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of his sons, who has travelled in different parts of the world, 
gathered together a fine private collection of these, and also 
sent many valuable examples to the Hull Museum. 
In the old days of the Hull Literary and Philosophical 
Society, Mr. Audas played a prominent part. He acted as 
Hon. Curator for several years, and when the present writer 
took charge of that Society’s collections over twenty years 
ago, he well remembers the large, boldly-written labels (albeit 
age and dust had not improved them) on hundreds of the 
specimens, every one of which had been written by Mr. Audas 
somewhere about half a century ago. He was for many years 
the Secretary of the Society, and organised the popular Satur- 
day afternoon penny lectures, which were such an important 
feature of the Society’s work, but which unfortunately were 
allowed to lapse when Mr. Audas gave up his secretary -ship. 
So long ago as 1896 Mr. Audas compiled a * Catalogue of 
the Pease Collection of Birds in the Museum of the Literary 
and Philosophical Society,’ and The Transactions of the Hull 
Scientific and Field Naturalists Club contain notes from him, 
including an admirable paper on ‘ Local Wild-duck Decoys.’ 
He took a lively interest in the affairs of this Hull Society, 
and was President during the years 1900 and 1902. He was 
well known and respected by all classes in Hull and district, 
and his loss is a serious one to local natural history. Mr. 
Audas was a native of Lincolnshire. He leaves a widow, a 
daughter, and three sons, to whom we extend every sympathy. 
— T.S. 
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The Conservation of the Wild Life of Canada. By C. Gordon 
Hewitt, D.Sc. New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons, XX. + 343 pp. The 
Canadian National Parks Branch of the Department of the Interior, 
Ottawa, is to be congratulated on the production of the above monumental 
work on conservation, under the distinguished authorship of the late Dr. 
C. Gordon Hewitt. Although ten years of life in office were his lot in 
which to study the greatly diversified and still abundant fauna of Canada, 
the work is remarkable in so far as it deals with almost every type of 
animal life to be found in the foothill, mountain and plain. Conservation 
is, of course, the principal theme of the book, and fortunately, owing to 
the customary foresight of the Canadian Government in following the 
advice of its officials, the animal species that were in danger of becoming 
■extinct a few years ago are now being preserved in the natural parks 
and enclosures. The history of the buffalo in Canada, as presented by 
the author, reads as a romance, and their destruction in millions before 
the advent of human settlers is almost unbelievable. In the words of 
the author ‘ the vast herds seemed to clothe the prairies in a coat of brown. 
They were as thick as the leaves in the forest. These countless herds 
greeted the advance guards of civilisation, and that process spelled their 
■doom.’ The work is beautifully illustrated throughout by excellent 
photographs and text figures ; Plate V., showing a herd of caribou in 
the North-west Territories, is propably the most striking animal photo- 
graph ever taken in Canada. There is a good index, and the work is 
supplied with the right number of distribution -maps and statistics. — G.S. 
Naturalist 
