Sanctuary Reserves No society has done better service on behalf
of country- loving people, whether they live in town or country, than the Society for the Preservation of Commons and Footpaths. The good work of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England (and of its offspring the C.P.R.W.) is known to everyone and appreciated everywhere. But plenty of foot- paths and wide regional places do not quite exhaust the attributes of a national park. So big an area as is meditated in Snowdonia needs little reserves from which the public is excluded except under guidance. Those famous benefactors, to whom we all owe gratitude, Sir Lawrence Chubb, with his incomparable championship of common rights and rights of way ; Mr. Patrick Abercrombie, the author and begetter of the Regional Survey, must not quite disregard natural history or forget that the many pedestrians and motorists, for whose good the park is established, will consist largely of people careless and ignorant of the life of the place they will frequent.
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