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my sending it to you ou condition that you return it to lier intact. I enclose 

 her name and address and ask you to be so good as to send it back to her. 



S. F. HOPWOOD, i.F.s. 



Peou, 



13^/^ July ]915. 



[The Water-Elephant is a wonderful curio. It is made out of the body of a 

 squirrel, the feet and hands being- cut off at the joints which gives it the ap- 

 pearnnce of having' rounded feet like an elej^hant. The whole body is shortened 

 by pressing in the hindquarters to give the curved back of an elephant and to the 

 tip of the nose a trunk made of some skin is added, while on the side of the head 

 two ears of the same material neatly fixed. The teeth of course are all taken out 

 or covered up and tusks of bone or ivory are inserted on either side of the 

 trunk.— Editoes. 1 



No. XXXIII.- 



-SUGGESTED EMENDATIONS IN ACT VllI 

 OF 10 iL'. 



The Wild Birds and Animals Protection Act (VUI of 1912) marks a 

 distinct step in advance towards the recognition by Government of the 

 interests of Wild Life in this country. It has now been in force for exactly 

 three years. The criticism which follow are intended to show that a 

 comparatively simple emendation would render practical working of the 

 Act considerably more simple. 



The Achilles heel of the Act lies in the Schedule annexed at the end of it. 

 This •A'ill be read by two classes of persons — those -acqiiainted with English 



