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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



EDITED BY THE DIRECTOR 



Elwin R. Sanborn, Asst. Editor 



Published Qnarterly at the Office of the Societi/. 



11 Wall St., New York City. 



Copyright, 190S, by the New York Zoological Society. 



No. 30 JULY, 1908 



Subscription price, 50 cents for four numbers. 



Single numbers, 15 cents. 



MAILED EKEE TO MEMBER.?. 



fflfficera of tlje ^orittg. 



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Hon. Levi P. Morton. 

 izxetuUve Cammittrp: 



Prof. Henry Fairfjeld Osborn, Chairman, 

 John S. Barnes, Madison Grant, 



PERcr R. Pvne, William White Niles, 



Samuel Thorne, 



Levi P. Morton, ex-officio. 



(^rnrral (Sf&ters -. 

 Secretary, Madison Grant, 1 1 Wall Street. 

 Treasurer, Percy R. Pyne, 30 Pine Street. 

 Director, William T. Hornaday, Zoological Park. 

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



Saartt af iHanagrrfi i 



EX -OFFICIO, 

 The Mayor of the City of New York, Hon. George B. McClellan. 

 The President of the Dep't of Parks, Hon. Henry Smith. 



alius of 1909. 



Lev! P.Morton, 

 Andrew Carnegie, 

 John L. Cadwalader. 

 John S. Barnes, 

 Madison Cranl. 

 William White Niles, 

 Samuel Thorne, 

 Henry A. C. Taylor. 

 Hugh J.Chisholm. 

 Wm. D. Sloane, 

 Winthrop Rutherfurd, 

 Frank K. Sturgis, 



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THE PASSING OF THE WHALE. 



The attention of all persons interested in the 

 conservation of the animal resources of the 

 world, is especially directed to the article by 

 Mr. Lucas on "The Passing of the Whale." 

 published as a supplement to the present number 

 of the Bulletin of the New York Zoological 

 Society. It is a truthful statement by one of 

 the best-informed students of the subject. The 

 valuable whale is unquestionably going fast — 

 faster than the valuable fur seal — and soon may 

 be classed with the sea otter, American bison 

 and other wealth-producing animals whose com- 

 mercial value has been lost to man. As a source 

 of wealth the whale is the most important of all. 



Steps have been taken bj' the Zoological So- 

 ciety to place the information contained in this 

 article before legislative bodies in many j^arts 

 of the world. 



The Society as a scientific association devoted 

 to the preservation of wild animals, earnestly re- 

 quests the careful consideration of it b}' every 

 legislator into whose hands it may come. 



C. H. T. 



BISON SOCIETY SUCCESSFUL. 



The ^Montana National Bison Range is now, 

 to all intents and purposes, an accomplished 

 fact. Congress has promptly and cheerfully 

 entered into the plan of the American Bison 

 Society for joint action by the government and 

 the Society in the creation, on the Flathead In- 

 dian Reservation, of a great national herd of 

 pure-blood American bison, perpetually en- 

 dowed witli a range of 20 square miles of good 

 grazing grounds. 



The quick success of the campaign in Con- 

 gress has been almost phenomenal. Five years 

 ago, it would have been impossible for any man 

 or body of men to have succeeded in inducing 

 Congress to appropriate as large a sum as 

 $40,000 for tlie preservation of any species of 

 wild animal otlier than the fur seal. But the 

 sentiment in favor of wisely conserving the re- 

 sources of nature has lately aroused many men 

 wlio previously had not paused to consider that 

 sub] ect. 



Owing to the absolute necessity of paying the 

 Flathead Indian, s for the lands desired, an ap- 

 propriation of $30,000 has been made, and for 

 fencing tlie range a fund of $10,000 has been 

 provided. It is a reasonable certainty that the 

 range chosen by the Bison Society and formally 

 proposed to Congress, will be selected ; and it 

 will be known hereafter as the ^Montana Na- 

 tional Bison Range. 



In order to provide means for the purchase 

 of the herd of about fortj^ pure-blood bison 

 which it has agreed to present to the govern- 

 ment, the Bison Society is now setting out to 

 raise, by a great popular subscription which 

 is to cover the whole United States, a fund of 

 $10,000. Every state and territory will be in- 

 vited to contribute toward the creation of the 

 Montana national bison herd. This campaign 

 is in charge of Dr. W. T. Hornaday, with 

 headquarters at the New York Zoological Park, 

 who invites every American citizen to subscribe, 

 any sum from $1 upward, and do it now. 



THE SPECIAL ANIMAL FUND. 



Because of the absorption of more than 

 $17,000 from our Animal Fund in payments for 

 rhinoceroses, elephants, and other thick-hided 



