PROTECT BIRD LIFE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 16, 20 January 1939, Page 8

PROTECT BIRD LIFE.

ATTACK ON SCIENTISTS*! AMERICAN DEFENDS MUSEUM.

"Museums are keen advocates of tk" H preservation of native ftttltlA," stated ||bJ Dr. W. K. Gregory, fish curator aai j|j| anthropologist at tlie American Museia |f| of Natural History, who is a memfe pg of the. Lerner scientific expeditiftft ttffcitk arrived at Auckland to-day* whefl attention was drawn to stateffiHra criticising a previous expedition ffflfi S tlie museum. t Dr. Gregory said that the object W the present visit was to study big 8""? fe and other fish in New Zealand ffe and its members knew nothing ot JW fe i activities of the previous party in 1921 which concerned itself with bird life fe 'He pointed out, however, that pernnti had been secured. More damage was fe done to native bird life by iftesponribles with shotguns tliatt by scientists, be |g added. It was agaihst tile policy of the ijj| museum to countenance any illegal «ct| ||-J on the part of its representatives, *nd anyone who broke the rules of BS institution were liable to dismpUMrj Kg action. te While in New Zealand it was Ms P.. intention to gain as much kltowWjj* ®* pj the Dominion as possible, to assist ® |8g the preparation of the New 2Wal«na section being added to the museunL g| With this aim ill view he intended to p, visit as many museums as he ddtild m the time at his disposal. (