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the protection of caves and flora in the County of Sussex 

 in Western Australia, amounting to about 12,000 acres. 

 In the Swan District of Western AustraUa 5,600 acres have 

 been reserved, also several lakes, islands, and river estuaries, 

 and there is a kangaroo reserve. In the Island of Ceylon 

 there is a game reserve of 362 square miles. Here, again, 

 big game is the primary object of the reserve, but the native 

 forest is incidentally conserved. 



Turning now to the United States of America, we find that 

 a real effort has been made to preserve the native fauna and 

 flora. The various reserves are under the jurisdiction of five 

 government departments, the Smithsonian Institution and 

 the District of Columbia. The majority of the reserves, how- 

 ever, are administered by the Board of Agriculture. There 

 are fifty-six national bird reserves in the United States, and 

 ten more reserves bring the total up to sixty-six, the last- 

 named being specially for aquatic species. The total area 

 reserved in the United States is five million acres, of which 

 the well-known Yellowstone Park consists of about two million 

 acres, Yosemite Valley in California is 720,000 acres, and 

 Glacier Montana 915,000 acres. The United States are making 

 a special point of trying to preserve adequate breeding-grounds 

 for aquatic birds, these reserves also incidentally preserving 

 marsh plants and insects. 



South America, too, has not been behind in the establish- 

 ment of nature reserves. There are two of considerable 

 interest in the Argentine Republic, which, strange to say, 

 have not received the attention they deserve. The first of 

 these was established in the year 1902 by Mr. Charles Thays, 

 a wealthy man who wished to present the Eepublic of Argen- 

 tina with a memento suitable to his memory. Why he thought 

 that the magnificent falls of Iguazu and the surrounding 

 country, some 50,000 acres, were really suitable to remind 

 the inhabitants of Argentina of his personaUty, I cannot say, 

 but no doubt he had good reasons. However, the country is 

 enriched by the possession of this magnificent reserve of 

 50,000 acres. The Falls of Iguazu are close to the boundary 

 between Argentina and Brazil. The second national reserve 

 in the Argentina, which is situated on the boundary between 



