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Notes and News 
The Nature Study School which will be conducted for the third 
year by the Garden Clubs of Illinois will be held at the Morton 
Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois, June 7, 8 and 9. 
A Nature Study School in the Dunes of Indiana is being planned 
by the “Friends of our Native Landscape.” It is for the week of the 
Spring vacation in the Chicago Schools and will be for five days. 
Further information may be obtained from Miss Eskil, 6016 Ingleside 
Avenue, Chicago. 
The Geneva Lake Summer School of Natural Science will open at 
Williams Bay, Wisconsin, on June 25 and the session will continue 
until August 8. The school aims to give first-hand contact with the 
physiographic features, rock strata, plants and animals of southern 
Wisconsin; to provide facilities for the study of the habits, habitats 
and distribution of plant and animal life; and to help students to 
become acquainted with the stars and to study, by personal observa- 
tion, simple problems connected with them. For the six weeks the 
tuition is $25, and the cost of room and board ranges from $14 to $20 
per week. For further information address the Director, O. D. Frank, 
Graduate Education Building, 58835 Kimbark Avenue, Chicago. 
The Third Annual Illinois Conservation Week is being planned 
by Governor Horner, beginning April 17 and running through 
April 23. 
The National Wild Life Week, March 20 to 26, sponsored by the 
General Wild Life Federation at the recent Baltimore meeting and 
devoted to raising funds for restoration work in all branches of wild 
life conservation, has been set aside by proclamation of the President 
of the United States who has made an earnest appeal to all citizens 
“to recognize the importance of the problem of conservation of these 
assets in wild life, and then to work with one accord for their proper 
protection and preservation.” 
Stamps bearing pictures of American wild animals, and birds, 
designed by Jay N. (“Ding”) Darling, have gone on sale throughout 
the nation. 
