Dr. Wu Lien-telg the Wilder, Miss M. A. Millikin, Prof.
Kella The following lecturers have been dooked: Miss Clarice S. Moise on "Landscape Architecture, its Iis-
Mr. Perey Camphor Prof. W. M. Porterfield.
Tt is hoped that Dr. Ferguson and other well known lecturers! will also lecture before the Soe'et this season. If practicable it proposed to hold an_ ext filustrating "Commercial Art, practised in Shanghai Interesting Lecture by Rev. C.
MIN. Drury to the Union Church L. & S. Guild A very interesting lecture, illustrated with a number of striking slides, was given by the Rev Clifford M. Drury at the Union, wureh Literary and Social Guild Wednesday, his subject being] Lumbering in the Pacific Northwest." The Rev. A. C. S. Trivett, MAs BD, presided. Mr. Drary, Presented the romance of foresting: from his personal experiences and most of the pictures shown were taken by himself. Mr. Drury's work.
a missionary, or "sky pilot," among the men of various lumber: camps took him to Northern' Michigan, the Lake Forest district, Louisiana near Baton Rouge, the Pacific Northwest and California im the first part of his address Mr. Drury spoke of the forest itself, its great extent and the wealth it] represents, His description of the tuncontrellable power of the forest five, carelessly. started, was very powerful. About 40 millions dollars worth of property is destroyed every year by fives on the Pacific Coast, he said,—Lumbering is the] largest single industry on the Coast and employs 220,00 men in-
China.
ard to small game, pheasants were formerly abundant the Yangtze Valley, which was 8 wonderful reserve, It was now shot out. At the present day. pheasants were numerous in Shansi, Shensi, Kansu, Hupeh, Szechuan, \woll away from the reach of cold-forage exploiters of game. The Yangtze Valley was still good for wild fowl, such ax ducks, gees snipe, while in the forests of much good shooting to be had.
The lecturer's descriptions of the wintry were illustrated with lvenutiful slides of scenes taken by, himself in the wilds, Varieties of Big Game discussing the various kinds} big. Mr, Sowerby said at there were from 20 to it ferent kinds of hoofed animal including—wapiti, spotted deer (Sikn), oe deer, river deer, mun tides, musk deer, ssu pu hsiang (extinct), big horn sheep, blue sheep, gorals,—serows, takins, oitred gazelle, Mongolian gazelle, Pzeralskis gazelle and wild pig. He described several personal experiences in hunting thes animals.
Besides these hoofed animals, shore are a number of large:
mnivores, which can be included in the category of big gam These are tigers, leopards, bears wolves. Some of the lecturer's experiences with these animals, said, were hair-rais Enumerating the kinds of small game, Mr, Sowerby told of his} own and other people's experiences in shooting pheasants, partridge quails, bustard, geese, duck waders and spoke of the enemies of; game in the country, many of hho raid, to be classed bearing animals. Such were the wild cats, civets, foxes, wild dogs, raccoon dogs, otter, badgers, mink, nniavten and ' ermine.
Other enemies were predacious such as eagles, owls and hawks, while snakes did a good deal of damage to eggs and young birds Dir. Sowerby thought it not unwarrantable to include fishing in Tecture, and passed a few remarks on this interesting subject, He mentioned briefly the kinds of fish in the country and whort brainable." Trout, salmon, pk carp and catfish were the; Serpent heads might, also be taken, as well as cels and other less sporting species. Sea Aching has hardly been tried out.
In conclusion the lecturer discussed hunting for natural history specimens, his own speciality. He gave details of trapping by foreign collectors with foreign traps, and. by natives who have numerous methods.
The various kinds of beasts taken were-mainly rats, squirrels, shrews, moles;. bats- and pangolin. Birds
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