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game has been instituted, certain wild birds have been protected, and 

 certain classes of animals have been protected in certain forest tracts. 

 Whether these various measures may not be carried a little further 

 was a matter which he promised to investigate. It was impossible to 

 lay down rigid rules, for what was useful in one place might be 

 injurious in another. A restriction on carrying arms by the imposition 

 of a licence fee, the enforcement of a close season in regard to par- 

 ticular animals, restrictions on the facilities given to strangers to 

 shoot game, and on the export of trophies and skins, were, he thought, 

 matters worthy of consideration, and the Government would probably 

 proceed on these lines. — Shooting Times. 



We have received, with the greatest regret, the news of the 

 death of Dr. T. Thorell, the distinguished arachnologist. Dr. Thorell 

 was born in 1830, and died on December 23rd, 1901, at Helsingborg, 

 Sweden. 



It has previously been remarked in these pages that 1901 might 

 be called the "Okapia year." We have now received 'The Song of 

 the Okapi,' written by the veteran Secretary of the Zoological Society, 

 Dr. P. L. Sclater, and set to suitable music. 



