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ZOOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY BULLETIN 



Number 40 



PuhUshed bij the New York Zoological Society 



Jul I). 1910 



XATIOXAL COLLECTIOX OF HEADS AXD HORXS. 



WHEN Mr. Madison Grant declared in his 

 address on June 2, that "as big-game 

 s|)ortsmen, we are the last of our race," 

 the statement startled his audience ; but the sen- 

 tences that followed quickly convinced every 

 listener of its truth. The occasion was the 

 luncheon given by the Zoological Society at the 

 Boat House Restaurant in the Zoological Park, 

 for the contributors to the National Collection 

 of Heads and Horns.* 



*Mr. Grant's address will be published in full in 

 tlie next number of the "Heads and Horns" annual. 



The key-notes of Mr. Grant's address were — 

 the inexorable disappearance of the grand game 

 animals of the world, and the imperative neces- 

 sity of gathering now the collections tliat will 

 adequately represent them hereafter when rem- 

 nants of the wild species of to-day will exist 

 only in protected game preserves, — or not at all. 



As an illustration of what the immediate fu- 

 ture has in store, take the wild-animal paradise 

 that still exists in British East Africa. There 

 are few men who know more of the wild life of 

 tliat region, by actual daily contact, than ]Mr. 



AFRICAN ELEPHANT TUSKS, PRESENTED BY THE LATE CHARLES T. BARNEY. 

 Some of the heads and horns from the Barber Collection may be seen on the wall. 



