An Advisory Board was elected, consisting of the 

 following persons: Prof. Franklin W. Hooper, Prof. 

 David Starr Jordan, Prof. Morton J. Elrod, Prof. L. L. 

 Dyche, Prof. John H. Ceroid, William Lyman Under- 

 wood, Madison Grant, Ernest Thompson Seton and 

 Frederic H. Kennard. 



The President was empowered to appoint an Executive 

 Committee of seven men, to include the President and 

 Secretary. He appointed Messrs. Frederic H. Kennard 

 and William Lyman Underwood, of Boston; Madison 

 Grant and W. T. Hornaday, of New York; Mr. Gififord 

 Pinchot and Dr. T. S. Palmer, of Washington, D. C., and 

 E. H. Baynes. 



The Executive Committee was instructed to draft a 

 Constitution. 



Professor Hooper suggested that since there were 

 several herds of Buffalo in Canada, including the only 

 wild herd of any size in existence, the Canadians would 

 doubtless be much interested in the Society, and should 

 be invited to join hands with the people of the United 

 States in this effort to preserve an animal common to both 

 countries. He moved that the Premier of Canada be 

 invited to hold office in the Society, and accepted Mr. 

 Radford's amendment that the invitation be extended to 

 the Governor-General of Canada also. 



SPECL/\L MEETING OF THE SOCIETY. 



A special meeting of the American Bison Society was 

 held at the New York Zoological Park, in the office of 

 Director W. T. Hornaday, on the 2d of February, 1906. 



President Hornaday was in the chair. Others present 

 were Prof. Franklin W. Hooper, C. J. Jones ("Buffalo" 

 Jones), Dr. T. S. Palmer, Frederic H. Kennard and 

 Ernest Harold Baynes. 



The Secretary read many letters concerning the preser- 

 vation of the Buffalo from well-known authorities in 

 different parts of the country. These letters were written 

 in answer to a series of questions recently sent out by Mr. 

 Hornaday, and the correspondents agreed that it was 

 possible to save the Buffalo from extinction, and that the 

 onlv sure way to accomplish its preservation was by estab- 



