 beyond dispute essential, in the presence of a 

 time where human forethought and prompt ac- 

 tion only can avert the swift destructiveness of 

 human agencies more ruinous biologically and 

 wider spread than the destructive agencies of any 

 previous age, glacial or other, the rocks or later 

 clays reveal. 



George B. Dorr. 



