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Wild Birds Protection Acts. 



The following committees have Ijceii appointed to advise 

 the Government in connection with tlie administration ot" 

 the Wild Birds Protection Acts : — 



B}' tlie Home Secretary for England — 



His Grace the Duke of Rutland, K.Or. {^Chairman).. 



Mr. II. G. Maurice, C.B., of the Ministry of Agricul- 

 ture. 



Dj". Percy R. Lowe, O.B.E., of the Natural History 

 Museum. 



Dr. Montague Sharpe, K.C., Chairman of the Ivoyal 

 Society for the Protection of Birds. 



Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker, O.B.E., F.Z.S., Secretary ot 

 the liritish Ornithologists' Union. 



By the Secretary for Scotland — 



Mr. Hugh S. Gladstone, E.R.S.E. {Chairman). 

 Mr. VVm. Eagle Clarke, LL.D. 

 Mr. Walter E. Collinge, D.Sc. 



Mr. H. M. Conacher (representing the Board of Agri- 

 culture for Scotland). 

 Mr. H. J. Crowe (representing the Fishery Board for 



Scotland). 

 Professor J. Arthui" Thomson, liL.D. 



Enssian Ornithologists. 



In the list of members of the Union will be found the 

 names of six Russian Oinithologists, and we have recently 

 made several attempts to find out what has become of them 

 since the revolution in Russia. From vaiious sources we 

 learn the following, tliougli the evidence is not altogether 

 satisfactory in any single case. Michael Menzbier is believed 

 to have been murdered in the streets of Moscow early in the 

 revolution. Sergius Buturlin is also reported to have died. 

 Valentine Bianchi is alive and still at the Museum of the 

 Academv of Sciences at Petro<rrad. Peter Suskiu was 



