As naturalist, author, lecturer and photographer, William L. Finley has a continent-wide following of admirers. His pictures have spread afar his doctrine that animals and birds are by nature friendly -- that their disposition toward man depends on man himself. His best known book is American Birds, and his pictures and stories appear in many magazines. He is on the editorial staff of Nature Magazine, and a member of the editorial board of Outdoor America. Lately he has taken some very fine moving pictures of animals which appear in the Finley Nature Series. Finley's interest in birds and animals extends far beyond hunting them with the camera, for he has served in many capacities as conservator of wild life. He was State Game Warden from 1911 to 1915, State Biologist from 1915 to 1919, and he has acted as director on boards of such activities as Migratory Bird Act, Izaac Walton League, Audubon Society and Wild Life Conservation.