Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 579 



Mr. Mervyn G. Palmer, and a portion of tlie collection 

 made by the late Mr. Hoffmans on the Rio Madeira. 

 Besides these, otlier contributions were received from 

 Cayenne, Venezuela, Argentina, and Peru, and 636 skins 

 from Lower Amazonia, amongst which were fourteen ex- 

 amples of the brilliant Pipra opalizans and other rarities. 



Army Manoeuvres in the New Forest. — An influentially 

 signed memorial has been prepared with reference to the 

 military manoeuvres in the New Forest. The signatories 

 point out that May and June are exactly those months of 

 the whole year in which non-disturbance is of vital im- 

 portance to the birds, insects, and plants which give to the 

 New Forest its unique interest not only for men of science, 

 but for the increasing numbers of their fellow-countrymea 

 who take an interest in Natural History. The damage d(3ne 

 by bodies of troops during this period must inevitably result 

 in a desti'uction of the wild life of this area that can never 

 again be repaired. While, tiierefore, they recognise on 

 patriotic grounds that manoeuvres must be held, they express 

 the wish that wild tracts of the country other than the New 

 Forest might be utilised for the purpose ; but, if this cannot 

 be, they desire to place on record their earnest hope that 

 future manoeuvres may at any rate be deferred until after 

 July 15, when less harm would be done. 



The letter is signed by Lord Avebury, Sir Archibald 

 Geikie (President of the Royal Society), Sir E. Ray Lan- 

 kester, Dr. Sidney Harmer, Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace, 

 Sir Edmund Loder, Dr. Chalmers Mitchell, Sir Joseph 

 Hooker, Dr. D. H. Scott (President of the Linnean Society), 

 Professor Sydney Vines, Professor Poulton, Dr. P. L. Sclater, 

 Mr. Henry Elwes, Mr. E. G. Meade-Waldo, Mr. J. G. Mil- 

 lais, Mr. Eric Parker, Mr, J. E. Harting, and a large number 

 of Members of the Zoological and Linnean Societies and of 

 the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. — 'The Field,^ 

 June 10th, 1911, p. 1149. 



