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Show Siam Offers Fertile Field for Naturalist , The fact that two American naturalists natural-ists are now on a collecting tour In Siam brings to mind the fact that of late years really remarkable progress lias been made In the fetudy of the fauna of this country. But there still remains a good deal that can be done Jn this field, which Is a very much larger one than most people would suppose, for we are really sort of junction between three roads, the Indian, In-dian, the Chinese and what has been termed the "Malaysian." It seems rather a pity that no effort is made to popularize the study of the birds, feasts and fishes. A natural history museum should not only grove of scientific sci-entific use, but would doubtless aid a good deal In dispelling the rather woeful Ignorance that seems generally general-ly to exist regarding the magnificent .fauna of a land that Is extremely fortunately for-tunately situated as the meeting place ;of species and of types. Slam Observer. |