Cheers were given. for Dr. Julian Huxley when he ended his Christmas series of lectures to children on rare animals at the Royal Institution on Jan. 8, states the "Daily Telegraph and Morning Post."
First, he showed" a sad and cruel film" of men in the Arctic beating seals to' death. Vast numbers are Xilled—"that is the price we pay for Oi" said Dr. Huxley—and unless seals are protected there is no chance for them to survive.
Just the same cruel business on a larger scale goes on with the harpooning of whales.
What can we do to check this tendency to destruction of animal and bird life through sheer greed and ignorance on the part of human beings, he asked.
For one thing we could put up bird boxes, and Dr. Huxley showed different kinds for tits, woodpeckers and swallows, artificial clay nests to tempt the house martin, and other nests made to look like cow-shed rafters.
Then there were the national parks to which migrations had been recorded, the animals knowing in some uncanny way that they were safe there.
We could also join societies such as the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, the Fauna Society, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and local societies, Oil from ships was one of the great troubles with sea birds, It clogged their wings and rolled them up, helpless, on the beach to die of starvation, Devices could be fitted to ships which would solve this problem.:
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