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zoologists. It may be remembered that the 

 success of South Africa's gift of a wonderful 

 game collection to the King on the occasion of 

 His Majesty's coronation was, I believe, wholly 

 due to Major Stevenson-Hamilton's efforts, which 

 his many friends both at home and abroad still 

 look to see suitably recognised. 



I have no hesitation in stating that of all the 

 game sanctuaries I have mentioned, that which 

 I have last referred to is the only one which can 

 be regarded as completely fulfilling the purposes 

 for which it was intended, or at all events comes 

 nearest to doing so. For although the estab- 

 lishment of these areas has received a certain 

 amount of more or less apathetic attention in 

 all the British Spheres of Influence in Africa, 

 the adoption of proper measures for the well- 

 being of the species sought to be preserved and 

 increased has not always been allowed to 

 monopolise sufficient attention. It is all very 

 well to publish in the official Gazettte of a colony 

 or protectorate the boundaries of a large area 

 in which the hunting or taking of game is for- 

 bidden ; but it is quite another to take the proper 

 measures, by the allocation • of suitable annual 

 grants of money, and the employment of a 

 properly selected staff, for the realisation of the 

 purposes of the increase and protection of game. 

 Of course we must not lose sight of the diffi- 

 culties with which in these regards our admini- 

 strators are surrounded ; their positions do not 

 always enable them to carry out much which is 

 obviously desirable. For all that, however, I 



