PACONATIONALSCOLEECTION: OF HEADS 
AND HORNS. 
OTWITHSTANDING the existence of game laws, and the 
constant efforts of many persons who believe in the protec- 
tion of wild life, it is an undeniable fact that, in nearly all parts 
of the world that yet are inhabited by large animals, the creatures 
of horn, hoof, and claw are rapidly disappearing. [In Alaska, 
the finest hunting ground possessed by this nation, we regretfully 
admit that the existing game law appears to have availed very 
little in checking the appalling slaughter of moose, caribou, and 
mountain sheep. 
Although in Africa the English are doing their utmost to con- 
serve their remaining stock of large hoofed mammals, in the best 
game districts it is practically certain that the various species are 
being killed more rapidly than they breed. 
But for the timely and thoughtful efforts of the Duke of Bed- 
ford, Pére David’s deer, of Manchuria, would have been com- 
pletely exterminated, actually before our eyes, five years ago. 
To-day, not one living specimen remains save in the Woburn 
Park herd of His Grace. 
In view of facts such as the above, it has seemed to the Secretary 
of the Society, and the Director of the Zoological Park, the im- 
perative duty of American sportsmen, zoologists, and taxider- 
mists, that a complete and perfect collection of the heads and 
horns of the world’s ungulates should be formed in America, 
without delay. In viewing the whole situation, it has seemed 
desirable that the Zoological Society should accept the ownership 
of such a collection, in case it is formed, and assume the duty of 
maintaining it acceptably and in perpetuity. 
Accordingly, the creation of a great collection, to be national 
in the scope of its founding, has been seriously proposed ; and the 
title chosen for it is “The National Collection of Heads and 
Horns.” It is believed that the sportsmen and naturalists of 
America will be found willing to form the collection; and the 
New York Zoological Society, by a formal resolution adopted on 
December 20, 1906, by the Executive Committee, has decided 
to accept, maintain, and suitably exhibit the collection. On the 
date mentioned, Mr. Hornaday presented to the Society, as a 
