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from taking or destroying their nests and eggs. 
The first and largest of the societies of this kind, 
called "Uncle Toby's Dicky Bird Society," was 
founded practically by Mr. Adams, the editor of 
the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, in 1876, and 
counted, in February last, over two hundred and 
forty thousand members. 
One effect of this astonishing success has been 
that numberless societies, in imitation of that of 
" Uncle Toby," have sprung into existence in Eng- 
land and Scotland; and these, too, have grown 
rapidly. It would not be going too far at the 
present time to set down the united members of all 
these juvenile societies at from one to two millions. 
And when we consider that this is the outcome 
of a first small tentative effort made only seven- 
teen years ago, when the highest ambition of 
the founders of the first of these associations was 
to secure as many as five thousand members, and 
that the present numbers will probably be more 
than trebled in another decade, some conception 
may be formed of the effect which may or will 
be wrought on the public mind by so great an 
army. It is true that they are mostly children; 
but in this thing, if not in everything, the child is 
father to the man. We who are evolutionists are 
accustomed to look for survivals in the mind of 
the_ young — not necessarily of the very young — 
