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this laudable object is my friend Dr. Paul Sarasin. The 

 Swiss have established a national park at Val Cluosa in the 

 Engadine, towards the Tyrol border, of 50,000 acres. The 

 beauties of this spot alone make it worth a visit. Here the 

 magnificent Alpine flora of Switzerland flourishes unmolested, 

 while eagles and chamois are quite common. The red deer, 

 which was extinct in Switzerland at the time the park was 

 established, have come across out of Austria and are now 

 forming a flourishing and increasing colony within the sanctity 

 of the Swiss National Park. The Swiss have also a number 

 of smaller reserves. In many of the forests an effort has been 

 made to keep some portions in their natural state, and espe- 

 cially fine growths of clematis and other plants which modern 

 forestry destroys are preserved in certain areas. 



In Holland an effort has been made to preserve certain 

 marsh areas, an effort we all greatly appreciate. The Naarden 

 Lake, the Lake of Oisterwyk, and the Island of Texel are all 

 reserves primarily for birds, but there can be no doubt that 

 the first and last named must harbour many interesting 

 insects, and it is much hoped that collectors will visit them 

 and ascertain what fine species still exist there. Although I 

 am not aware in which part of Holland the discovery was 

 made, we all know that the Large Copper still exists in 

 that country, and it is much hoped that the locality where 

 it obtains will be preserved in perpetuity. 



France has two large reserves ; one is the well-known forest 

 of Fontainebleau, an area somewhat analogous to our New 

 Forest, and I must confess that I deplore that the various Acts 

 that have been passed from time to time regulating the 

 government of our New Forest were not made sufficiently com- 

 prehensive to secure the permanent preservation in its original 

 state of all that area, as has been effected by France in the 

 case of the forest of Fontainebleau. There is also a further 

 large reserve of 25,000 acres in the Department of Isere, called 

 the Cirque de la Berarde. The preservation of nature and 

 the establishment of national parks is in the hands of a 

 Government Department, but we must not forget the forest 

 of Chantilly, which, if not a nature reserve in the true sense, 

 is still managed by the Institute on lines more or less keeping 



