The New Forest in Danger

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IN connection with my letter which appeared in NATURE of the 28th ult. (p. 29.5), it may interest some of your readers to know that the petitions, to which I referred, in support of the Bill for excepting the New Forest from the operation of the Ranges Act, 1891, have already been signed by Lord Walsingham, F.R.S. Prof. C. Stewart (President of the Linnean Society), Sir Joseph D. Hooker, F.R.S., Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., Mr. Osbert Salvin, F.R.S., Dr. A. Günther, F.R.S., Dr. H. Woodward, F.R.S., Mr. W. Carruthers, F.R.S., Dr. D. Sharp, F.R.S., Mr. Thiselton-Dyer, C.M.G., F.R.S., Mr. H. W. Bates, F.R.S., Mr. F. DuCane-Godman, F.R.S., Dr. G. Buchanan, F.R.S., Dr. B. Richardson, F.R.S., Prof. J. O. Westwood (Professor of Zoology, Oxford), Dr. Thorne-Thorne, F.R.S., Mr. J. G. Baker, F.R.S., Mr. W. H. Preece, F.R.S., Mr. Botting Hemsley, F.R.S., Mr. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., Mr. R. McLachlan, F.R.S., Mr. C. B. Clarke, F.R.S., Major-General Carden, Prof. Jeffrey Bell (Secretary of the Microscopical Society), Dr. Franklin Parsons, Mr. Daydon Jackson (Secretary of the Linnean Society), Mr. J. E. Harting, Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, Mr. J. Britten, Mr. E. Saunders, Colonel Swinhoe, Mr. A. W. Bennett (Vice-President of the Linnean Society), Mr. Percy Sladen (Secretary of the Linnean Society), Mr. D. Morris, Mr. Miller-Christy, and by a large number of other Fellows of the Linnean, Geological, Zoological, and Entomological Societies of London; and by the editors of the Geological Magazine, the Journal of Botany, the Zoologist, the Entomologists' Monthly Magazine, and the Entomologist.