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NATURE NOTES 
Protection of Animals in the Federated Malay States. 
— The Colonial Office, in reply to the enquiries of the Council, 
have furnished particulars as to recent legislation in Selangor, 
Negri Sembilan, Perak and Pahang. It is unlawful to kill any 
female elephant, under a penalty of five hundred dollars ; to kill 
male elephants, bison, rhinoceros, or tapir without a licence, 
under the same penalty ; to shoot any animal in any reserve 
proclaimed by the Sultan, under the same penalty ; to shoot 
any deer in May, June, July, or August, under a penalty of one 
hundred dollars; or to shoot any birds in a schedule including 
over thirty species, among which are pea-fowl, jungle-fowl, 
pheasants, quail, pigeons and parrots, between February and 
May, under a penalty of five dollars. The head, carcase, feet, 
skin, tusks, horns, or plumage of animals unlawfully killed are 
liable to forfeiture, and the informer may be awarded half the 
penalty. The Resident is empowered to vary the schedules. 
Collecting. — In the September number of The Entomologist 
Mr. A. J. Lawrence complains of the results of the operations of 
the “dealer,” and then goes on to enumerate his own captures, 
including thirty specimens of Hyria muricata (auroraria), and five, 
out of seven seen, of Avgynnis papltia, var. valesina. How does 
such collecting differ as regards the danger of the extermina- 
tion of our rarer Lepidoptera from that of the much-abused 
“ dealer ” ? 
The Cottages in Henley Street, Stratford-on-Avon. — 
The trustees of Shakespere’s birthplace have decided to preserve 
and restore the two cottages adjoining the garden of the birth- 
place. As it was originally intended to demolish them, the 
action of many members of the Selborne Society in joining in 
Miss Marie Corelli’s demand for delay and reconsideration of the 
subject has been fully justified. 
Scheme for Recording Ancient Defensive Earthworks. — 
At the Congress of Archaeological Societies held on July, io, 
1901, a Committee was appointed to prepare a scheme for a 
systematic record of ancient defensive earthworks and fortified 
enclosures. This Committee includes Professors Boyd Dawkins 
and Wintle, Mr. J. H. Round and Mr. St. John Hope, and has 
as Honorary Secretary Mr. J. Chalkley Gould, whose address is 
Royal Societies Club, St. James’s Street. They hope to secure 
the co-operation of County, Borough and District Councils, and 
of landowners as well as of archaeologists in compiling schedules 
of the various kinds of earthworks, with a view to their pre- 
servation. An interesting “ Provisional Scheme ” issued by the 
Committee contains twenty plans of typical instances. As such 
work falls within the objects of the Selborne Society we hope 
any of our members who are in a position to assist will com- 
municate with Mr. Chalkley Gould. 
