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Our Lecture Series 
THE ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY, in cooperation with the National Audubon 
Society, has arranged for a series of five lectures to be given during the 
coming season in the auditorium of The Chicago Academy of Sciences. All 
will be illustrated with motion pictures in natural color, and will be pre- 
sented without charge to the members of the Society and their friends. All 
who are interested in the study of and conservation of our wild birds and 
wildlife in general are earnestly invited to be present. 
The first will have been given on November 12, before this is off the 
press. It presented Mr. C. A. (Bert) Harwell, California native son and 
former Yosemite Park naturalist. His subject, “Wings Over the Desert,” 
explored the scenic grandeur of the Great American Desert and the stately 
Grand Canyon. The birds of the region were seen through the pictures, 
and heard through Mr. Harwell’s whistled imitations. Those who heard 
him last year certainly will not have missed him this time. j 
Second on our list is Mr. John H. Storer, of Waltham, Mass., who will 
appear before us for the first time on Tuesday evening, January 18, 1944, 
with his film of American wildlife, ‘Wings, Fins and Antlers.” These 
fascinating scenes are the record of 20,000 miles covered in eight months 
of study and search from Florida to New Brunswick for the pictures that 
bring to the screen the intimate lives of some of America’s most beautiful 
birds and animals. They range from the egret, the swallow-tail kite, and 
the roseate spoonbill of Florida to the display of strength and skill of the 
migrating salmon in the rivers of Canada. 
In arranging this program the Society feels that it is offering its mem- 
bers both information and entertainment. We hope that you will invite 
your friends, and that they may be encouraged to support the Society and 
its work by becoming members. Additional notices will be sent shortly 
before each lecture. 
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Helping Mother Robin 
THE FOLLOWING EXTRACT from a letter written by an invalid who lives in 
Ontario, Canada, shows once more how wild creatures react to a close 
contact with man before they learn to fear him. 
“Before I get too far away from the summer I must tell you about our 
robins. They built a nest above the light on the veranda and were so 
persistent about having that site. Mr. Quick, our landlord, who lives in the 
other half of the house, took it down twice but said he didn’t have the heart 
to do it the third time. 
“Then there were four eggs in the nest and Don Quick and Ruth used 
to get the ladder every day and look at them. They even brought one of 
the eggs out so I could see it, and apparently the mother didn’t mind. One 
Thursday two wee robins came out, on Friday another one, and on Saturday 
