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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BUL LETIN 



EDITED BY THE DIRECTOR 



Elwin R. Sanborn, Asst. Editor 



Published Quarterly at the Office of the Society, 11 Wall St., 



New York City. 



Copyright, igoy, by the New York Zoological Society. 



No. 26. JULY, 1907 



Subscription price, 50 cents for four numbers. 



Single numbers, 15 cents. 



MAILED FREE TO MEMBERS. 



©ffiters of tbe S>ocictp. 



^resiibent : 

 Cxecutibt CommiRee : 



Charles T. Barney, Chairman, 



John S. Barnes, Madison Grant, 



Percy R. Pyne, William White Niles, 



Samuel Thorne, Henry Fairfield Osborn, 



Levi P. Morton, ex-officio. 



^tneral j^ffictrs : 



Secretary, Madison Grant, 1 1 Wall Street. 

 treasurer, Percy R. Pyne, 52 Wall Street. 

 Director, William T. Hornaday, Zoological Park. 

 Director ol the Aquarium. Charles H.Townsend, Battery Park 



^oarb of illanagtTS : 



EX-OFFlClO, 

 TheMayorofthcCilvof New iork, Hon. George B. McClellan. 

 771? President of the Dep't of Parks, Hon. Moses Herrman. 



ClagB of 1908. Class of 1909. Class of 1910. 



Henry F. Osborn. Levi P. Morlun. F. Augustus Schernierhorn, 



Charles T. Barney. Andre" Carnegie. Percy R^ ''V"?. 



Hugh D. Auchincloss. William While Niles, Cleveland H. Dodge. 



Charles F. Dieterich. Samuel Thorne. C. Ledyard Blair, 



James J. Hill, Henry A. C. Tavlor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, 



George F. Baker, Hu,jh I. Chisholm, Nelson Robinson, 



Grant B. Schley, Wm. D. Sloane. Frederick G. Bourne. 



Payne Whitney, Winthrop Rutherfurd, W. Austin Wadsworth. 



A STATE BISON HERD. 



■ The initial efifort of the officers of the 

 American Bison Society to bring about the 

 estabHshment of a state herd of American 

 bison, to be permanently located on state lands, 

 and owned and maintained by the state of 

 New York, has been thwarted. The bill 

 introduced and vigorously pushed by Assem- 

 blyman Frank H. Hooper was by Senator 

 Armstrong kindly translated into an item of 

 the annual supply bill, where it met the ap- 

 proval of Speaker Wadsworth, Assemblyman 

 Moreland, Chairman of the Assembly Com- 

 mittee on Ways and Means, and all the mem- 

 bers of the Conference Committee. It is a 

 pleasing fact that the measure encountered no 

 determined opposition, and all the leading 

 Senators and Assemblymen have cordially fav- 

 ored it. The only necessity for the strenuous 

 efforts in behalf of this measure that were put 

 forth by Professor Franklin W. Hooper and 

 the President of the Bison Society, ably as- 

 sisted by Mr. Harry \'. Radford, was by rea- 

 son of the fact that the initial appropriation 

 necessary is $20,000, and there were calls for 

 state money beyond the amount available. 



For a time it seemed that the proposed bison 

 herd was desired by every citizen of this state. 

 The item passed both houses of the legislature, 

 practically by unanimous consent, and went to 

 (Governor Hughes in the supply bill. Without 

 the slightest warning, and to the profound 

 surprise of everyone. Governor Hughes picked 

 out the item for the state bison herd, and 

 vetoed it. 



WICHITA BUFFALO RANGE. 



We are advised by the Bureau of Forestry, 

 of the Department of Agriculture, that the ful- 

 filment of the contract for the erection of the 

 fences, corrals, barn and sheds of the Wichita 

 Buffalo Range has been satisfactorily carried 

 out. By July isth, the work will be completed, 

 and the range will be ready. For several ex- 

 cellent reasons, it is not best to send the herd 

 southward in midsummer, but at the earliest 

 satisfactory date the shipment will be made. 

 It is the opinion of those most interested that 

 ( )ctober will be the best month for the trans- 

 fer of the nucleus herd, and arrangements will 

 be made accordingly. 



THE ZOOLOGICAL CONGRESS. 



Every two years the zoologists of Europe 

 and America meet in an International Con- 

 gress. One week is devoted to a series 

 of meetings embracing fifteen sections, or 

 branches, of zoological work and interest. 

 These sections cover the whole range of 

 human activity as concerned with animate na- 

 ture, and they also cover the zoology of all 

 e.Ktinct forms of life. During past years, ses- 

 sions of the International Congress have been 

 held, as follows: Paris, 1889; Moscow, 1892; 

 Lyden, 1895; Cambridge, 1898; Berlin, 1901 ; 

 and Berne, 1904. 



At Berne, the Congress received an invi- 

 tation from the zoologists of America to hold 

 its seventh session in Boston, in 1907. That in- 

 vitation was accepted, and the Congress will 

 convene in Boston on August 19th. It will 

 close its sessions there on August 23d, and 

 after that date, both the American and foreign 

 members will journey to Woods Holl, New 

 York, Philadelphia and Washington. To New 

 York City and vicinity will be devoted the en- 

 tire week beginning on Monday, August 26th. 

 Thursday, August 29th, has been specially set 

 apart as "The New York Zoological Society 

 Day," and on that date, the members of the 

 Congress will visit the New York Zoological 

 Park and Aquarium. 



