Word: burnet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...response was so immediate in the case of Mrs. Schroeder's contribution or offer to contribute to Noel Burnet's koala farm that it is possible your Letters column might awaken a similar response on behalf of America's greatest and, at one time, most beloved upland game bird. In fact, Rex. king of grouse, truly depicts what would be so lacking in our woodlands, if allowed to go the way of the passenger pigeon and heath...
...noted (TIME, Nov. 16, Nov. 30) "that though no espouser of Causes, TIME will gladly transmit to Naturalist Burnet Mrs. Schroeder's $50." This appreciation of Australia's native bear, the koala, is creditable alike to Mrs. Schroeder's heart and TIME'S courtesy. American dollars are acceptable in Australia, if received in the form of payment for Australian goods, but may I suggest that the $50 in question be applied to the preservation of American animal and bird life? Australians are not neglecting their koalas...
...plaintive screed by Noel Burnet under Animals in TIME, Nov. 16, relative to the koala "Teddy bears" of Australia is not without its points. But rather than ask for a Santa Claus, why doesn't he offer for sale an enlarged colored picture of the bear & cub, such as you have reproduced, with the proceeds going to the present and future care and protection of the bears? If the picture were well done I would gladly pay a dollar for one to give to my little girl...
...should think the Australian Government would be ashamed of itself to permit these animals to die out and to allow their only benefactor, Mr. Burnet, virtually to starve due to his lone uphill fight to save them. Can't California do what Australia is apparently unwilling to do? Hasn't California many eucalyptus trees originally brought from Australia, and among the California eucalypti can't some of the twelve varieties the Koala feeds upon be found? California is a greathearted, energetic State. Will Californians interest themselves in the Koala...
Though no espouser of Causes, TIME will gladly transmit to Naturalist Burnet Mrs. Schroeder...