The Baynes Lectures

              THE BAYNES LECTURES

SUBJECTS OF PRINCIPAL LECTURES

The Miracles of Modern Medicine and Surger
Animal Heroes of the World War
Wild Birds and How to Attract Them
Birds in the Nesting Season
Our Wild Animal Neighbors
Wolves and Other Wild Friends of Mine
The Dog — Man's Noblest Friend
The American Buffalo
Wild Life in the Blue Mountain Forest
My Wild Animal Guests
The Truth About Vivisection




ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES


Field Secretary, Friends of Medical Progress.  Author of Wild Bird Guests, Polaris, Jimmie—The Story of a Black Bear Cub, etc., etc.



For full information concerning these lectures, and for terms, dates, etc., please address
MISS BERTHA HOUSTON, SECRETARY TO ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES, MERIDEN, NEW HAMPSHIRE




A New and Important Lecture

THE MIRACLES OF MODERN MEDICINE AND SURGERY
For years Mr. Baynes has been regarded as the lay authority on this subject, and his articles in The Woman's Home Companion, The Outlook, The World's Work, Hygeia, Caveat, The Yale Review, The Philadelphia Public Ledger and elsewhere, have met with the unqualified approval of our foremost medical men and our leading educators and divines.  All the human interest and humor for which Mr. Baynes' bird and animal talks are famous have been brought to this new lecture, but its chief claim to attention is that it treats of matters vitally important to the health of the people.  It deals

MR. BAYNES WITH BUSTER — A MEMBER OF THE MEDICAL STAFF AT CHICAGO UNIVERSITY
 with the development of the art of healing, the miracles brought about by scientific research, the nature of recent discoveries and the means by which they have been made.  It also treats of the enemies of research, reveals their methods and their motives, and shows how level-headed people everywhere can prevent epidemics and the consequent suffering and death by standing together against the activities of the ignorant and fanatical.  The lecture is given in simple language which even children can easily understand, and is thoroughly illustrated with fascinating lantern slides.



A Few Brief Comments by Eminent Americans on Mr. Baynes' Stand for Medical Progress.
HON. H. J. ALLEN, Governor of Kansas.

Mr. Baynes strikes a sane and wholesome note, and all who believe in sanity and scientific progress should be grateful to him for the trouble he has taken to go so thoroughly into this subject.

C. HART MERRIAM, formerly Chief of the U. S. Biological Survey.

A straightforward, honest, and in every way fair presentation of the subject.

DR. CHARLES W. ELIOT, President Emeritus of Harvard University.

Accurate, truthful and much needed.

DR. WILLIAM J. MAYO, America's foremost surgeon.

Has the complete approval of my brother and myself.

DR. THOMAS BARBOUR, Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, Cambridge, Mass.

Mr. Baynes has done science a real service.

FRANK M. CHAPMAN, Curator of Birds, American Museum of Natural History, Editor of Bird-Lore, etc.

I do not see how any fair minded person could fail to be impressed by Mr. Baynes' logical and unbiased statement of the facts.

G. W. MCCOY, Director, United States Public Health Service, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C.

An excellent exposition of the subject.




Lectures on Birds

WILD BIRDS AND HOW TO ATTRACT THEM
HUNDREDS of bird clubs, including the famous New York Bird and Tree Club, have been organized as a result of this lecture.  It was delivered in Colonel Roosevelt's house at Oyster Bay, and to quote Colonel Roosevelt on the subject: Mr. Baynes is responsible for my having now become President of the Bird Club of Long Island, and I am following out the methods he advocates of trying to make the wild birds welcome guests around my own place.

Dr. Frank M. Chapman, Curator of Birds at

MR. BAYNES' STUDY WINDOW
 The American Museum of Natural History, who became President of The Englewood Bird Club, organized at the close of this lecture, says: Mr. Baynes has practised with so much success what he preaches that his sermon on our duty to birds and the reward we may hope to win by performing it, should be accepted as a practical demonstration.



