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that the shore-birds were not exterminated long ago." He would 

 stop spring shooting and close our markets to the sale of game. We 

 wish that the 'great brotherhood of sportsmen' would agree to this. 

 Their attempt to pose as 'lovers of bird life,' as ornithologists, or as 

 'Roosevelt-like' is unsuccessful; and if our author really desires to 

 "work loyally in an effort to save our wild life from the extermination 

 which threatens," will he continue to destroy it ? 



F. T. Lewis. 



Game Laws for 1907.— Farmers' Bulletin 308 of the U. S. Dept. of 

 Agriculture presents a summary of the game laws of the United States 

 and Canadian Provinces. In the number of bills introduced and in the 

 general demand for change of some sort the record of 1907 is second 

 to that of no previous year, although the number of bills actually passed 

 was equaled by the legislation of 1905. Most of the changes were 

 made to secure greater protection. In several states the seasons were 

 closed entirely for certain kinds of game. On the other hand in many 

 places certain restrictions were removed. The legislation is said to be 

 in a transition stage; settled policies have not been dctemiined but 

 various compromises are made between the sportsmen, the ornitholo- 

 gists' unions, and the majority of people with whom such ](-'ri.>l;iti.ni is 

 by no means an issue. Thus these laws are abitrary, comi)lrx. and 

 difficult of enforcement. Hunting is prohibited in soino M;ir\ian(l 

 counties on election day; water-fowl are protected on ^Mondays in 

 Ohio. A Maine license which requires $5.00 ordinarily for tlie ship- 

 ment of a moose, etc., permits shipment to a hospital. Ahiska. allows 

 the sportsman 25 shore birds a day, whereas ^Slaine i)ermiis 15 ducks 

 and 70 sandpipers. Such whimsical laws cannot hv ]XMMnan* iu. and 

 the study of the situation now being conducted should Icail to th<'ir 

 improvement. Many measures, last year, were allowed to fail ratiicr 

 than pass in an unsatisfactory form. 



F. T. Lewis. 



Notes on the Structure of Insects.— The Ovaries of the Hemiptera.— 

 In a recent review the writer referred to the two opposing views regard- 

 ing the development of the sex-cells in the ovaries of insects. As is 

 well known, each ovary consists of a variable number of egg-tubes 

 opening into the oviduct. Each tube is divided into three zones: 1st, 

 the terminal filament which, uniting with those from neighboring tubes, 

 forms the suspensorium of the organ; 2nd, the terminal chamber and, 

 3rd, the germarium or chambered egg-tube. 



