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flowers. In Belgium, though at present httle has been 
done officially in the way of protection, the Royal Botanical 
Society has completed an admirable survey of desirable 
natural sites (" Pour la Protection de la Nature en 
Belgique." Jean Massart, 1912), and this work has aroused 
general public interest. 
In the United States, where it is obvious that the con- 
ditions are entirely different as far as the acquisition of 
primitive land is concerned, the system of " National 
Parks " has been inaugurated, but unfortunately too late 
to save a large part of the indigenous fauna. Canada, 
Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa have set the 
Mother Country a splendid example of what can be done in 
this direction. In England, where space is limited, and 
the population numerous, a beginning has been made by 
the acquisition for the nation of a part of Wicken Fen, in 
Cambridgeshire, the shingle and salt -marshes of Blakeney, 
in Norfolk (described in The Ti?nes of November 30), 
and the " Ruskin Reserve " near Oxford : all these retain 
their primitive character. Much more remains to be done, 
and it is hoped that the " Society for the Promotion of 
Nature Reserves " will meet with wide and sympathetic 
support. 
OBITUARY. 
HUGH LAMONT ORE. 
On April 14th Hugh Lamont Orr passed away at Belfast, and his death 
removes one of the most active workers of the Belfast Naturalists' Field 
Club. A keen conchologist and entomologist, he was never so happy 
as when out on some mountain or glen -side, and few had a better knowledge 
of the best localities for field work in the north-east of Ireland. In the 
technical skill required in mounting and fitting up cases of natural history 
specimens he had few equals in this country, and his services and advice 
were always at the disposal of young naturalists. The Public Museum 
in Belfast often benefited by his donations. His skill as an amateur 
worker in wood and metal was often of great service at the annual 
conversaziones of the Field Club. He was an occasional contributor to 
this Journal and a subscriber from the first number. For some years 
he had been engaged on a list of the Wild Bees and Wasps of the North- 
east of Ireland, 
