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only one end to the persecution to which they are sub- 

 jected during the season when they are least able to 

 protect themselves. 



It is too much to hope that China will make effective 

 game laws before the most interesting and important 

 forms of her wild life have disappeared, but we can do 

 our best to preserve in museums for future generations 

 records of the splendid animals of the present. Not 

 only are they a part of Chinese history, but they belong 

 to all the world, for they furnish some of the evidence 

 from which it is possible to write the fascinating story 

 of those dim, dark ages when man first came upon the 

 earth. 



