64 REPORT OF THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 
Boy Scout Co-operation. 
The bureau has continued to enlist the co-operation of boy scouts. 
Lectures and field trips have been given different troops and a special 
department in the quarterly has been devoted to reports made by 
scouts. A plan has now been developed to further stimulate interest 
by giving talks and conducting short field trips in some of the summer 
camps (see Fig. 9). Work of this sort during the summer of 1918 

Fig. 9. Oakland boy scouts in camp in Yosemite Valley, June, 1918. These boys were given 
instruction in wild life conservation and were taught to recognize birds and mammals in the 
open. Photograph by Pillsbury. 
eave splendid results. The out of doors is the best place to teach wild 
life conservation and the proper training of the boy assures the proper 
attitude toward wild life in the future. 
Publications. 
No addition has been made to our series of teacher’s bulletins but 
many useful articles which appeared in CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME 
have been reprinted in sufficient numbers to make them available to 
teachers and others interested. Notable among such articles are a 
series by Professor E. C. Starks of Stanford University on some of the 
food fishes of our state. These articles are of a popular nature and give 
splendid illustrations suitable for use in identification. There has also 
been made available an outline history of the introduction of food and 
came fishes in the waters of California. This paper, written by W. H. 
Shebley, in Charge of Fishculture, should be of great historical value. 
