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Sereen Tours in Review 
LOOKING BACK over the Audubon Lectures for the past season, we find 
that the scenes remembered most fall into two classes: pictures of birds, 
and pictures of exotic animal life of other types. Like most birders, we 
found the ornithological records the most absorbing, but the views of in- 
sect, reptile and marine life were rewarding also. 
All of nature is inter-related; the swarming of insects means the 
coming of the swallows; when the ruby-throat buzzes over the hill, we 
know that nectar is in the flowers; when ice crystals glitter at the river’s 
edge, we see vees of geese streaming across the autumn sky. Adding one 
more facet to our knowledge of the world brightens the luster of all the 
facets we already hold. 
And so the Audubon Screen Tours served to round out our under- 
standing of the natural beauty of this earth. Fran William Hall, the first 
lecturer, showed the sights of “The Four Corners,” that unique area 
where four Western states meet. An outstanding photographer, he 
displayed his technical skill with portraits of unusual insects and reptiles. 
National parks and monuments of four states passed in his camera review. 
In “Underwater Kingdom,” Mrs. Lucie Palmer showed her talent for 
sketching fish, then explained how she and her husband recorded the 
mysteries of oceanic life with their camera. The pictures were amusing, 
yet revealed phases of animal life one would never see in an ordinary 
Middlewestern lifetime. 
Bert Harwell, always a great favorite, brought out a record crowd. He 
first performed an incredible number of accurate birdsongs, then presented 
his colorful movie on “Canada East.” The photographs of nesting birds 
were exceptional, but the most striking scenes were those of the gannets 
dive-bombing headlong into the ocean from the top of their rocky nesting 
cliff. 
Dr. Olin Sewall Pettingill related his vain search for the summer home 
of the whooping crane before taking us on his “Athabaska Sojourn.” He 
showed life in the pine-bound northern wilderness at its best — scenes 
that only a few hardy travelers are privileged to view at first hand. 
“Wildlife at Your Doorstep” gave Howard L. Orians a chance to prove 
what many of us have already begun to believe: that with a little patience 
and ingenuity, one can study birds, animals and all nature in his own 
back yard. The pictures were doubly interesting because they were made 
here in our own Middle West. 
Personally, we enjoyed these Screen Tours, and wished there could be 
more of them. Didn’t you? 
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