20 THE SOCIETY EOE THE PRESERVATION OP 



MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS AT A DEPUTATION PROM 

 THE SOCIETY FOB THE PRESERVATION OF THE 

 WILD FAUNA OF THE EMPIRE TO THE RIGHT 

 HON. THE EARL OF ELGIN, HIS MAJESTY'S 

 SECRETAEY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES. 



Colonial Office, Whitehall, S.W. : Friday, June 15, 190(1. 



PRESENT: 



The Duchess of Bedford. 

 Lord Cuezon of Kedleston. 

 Mr. E. N. Buxton. 

 Mr. S. H. Whitbread. 



Mr. W. SCORESBY RoUTLEDGE, 



Mr. F. C. SBLOUS. 



Mr. FltUliUUICK (ilLLETT. 



Col. J. H. Patterson, D.S.O. 



Lord Monk Bretton. 



Sir William Lee Warner. 



Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, F.R.S. 



(Secretary of the Zoo Ogical 



Society). 

 Mr. Edward P. Tennant. 

 Mr. E. E. Austen. 

 Mr. Mervyn Williams. 

 Sir Henry Seton-Karr. 

 The Hon. Wilfrid Ashley. 

 Mr. Rhys Williams, Hon. Sec. 



Mr. E. N. Buxton : My Lord, I beg to introduce this Deputa- 

 tion from the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the 

 Empire. We had the privilege of waiting on your predecessor a 

 year ago, and we felt that matters had marched since then : a 

 great many settlers have come into your dominions, which rather 

 alters the aspect of the case ; and, besides that, we did not get all. 

 that we hoped to have got last year, although wo had a most 

 sympathetic answer from Mr. Lyttelton. One of the most im- 

 portant things which the Society emphasised was the necessity of 

 spending more money upon the preservation of the species. We 

 think that we have now a stronger case for asking that, more 

 especially in British East Africa. 



You were kind enough to send to the Society a number of 

 despatches of great interest, from your Commissioners, dealing with 

 this subject, and we find, what some of us knew before, that the 

 actual revenue in East Africa from licences and lines from game- 

 hunters amounts to something like £10,000 a year, to say nothing 

 of the very large indirect expenditure, such as freight on railways, 

 which is expended in the country ; and we think that on the lowest 

 ground we can ask you to require a larger expenditure on watching 

 and supervision than has hitherto been the case. The Sub-Com- 

 missioner, in the report which you sent to us, deals with, this 



