Excerpt from Nature Study and Life The illustrations have been selected to express the relation of man, especially the relation of the child, to nature; and since spontaneous activity is fundamental to my plan of nature study, the majority of them are intended to suggest ways and means of doing something. To those who have contributed pictures, notably Charles Irving Rice, J. Chauncey Lyford, Myron W. Stickney, Charles L. Goodrich, The National Cash Register Com pany, Henry Lincoln Clapp, M. V. Slingerland, Miss Katherine E. Dolbear, and Miss Jessie G. Whiting, I wish to express my sincere thanks. Acknowledgment usually accompanies the illustration, but the picture of a deer in the velvet (p. 15) should be accredited to Mr. Rice. The photograph of the mosquitoes (p. 89) and the portrait of a young wood thrush (p. 345) are by Mr. Stickney. Figs. 121, 123, 125, 131, and 135, together with most of the data from which the bird-food chart (p. 323) was constructed, are contributed by Miss Helen A. Ball. The other line drawings, with exception of 20 d, 22, 25, 35 b, 71, 160, 161, 178, 193, 194, 195, were made under my direction by Mrs. Helen Davis Burgess. The photo graphs not otherwise accredited are by the author. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.