U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BIOLOGICAL SURVEY 
C. HART M ERRIAM, CHIEF. 
T. S. PALMER, Assistant Chief. WASHINGTON, D. C. 
January 27, 1900. 
Dear Brewster: 
Some of your school superintendents seem to have descended 
direct from the dark ages and are badly in need of a little mis¬ 
sionary work. I am in receipt of a letter from West Groton, Mass., 
informing me that the Superintendent of Schools has advised the 
school children to undertake the business of collecting birds' eggs. 
I am told also that heretofore the children of the neighborhood have 
not collected birds' egg s and that some of them entertain a just 
horror of launching on the enterprise. 
Hoping you are in a position to press the button, with best 
wishes 
Very truly yours, 
To Mr. William Brewster 
President Massachusetts Audubon Society 
Cambridge. Massachusetts. 
