game has been instituted, certain wild birds have been protected, and certain classes of animals have been protected in certain forest tracts. Whether these various measures may not be carried a little further was a matter which he promised to investigate. It was impossible to lay down rigid rules, for what was useful in one place might be injurious in another. A restriction on carrying arms by the imposition of a licence fee, the enforcement of a close season in regard to particular animals, restrictions on the facilities given to strangers to shoot game, and on the export of trophies and skins, were, he thought, matters worthy of consideration, and the Government would probably proceed on these lines.—Shooting Times.
We have received, with the greatest regret, the news of the death of Dr. T. Thorell, the distinguished arachnologist. Dr. Thorell was born in 1830, and died on December 23rd, 1901, at Helsingborg, Sweden.
It has previously been remarked in these pages that 1901 might be called the "Okapia year." We have now received 'The Song of the Okapi,' written by the veteran Secretary of the Zoological Society, Dr. P.L. Sclater, and set to suitable music.
