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NATURE NOTES 
tated gardens. Just now, however, it looks as if half the woods 
and gardens in the district were to be covered with new hotels.” 
— Daily Mail. 
Protection of Wild Animals in the Straits Settlements. 
— As the Courts have decided that the whale is a fish, it is, we 
presume, hopeless to object to the want of logic in the title of 
“ The Wild Animals and Birds Protection Ordinance, 1904,” 
with reference to the Straits Settlements, which we have just 
received from the Colonial Office. It empowers the Governor in 
Council “ to establish a close-time for any wild animal or bird,” 
to prohibit netting or snaring generally, or in any specified area, 
or to empower the Chief Police Officer of any Settlement to issue 
shooting licences for three months. Killing, taking, or having 
in possession the body of any animal or the eggs of any bird 
during close-time is punishable by a fine not exceeding fifty 
dollars ; but wild birds actually found damaging crops by the 
occupier or custodian of cultivated lands are expressly excluded 
from protection. The Schedule includes thirty-four species of 
birds enumerated under their Malay names, and in nineteen cases 
under such English names as Snipe, Teal, Plover, Sandpiper, 
Pheasant, Curlew. Would it not be possible — merely in the 
interests of that exactitude dear alike to lawyers and to men of 
science — to add the scientific names, especially where no collo- 
quial English equivalent for the Malay appears to exist ? 
The School Nature-Study Union. — This Union has re- 
cently issued a useful pamphlet — reprinted from The Museums 
Journal for January — showing the facilities for Nature-Study 
offered by eight Museums and seven Gardens in and near London. 
Teachers will, however, do well to bear in mind that in many 
cases, notably in that of Kew Gardens, it will be well to make 
previous application, or official red-tape entanglements may be 
encountered. Might not the Epping Forest Museum, Queen 
Elizabeth’s Lodge, have been included ? The Union also issues 
a list of books dealing with Nature-Study. 
Nature-Study at an Industrial Exhibition. — Two years 
ago the Society gave a prize in connection with a Nature-Study 
Section at the Hammersmith Industrial Exhibition. The 
Society which organised the undertaking still continues to invite 
Nature-Study exhibits, and Mr. Wilfred Mark Webb, Honorary 
Secretary of the Selborne Society, in response to an invitation, 
gave an address on January 23, 1905, on “ Nature-Study and 
the Pursuit of Natural History,” at the Hammersmith Town 
Hall. The objects of the remarks, which were illustrated by 
lantern slides, was primarily to afford ideas as to suitable Nature- 
Study exhibits to be shown at the Spring Exhibition. Mr. Webb, 
however, had something to say by way of general introduction, 
which was as follows: “ The title chosen for my lecture is two- 
fold, for Nature-Study is a different thing from the pursuit of 
