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Useful (protected birds), exhibited during Country Production Week. Many of these are 

 insectivorous and are regarded by the man on the land as his best friends. 



Photo. — E. A. Bradford. 



During Country Production Week, 

 held under the auspices of the Country 

 Promotion League, from Febiiiary 20th 

 to 25th, the Museum exhibited in the 

 windows of Farmers', Limited, a large 

 series of birds, comprising the species 

 whicia are useful to faiTners, and also 

 those which are destructive to stock, 

 crops, and fruits. The exhibit was a 

 prominent feature of the Week, and at- 

 tracted a considerable amount of atten- 

 tion. 



Mr. C. Hedley, Principal Keeper of 

 Collections, left Sydney by the R.M.S. 

 Makura on March IGtli for an extended 

 trip to North America. Mr. Hedley pro- 

 poses to do some exploring in the Rocky 



Mountains region, and, if conditions are 

 favoui'able, will visit Alaska. 



Our lecture session opened this month, 

 when Dr. J. S. Purdy, Metropolitan Of- 

 ficer of Health, discoursed on the "Ex- 

 termination of Vermin and the Preven- 

 tion of Plaga;e and other Insect-borne 

 diseases." On April 13th, Dr. W. A. 

 Sawyer, of the Rockefeller Foundation, 

 who has been in Australia for some time 

 conducting the HookwoiTu Campaign, 

 will lecture on "The Story of the Hook- 

 worm." We are very fortunate in be- 

 ing able to secure the service of such 

 eminent specialists as lecturei* on sub- 

 jects of such vital interest to the com- 

 nuinity. 



