FIAT JUSTITIA! 
By SIR HEREWALD WAKE, Bart. 
HAVE been asked by the Boyal Society for the 
-I- Protection of Birds to write something which will 
enlist the sympathy and be likely to obtain the co¬ 
operation of public schoolboys in giving our birds 
fair play. I am an old Eton fellow myself, and 
though from one cause or another I have had to 
stand aside while many of my contemporaries have 
distinguished themselves in public life, I do not 
regret the years I have spent in the country and in 
the study of Natural History, and shall certainly not 
think they were wasted if anything I can say on 
the subject of justice to the birds should win your 
attention. 
I am going to ask you to pick up from your own 
personal observation as much knowledge as lies in 
your path about the birds which cross it. Note what 
they do and think out why they do it, for yourselves, 
and you will learn a great deal more than any scientific 
ornithologist can ever tell you. You will find yourself 
led off down the most delightful bypaths of ento¬ 
mology and botany; and wherever you may be, and 
whatever you may be doing, I will promise you one 
thing—you will never be dull or feel bored again as 
long as you live. I appeal to you to do these things 
on three grounds, which should make you agree like 
a bird,” as the phrase runs : on the grounds of Justice,. 
Mercv, and Common Sense. 
.BUCK MEMORIAL LIBRARY 
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 
