42 The American Naturalist. [January,. 
the herd preserved if they can accomplish it. The crusade of the 
Audubon society against the slaughter of birds for the decoration of 
ladies’ bonnets has produced good fruit. The practice of wearing 
birds has become less common in America at least, and a relatively 
small number of women appear to be willing that the most beautiful 
of living things shall be exterminated to gratify a fleeting fancy. 
Ir is to be hoped that the recent enormous seizure of game being 
illegally shipped out of the State of Minnesota, over the Chicago, Mil- 
waukee and St. Paul Railroad, will be very much of a check upon the 
extinction of the game mammals that has been going rapidly onward 
for some time. The seizure made in the freight yards of the Chicago, 
Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, at St. Paul, comprises several tons 
of venison, and the fines, at the rate of $50 per piece, may amount from 
40,000 to 50,000 dollars. 
THE newspaper press is again publishing reports of the existence 
of the Mammoth in the interior of Alaska. Bones of this species are 
abundant in that region in the latest deposits, and there is no a priori 
impossibility in the supposition that some herds of this gigantic mam- 
mal still survive. On the other hand, the sole source of the stories are 
the aborgines, who, as we are informed, are not noted for veracity, 
and who like to be entertaining. The huge bones havé not escaped 
their observation, and may have given rise to the stories that they tell, | 
The matter is, however, worth looking into by persons who have oppor- 
tunities for doing so on the spot. 
How differently different people regard nearly the same subject may 
be illustrated by the people of Massachusetts struggling hard for the 
last five or six years to exterminate the gypsy moth and by the action 
of the Entomological Society of London in appointing a committee to 
take measures for the protection of British lepidoptera from extermina- 
tion at its meeting on October 14. Warm sympathy with the movement 
has been expressed by the London Entomological and Natural History 
Society the North London Natural History Society, and the Liecester 
Literary and Philosophical Society. The first step to be taken is to 
learn what species are in danger of extermination.—F. C. K. 
Tue Field Museum of Chicago has been recently enriched by an ex- _ 
tremely valuable callection of Egyptian Antiquities, through the gen- 
erosity of one of the trustees, Mr. Edw. E. Eyre. Some remarkably 
fine Roman bronze bath tubs from near Pompeii have been procured : 
for the Museum by Dr. Brestrad. 
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