XX. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 
The Royal Society of New South Wales, 
The Society’s House, 5 Elizabeth-st., N. 
22nd June, 1908. 
The Hon. the Minister for External Affairs, Commonwealth of 
Australia. (Through the Hon. the Premier for N.S. Wales.) 
The Council of the Royal Society of New South Wales have 
received a letter—a copy of which is enclosed—from the Royal 
Society for the Protection of Birds, asking them to approach you 
with the object of having the Proclamation renewed which was at 
one time in force against the indiscriminate destruction of birds 
in Papua. The Council of the Royal Society of N.S. Wales 
unanimously expressed their sympathy with the objects of the 
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and instructed us to 
bring the letter of this Society before your notice and to urge 
upon you the desirability of renewing the Proclamation protecting 
the native birds. As it appears that the slaughter of these 
beautiful and harmless creatures is carried out solely in the 
interest of a few trading companies, we feel that we have ample 
justification on humane grounds for asking you to regulate their 
destruction and prevent their extermination. 
J. H. Maripen 
F. B. Gurariz 
Royal Society of N. S. Wales. 
Hon. Secs. 
Department of the Attorney General and of Justice, 
Sydney, 26th June, 1908. 
In acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 22nd 
instant, forwarding a communication in regard to bird destruction 
in Papua, for transmission to the Minister of External Affairs, 
Melbourne, I am directed by the Premier to inform you that your 
request has been complied with. 
J. L. Witutams, Under Secretary. 
F. B. Guthrie, Esq., F.c.s., Hon. Secretary, Royal Society of New 
South Wales, Sydney. 
