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THE efforts made, officially and unofficially, to protect the rare creatures of Australia, deserve commendation, but their effectiveness as regards certain species is in some doubt, if we may judge from the opinion of the Council of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales (see NATURE, Dec. 5, 1931, p. 935). Moreover, Mr. Lewis should have reminded us that the Melbourne Argus of Sept. 18, 1931, published six days after our leading article appeared, announced that an individual had been fined £955 5s. for unlawfully consigning 3821 skins of ‘opossums’, a fact which suggests that the protection afforded by the law is yet far from perfect (see NATURE, Jan. 23, 1932, p. 126).
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Vanishing Life of Australia. Nature 129, 724 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129724c0
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