BIRDS IN THE NESTING SEASON
THIS lecture gives a general view of a big theme, with many delightful personal experiences with nesting birds.  When possible it should be used to supplement the preceding lecture.




Lectures on Wild Animals

OUR WILD ANIMAL NEIGHBORS
THIS is said to be the most successful popular lecture ever delivered on American natural history.  It has been given more than a thousand times before audiences of all classes and all ages.  Fourteen copies of it, each with a set of lantern slides, were used during the war to amuse the American soldiers at home and abroad.  The Cincinnati Inquirer calls it one of the most interesting lectures ever delivered in Cincinnati, and The Boston Evening Transcript says in a report of it: He could read the spreading of his gospel in the pleasure of his audience.



WOLVES AND OTHER WILD FRIENDS OF MINE
THIS talk is full of thrilling stories of personal adventures with wolves, wild boar, buffalo and other interesting beasts.  Romulus, the smiling coyote, Dauntless, the great timber wolf who created a sensation at a Boston dog show, and Tusker, the wild boar who held up travellers on Croyden Mountain, are features of this lecture.


A WILD NEIGHBOR





THE AMERICAN BUFFALO
THIS is the dramatic story of America's grandest native animal — its relation to the Indians and the pioneers — its rapid disappearance to the very verge of extinction, and its final preservation through the activities of The American Bison Society, founded by Mr. Baynes.  Theodore Roosevelt, while President of the United States, went to hear this talk.  His comment was: A first-class lecturein every respect.  I congratulate the buffalo on having so efficient a man to champion him.



WILD LIFE IN THE BLUE MOUNTAIN FOREST
A GREAT game preserve, containing twenty-five thousand acres of wild mountainous country, and stocked with buffalo, moose, elk, white-tailed deer and German and Russian wild boar, holds great possibilities for adventure.  Many of these possibilities have been realized by Mr. Baynes, and he tells his story with a fine blending of the humorous and dramatic.




Lectures on Domestic Animals

ANIMAL HEROES OF THE WORLD WAR
THIS is the greatest story which animals have ever had to tell of their own achievements, told sympathetically and dramatically by one of their best friends.  As Special Correspondent of Harpers Magazine, Mr. Baynes went to Europe, Egypt and Palestine to study the parts played by the horses, mules, donkeys, oxen, camels, dogs, pigeons and other animals which helped the allies to win the war.  On his return he wrote his report for the magazine and delivered a course of four lectures before the Lowell Institute in Boston.  This course is available for committees desiring full details of this fascinating story, but ordinarily the subject can be covered satisfactorily in a single dramatic lecture.  It appeals to every class of audience, but is especially adapted for humane societies, as it emphasizes, as perhaps no lecture does, the debt we owe to animals.


ITALIAN WAR DOGS IN THE ALPS




THE DOG
As THE author of Polaris and of the greater part of The Book of Dogs Mr. Baynes has a large following among dog lovers.  In this lecture he practically takes his hearers to a first-class dog show, points out and describes all the breeds and tells thrilling or amusing stories about each.  His own famous dogs — Haakon, Beowulf, Sandor, Heatherbloom, Polaris and others, all come in for a share of attention.




THE TRUTH ABOUT VIVISECTION
THIS fearless exposure of the anti-vivisection hoax has already played an important part in loosening the strangle hold which this dangerous cult has had on thousands of well-meaning but misinformed people.  Mr. Baynes, as president of a humane society spent years in investigating anti-vivisectionists and anti-vivisection literature, and in visiting research laboratories and medical schools from coast to coast.  This lecture gives the results of his investigations in a humorous but thoroughly convincing way, and no one who hears it will ever be humbugged by anti-vivisection propaganda.



For Dates, Terms and Other Information, Please Address
MISS BERTHA HOUSTON, Secretary to Ernest Harold Baynes, Meriden, New Hampshire