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Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 
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Wild Birds Protection Acts. 
The following committees have been appointed to advise 
the Government in connection with the administration of 
the Wild Birds Protection Acts : — 
By the Home Secretary for England— 
His Grace the Duke of Rutland, K.G. ( Chairman ). 
Mr. H. G. Maurice, C.B., of the Ministry of Agricul¬ 
ture. 
Dr. Percy R. Lowe, O.B.E., of the Natural History 
Museum. 
Dr. Montague Sharpe, K.C., Chairman of the Royal 
Society for the Protection of Birds. 
Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker, O.B.E., F.Z.S., Secretary ot 
the British Ornithologists’ Union. 
By the Secretary for Scotland— 
Mr. Hugh S. Gladstone, F.R.S.E. (Chairman). 
Mr. Wm. Eagle Clarke, LL.D. 
Mr. Walter E. Collinge, D.Sc. 
Mr. H. M. Conacher (representing the Board of Agri¬ 
culture for Scotland). 
Mr. H. J. Crowe (representing the Fishery Board for 
Scotland). 
Professor J. Arthur Thomson, LL.D. 
Russian Ornithologists. 
In the list of members of the Union will be found the 
names of six Russian Ornithologists, and we have recently 
made several attempts to find out what has become of them 
since the revolution in Russia. From various sources we 
learn the following, though the evidence is not altogether 
satisfactory in any single case. Michael Menzbier is believed 
to have been murdered in the streets of Moscow early in the 
revolution. Sergius Buturlin is also reported to have died. 
Valentine Bianchi is alive and still at the Museum of the 
Academy of Sciences at Petrograd. Peter Suskin was 
