XXIV. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS, 
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exportation of the skins and plumes of Australian native birds, hee 4 
I may mention that at the request of the Royal Society for the 
Protection of Birds, London, we recently wrote to the Hon. the 
Minister for External Affairs, Commonwealth of Australia, urging 
upon him the desirability of renewing the proclamation protecting 
the native birds in New Guinea. The Royal Society of South 
Australia has also been in communication with this Society respect- 
ing the necessity for legislation providing for the complete pro- — 
tection of the fauna in all the forests in this State, a matter which 
obviously commends itself to our heartiest approval and sympathy, 
and we shall be only too pleased to do our utmost to further all 
these desirable objects. 
J. H. Maipen, Hon. Secretary. 
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Advisory Committee re Fisheries and Game Acts in Victoria. 
National Museum, Melbourne, 
5th August, 1908. 
We beg to thank you for your letter of 31st ultimo, express- 
ing the sympathy of your Society with the object of the 
proposed deputation to the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, 
in regard to the prohibition of the exportation of the skins and 
plumes of Australian birds. 
The deputation waited upon the Honorable the Prime Minister 
on Tuesday, August 4th, and was most favourably received. We 
enclose a cutting from the Age of August 5th, in which the reply 
of the Prime Minister is given, and will communicate again with 
you in the event of it being thought necessary to take any further 
steps. 
W. BaLtpwin SpENcER, Chairman. 
The Hon. Secretary Jas. A. Kersuaw, Hon. Secretary. 
Royal Society of New South Wales. 
See also lengthy reports in the Sydney Morning Herald 
and Sydney Daily Telegraph of 5th August. 
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