Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Birds of New Jersey
Other suggestions regarding the study of birds and the observance of the day will be found in two interesting articles on Bird Day, one by Superintendent Babcock, in the Journal of Education for April 4, 1895; the other by A. E. Winship, in the Outlook for April 6, 1895, p. 560.
Last spring (1896) the movement was started in Iowa by Prof. C. H. Morrill, superintendent of schools at Fort Madison, who was apparently unaware of the experiment in Pennsylvania. He set apart May 29, 1896, as Bird Day in the schools under his jurisdiction, and describes the result as follows.
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