The Times of Wednesday described a new Society for the
Promotion of Nature Reserves which we welcome with great pleasure. Among the objects of the Society are the following: (1) To collect and collate information as to areas of land in the United Kingdom which retain their primitive conditions and contain rare and local species liable to extinction owing to building, drainage, and disafforeatation or in consequence of the cupidity of collectors ; all such information to be treated as strictly confidential. (2) To prepare a scheme showing which areas should be secured. (3) To obtain these areas and hand them over to the National Trust under such conditions as may be necessary. Our readers know that we have often advocated the preservation of particular areas as though they were monuments of historical interest. They are, in fact, Nature's monuments. There could be no better coarse than to hand them over when acquired to the National Trust, which has amply proved its wisdom and business qualities.
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