EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 71 



existence that regards the saving of wild species from extinction 

 as a duty decidedly paramount to the comfortable and unruffled 

 study of the anatomy and habits of those species. 



The year 1913 has been marked by great activity on the 

 part of the Zoological Society in the promotion of measures cal- 

 culated to be of far-reaching benefit to the wild life of our con- 

 tinent and the world at large. The Society's campaign book, 

 "Our Vanishing Wild Life," was designed to stir up the laggard 

 states of our country as they have not before been aroused, and 

 spur them to action. To the printing and circulating of that 

 volume the Society devoted the largest sum of money that ever 

 has been expended by any protective organization in a single 

 campaign effort. The volume reached Congress and 48 State 

 legislatures while they were in session, and giving consideration 

 to wild life measures. The struggle for the McLean-Weeks mi- 

 gratory bird law was fairly at its crisis when the volume was 

 placed in the hands of all members of Congress, and the ex- 

 pressions which it elicited were entirely satisfactory. 



In support of the federal migratory bird bill, the Society 

 labored long and arduously, especially directing its efforts to 

 arousing the newspaper and agricultural press of the nation and 

 the granges, both state and national. Articles furnished by the 

 Society were published in about 1,250 newspapers and maga- 

 zines, and called forth hundreds of editorials in support of the 

 general cause. 



Before the McLean-Weeks measure was fairly out of the 

 way, the Society assumed before Congress the risk of proposing 

 a clause in the new tariff bill to provide for the protection of 

 the birds of the world against the agents of the millinery trade. 

 The campaign that ensued placed upon the Director of the Park 

 an extra burden of work which continued without a break from 

 January 30 to October 4, when the tariff bill was signed, con- 

 taining the feather millinery clause identically as originally 

 drawn by the Society. This very costly campaign completely ex- 

 hausted the funds that were available for the protection of wild 

 life, and rendered necessary a call to the Annual Members of 

 the Society for a special fund. This call met with a generous 

 response, and in a short time $1,855 were received for the next 

 campaign expenditures. 



During the past two years, the Society has raised and ex- 

 pended for the protection of wild life a total of more than 



