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inside a huge fire will be glowing in the fireplace. After a tour of the old 
house, you will heed the call, “it’s lunch time!”” Then you’ll take your box 
lunch and hope you will be lucky enough to find a spot near the fire. 
Breeze Hill is not a show place; it does not boast of formal rose beds or 
neatly trimmed shrubs. It is, however, a refuge for wildlife, a place of peace 
and beauty in the eyes of its owners who love it so much. It’s a garden of 
the open country. When you come to Breeze Hill it is hoped your time will 
permit you to linger. There is much to see and enjoy. A walk to the higher 
hill to the old burial ground. Trees and shrubs will be bursting with spring, 
and the birds should be back in great numbers. 
As you leave, we hope you will pause at our garden gate and read: “My 
garden is to me like sweet music; I leave my cares at its gates.” Below 
Breeze Hill, at the foot of the lane, the last sign reads: ‘‘Come often to thy 
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friend’s house. Mrs. C. F. Russell, Breeze Hill Farm, Moweaqua, Illinois 
Hanson Receives Arctic Institute Grant 
By Dr. THOMAS G. SCOTT 
MEMBERS OF THE ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY will be pleased to learn that 
Harold C. Hanson, associate wildlife specialist in the Section of Wildlife 
Research of the Illinois Natural History Survey, has received a grant of 
$5,200 from the Arctic Institute of North America for further field studies 
of Canada geese in the Hudson Bay and James Bay region of Canada. 
Hanson has become a recognized authority on Canada geese through his 
sustained studies on the geese wintering on Horseshoe Lake Game Refuge 
in southern Illinois. 
Hanson’s first arctic experience dates back to 1936, when he went to 
northeast Greenland with Captain Robert Bartlett, navigator for Com- 
mander Robert E. Peary. In 1946, Hanson received the first grant for re- 
search made by the then newly formed Arctic Institute of North America. 
The grant was for research to supplement investigations on Canada geese. 
Again, in 1949, the Institute sent Hanson to the Perry River region of 
the arctic seacoast of Canada with Paul Queneau, a geologist from Fairfield, 
Connecticut, and Peter Scott, artist and director of the Severn Wildfowl 
Trust of England, and son of Captain Robert F. Scott, Antarctic explorer. 
The results of this expedition have been published (Spec. Pub. No. 3, Arctic 
Institute, 1956). 
Hanson plans to leave in late May or early June of this year to conduct 
an aerial reconnaissance of the Hudson- James Bay area, the breeding 
grounds of four flyway populations of Canada geese. Particular attention 
will be given the Mississippi Flyway population that nests west of James 
Bay. The aerial observations will be followed by intensive studies on the 
ground. Nesting habits, productivity, parasitology, and certain aspects of 
the physiology of Canada geese are the chief study objectives. Arrangements 
have been made for collaboration with the Ontario Department of Lands 
and Forests. Section of Wildlife Research, State Natural History Survey, Urbana 
