XxXll. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 
Royal Society of South Australia, 
Adelaide, 17 June, 1908. 
The Secretary of the Royal Society of N. S. Wales. 
The following motion has found a place on the minutes of this 
Society—‘“The Council of the Royal Society of S.A. would draw 
the attentions of the Council of the Royal Society of N.S. Wales 
and of the Linnean Society of the same State to the necessity for 
legislation to preserve the Fauna of New South Wales. This 
may be possibly best effected by providing for the complete 
protection of the Fauna in all the forests of the State in any 
legislation which may be introduced on the Report of the Royal 
Commission on Forests which recently visited this State (S.A.).” 
My Council quite believe that this important question has not 
escaped your notice, but feels how very necessary it is for scientific, 
and possibly other reasons, to preserve the native animals of 
Australia from extinction. 
G. G. Mayo, Hon. Secretary. 
Advisory Committee re Fisheries and Game Acts in Victoria. 
National Museum, Melbourne, 
18th July, 1908. 
Owing to the great destruction of our native birds, particularly 
the Egrets, Lyre Birds, and Birds of Paradise, in order to 
obtain their skins and plumes for ornamental purposes, the above 
Committee, which has been formed to advise the Victorian 
Government on matters pertaining to the Fisheries and Game 
-Acts, has decided to approach the Commonwealth Government 
with a view to action being taken to prevent the exportation 
of the skins and plumes of these birds. It is particularly desirable 
that the various Australian Societies interested in the protection 
of our native fauna should co-operate in this matter, and with 
this object I have been requested by the above Committee to 
ask your Society to kindly forward us an expression of its opinion 
in order to strengthen its hands in approaching the Government. 
In view of the recent introduction to the British Parliament by 
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