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historical associations. These tendencies had given rise to the 
formation of a considerable number of societies, and to some it 
had occurred that it would be well to associate together for com- 
mon action. Happily they were interested irrespective of 
political party, and his experience of such discussions in the 
House was that they had been treated quite apart from political 
relations. It was resolved : — “ That it is desirable to make some 
permanent arrangement for concerted action between Members 
of Parliament in both Houses, on questions relating to — (a) 
the protection of rural scenes and landscape and town prospects, 
from such disfigurement or impairment as is not justified by 
considerations of public utility ; ( b ) the provision and main- 
tenance of commons, open spaces, public parks and gardens ; ( c ) 
the preservation of buildings and places which are of peculiar 
interest by age, beauty, or association, whether historical or 
literary ; ( d ) the conservation of wild animals and plants and 
generally for asserting the importance on broad grounds of 
public policy of maintaining beauty, simplicity, dignity, and 
interest in the aspect of out-of-door Britain.” It was further 
agreed, on the motion of Sir Robert Hunter, to communicate 
with the secretaries of the Commons Preservation Society, the 
Metropolitan Gardens Association, the Wild Birds Protection 
Society, the Kyrle Society, the Selborne Society, the Society 
for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, the Society of Anti- 
quaries, the Society for Checking the Abuses of Public Adver- 
tising, and the National Trust. 
Hampstead Heath. — Mrs. Ernest Hart writes to the Daily 
Chronicle of June 24, urging the desirability of securing the 
beautiful estate of Golders Hill, the property of the late Sir 
Spencer Wells, as an addition to Hampstead Heath, and men- 
tioning the valuable promises of money contributions to that 
end secured by her late husband. We need hardly say how 
thoroughly we wish success to this proposal. 
Big Game in Africa. — We believe we are right in saying 
that the area over which “big game” of all kinds is to be 
found in Africa has within the last half century been so 
curtailed as to be but a small fraction of what it was, and that 
many beautiful species of antelope have become rare if not 
extinct. This process of extermination is likely to go on even 
more rapidly than heretofore if “ sportsmen ” are going to 
follow the example of Mr. Seton-Karr. We have received a 
card stating that “ Mr. Seton-Karr made the following bag in a 
six weeks’ shooting expedition in Somaliland. This is given as 
a specimen of an average bag : 5 elephants, 2 lions (male), 8 
leopards, 2 wart hogs, n great spotted hyaenas, 7 striped 
hyaenas, 4 oryx beisa antelope, 10 awal antelope, 2 common 
gazelle, 2 bottlenose antelope, 2 gerenuk antelope, 1 lesser 
koodoo, 18 dig-dig antelope, besides birds. On the next trip 
