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The Dominion Government, by order in council dated December 

 28, 1916, appointed an interdepartmental advisory board on wild life 

 protection for the purpose of formulating plans regarding the protec- 

 tion and use of the wild life by which term is meant the furbearing 

 and big game mammals, the wild fowl and other animal life of the 

 northwestern territories, and of advising in the administration of the 

 Northwest Game Act and of the legislation under the recently ratified 

 international treaty for the protection of migratory birds in Canada 

 and the United States, and generally, for the purpose of advising it on 

 questions relating to the protection of and use of wild life in Canada. 

 The advisory board is constituted as follows: James White, Assistant 

 to the Chairman of the Commission of Conservation; D. C. Scott, 

 Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs; Dr. C. Gordon 

 Hewitt, Dominion Entomologist; Dr. R. M. Anderson, Geological Sur- 

 vey; J. B. Harkin, Commissioner of Dominion Parks. Mr. James 

 White is chairman and Dr. Hewitt is secretary of the Board; Mr. 

 White and Dr. Hewitt are also representatives of the government on 

 the permanent consultative commission for the international protection 

 of nature. 



British Government Grant for Scientific Research. 

 When the establishment of a separate department of scientific and 

 industrial research was announced in December last, Lord Crewe 

 stated that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was prepared to advise 

 the government to devote a sufficient sum to cover operations during 

 the next five years on a scale which would provide four, or perhaps 

 five, times as much for cooperative industrial research as had been 

 spent for the whole purposes of research hitherto. We learn from 

 Nature that the civil service estimates just issued include the sum of 

 1, 038,050 to the department of scientific and industrial research, 

 being a net increase of 998,050 upon last year's amount. 



A circular letter giving 39 generic names in Protozoa, Coelenterata, 

 Trematoda, Cestoda, Cirripedia, Tunicata and Pisces, chiefly 

 Linnaean, which have been proposed for inclusion in the Official List 

 of Zoological Names, has been mailed to the leading scientific institu- 

 tions, colleges, laboratories, etc., in various countries; in addition 20 

 copies have been sent to each commissioner for distribution in his own 

 country. A copy will be sent to any person sufficiently interested who 

 will apply to Dr. C. W. Stiles, Secretary to International Commission 

 on Zoological Nomenclature, U.S. National Museum, Washington, 

 D. C. 



