The Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the
Empire has resumed its useful activities, interrupted by the war, and has published the first part of a new series of its Journal (A. L. Humphreys, 2s. 6d. net). This contains four articles on the problem of the African elephant. Mr. R. T. Coryndon, writing from his experience in Uganda, says that there is no danger of the extinction of the elephant in that country, and that the herds are a curse to the native farmers in many districts. On the other hand, Dr. Chalmers Mitchell, after viewing the country from an aeroplane on his attempted flight to the Cape, admits that elephants are numerous, but questions whether they may not perish as quickly as the buffaloes did in Western America. Mr. R. E. Drake-Brockman thinks that the regulations against the reckless killing of elephants are imperfectly enforced. " Sabi ' takes a similar view, and suggests that even in British territories
the elephant is denied his full legal protection, while in other parts of Africa the game laws are rarely observed.
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