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of the camera Tithout hat'd work and enthus iu3m;when a nan hag passed 
the 3fcago of enthusiasm ha hat ban drop photography. 
I hay-3 bo thank you foe the Itlantio a copy of which I received 
long ago.T read Burroughs article with much interest and can well 
understand that he regrets haying published it,'and yet in the main 
it is temperate enough and quit? true. I can agree heartily with Bur¬ 
roughs in nos! of hie state neats.On feme other hand the school of which 
he complains has done nor a to popularise nature study than all the 
naturalists <rho ever wrote,and by populaization they have made pos¬ 
sible many things which assuredly are r.ost desirable. I do not doubt 
t h a t 
fc'13 
recently arouse 
d int 
erest in animal3 and 
birds and in their 
way 3 
h a 3 
done more to ma 
ke 3 f 
fedtive the efforts of t 
he Vudubon Sooieb 
than 
all 
their direct a op ea 13 
.facts and figures.Pr 
o t 3 
ctive lagisla- 
t ion 
has 
been made easy 
ia iiu arter3 where ’out this 
fo 
r interest would 
have 
been impos3able at 
1 e a 3 b 
for a long time. 
Despite 
Lbs intemperate 
p a r a g 
r-aphs the .article of 
Bur 
roughs will make 
L 0 ? 
good 
tend to temper 
the i 
dealiziag t e n den c ies 
of 
the nature writer 
and 
they 
oertainly will 
b e a r 
tempering. A.s to some 
of 
the stories the 
Paarcher telle fch3y jlmpLv taa crs jilty to the utmost.I cannot im- 
agine a liar with such effrontery and rather incline to the belief 
that .he .has a diseased imagination.tre is bright enough and no mean 
antagonist to encounter in print. 
Ons of the. island volcanoes b%3 v 
