Since the Yellowstone Park was made into a national reserve
some fifty years ago it has had many emulators. A Johannesburg correspondent of the Times announces that the Minister of Lands will introduce in the Union Parliament during the forthcoming session a Bill to enable the Government to preserve the Transvaal Game Reserves as a national park. The most important game reserves in the Transvaal form a strip of land nearly three hundred miles long with an average breadth of fifty miles, an area of some six thousand Square miles in all, extending along the border of Portuguese East Africa, where, in the wording of the Game Reserves Commission, "the natural and prehistoric conditions of our country can be preserved for all time." Action has been taken none too soon, for last year Dr. Hornaby, director of the New York Zoological Society, and Dr. Haagner, director of the Zoological Gardens of South Africa, issued a warning that many of the species were rapidly becoming extinct ; "If these animals were killed," they said, "the people of South Africa would regret it only once, and that would be for ever." The British Empire is still a long way behind the United States in the matter of providing national parks. •
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