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show the need for trading in smuggled 

 goods; the moral justification of it; or the 

 benefit to the laboring classes of this 

 country which flows from it. 



"16. Because, if a Plumage Bill were 

 passed in this country, it would make it 

 easy for those who are doing a voluntary 

 work of inestimable value to the Empire 

 to procure the passage of similar Bills in 

 other European Parliaments. As it is, 

 the vicious example set by Great Britain 

 paralyzes every effort in that direction." 



Surely no one can read the above 

 arguments for the passage of this measure 

 without being impressed with the worth- 

 iness of the Bill and the necessity for its 

 enactment. There are among the readers 

 of Bird-Lore many people who have 

 influence in England, and we earnestly 

 urge, if this article comes to their atten- 

 tion, that they will at once seek to bring 

 pressure to bear on the Members of 

 Parliament and urge its final passage. 



Besides his work for the protection of 

 the birds of England and the English 

 Colonies, Mr. Buckland's labors have 

 extended to many other countries. 

 Largely as a result of his personal visits 

 to Germany and his constant communi- 

 cations with bird students there, that 

 countr}'- today has one of the most wide- 

 awake national bird-protective organiza- 

 tions to be found in the Eastern Hemis- 

 phere. His work is well known in France 

 and at the present time he is assisting in 

 carrying forward a very important bird- 

 protective movement in Holland. He is 

 equally interested in the protection of 

 American bird life, and the information 

 that he has gathered and made public 

 relative to the destruction of birds in 

 South America has been of great assist- 

 ance to bird protectionists in that country 

 and elsewhere. 



Mr. William Dutcher, President of this 

 Association, has long regarded Mr. 

 Buckland as one of the very strongest 

 men connected with the wild life protec- 

 tion of the world. For many years they 

 were in constant and close correspondence, 

 and since the beginning of Mr. Butcher's 

 unfortunate illness, the writer has had 



the pleasure of continuing this corres- 

 pondence, and has thus been kept in close 

 touch with the wonderful results which 

 Mr. Buckland's efforts have secured 

 throughout the world. It was by the 

 combined efforts of Mr. Dutcher and Mr. 

 Buckland that the International Com- 

 mittee for Bird Protection was called intO' 

 existence upon the occasion of the meeting 

 of the International Ornithological Con- 

 gress, held in Berlin in the summer of 19 10. 



When we recall the marvelous amount 

 of work done by this remarkable man, the 

 results seem tremendously impressive, 

 especially in view of the fact that he is 

 not an ofhcial, nor connected with any 

 organization for bird protection — that he 

 does not even have a secretary and that 

 all his correspondence is written with his 

 own hand. 



Mr. Buckland come of Devonshire 

 stock and on the seventh of this October 

 will be fifty-eight years of age. — T. 

 Gilbert Pearson. 



Game Commissioners' Meeting 



The National Association of Game 

 Commissioners met in Denver, Colo., 

 Aug. 31-Sept. I, 191 2. This Association 

 was organized in the Yellowstone Park 

 in the summer of 1902 and has had bi-an- 

 nual meetings ever since. 



This was in many respects the most 

 interesting gathering of game officials 

 which has yet taken place. One very 

 striking feature was the amount of stress 

 laid on the importance of propagating 

 the wild birds and animals, both by 

 natural and artificial means. In fact,, 

 discussion of various phases of this sub- 

 ject occupied far more time in the session 

 than the subject of enforcing the bird 

 and game laws, which at the meetings 

 heretofore have been the dominating topic. 



A mong other matters which prominently 

 came before the Association was the 

 question of the desirability of having the 

 game laws in the various states uniform 

 with each other. Without a dissenting 

 vote, however, the Association voted this 

 plan as impracticable. 



