6 THE A-UDUBON “BULL EeeiN 
cussing the weather as they do every morning before making the day’s 
plans, and saved the committee a lot of bother. 
One morning we scrambled around on the rocks, hammer and chisel in 
hand, speeding up the natural processes of erosion by several hundred 
thousand years as we industriously cracked open the granite and schist 
boulders of the island to find out what minerals comprise it. Garnets 
ranging in size from small to minute are embedded in the schist, and many 
of the campers became devoted garnet hunters from then on. We learned 
how to make smoke, crayon, and spatter prints of leaves. We outvied one 
another in the artistic arrangement of our blueprint impressions of flowers, 
ferns, lichens, mosses, and grasses. We learned how to construct an elec- 
Camp faculty, left to right, standing: Dr. Marcus C. Old, marine life; 
Carl W. Buchheister, director; Allan Cruickshank, bird life; Arthur Smith, 
imsect life. Rear: Joseph Cadbury, bird life; Farida Wiley, plant life; 
Dorothy Treat, nature activity. 
trical bird-namer; where to get free bird and flower pictures, charts, and 
movies; how to play nature games to stimulate a small child’s interest; 
how to plan a nature “treasure-hunt’”; how to press flowers and mount 
twigs. The quantity of practical, “down to earth” material that is given 
in these classes is amazing. To dramatize the abundance of organic life 
in a half square foot of top soil we dug up the soil, lugged it in a box to 
the workshop, and divided it between two groups who separated and classi- 
fied its contents. It got to be hilarious as we chased lively bugs and insects 
and popped them into a bottle. Most of us knew nothing whatever about 
insects, So we gave our creatures such unscientific names as “white crawler,” 
