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man, is already, and for the past year has been, actively engaged 
in measures designed to save our remaining birds from annihila- 
tion. During the last twelve months, the Audubon Society has 
sent out 35,000 circulars, and solicited active assistance from over 
300 newspapers in this state. 
It seems to us that the United States Biological Survey, the 
Smithsonian Institution, the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences 
the American Museum of Natural History, the New York Zoo- 
logical Society, Yale University, Harvard University, Cornell 
University, the Field Museum and the Leland Stanford Univer- 
sity each should employ a competent man, provide him with a 
fair allowance for expenses, and instruct him to devote his entire 
time and energy to the business of securing adequate protective 
laws throughout the whole United States, and in furthering all 
legitimate measures for the protection of birds and mammals. It 
is reasonable to believe that four good men could enter the Rocky 
Mountain region, bring together the guides and ranchmen, and 
in less than two years accomplish results of great and lasting 
benefit. 
We believe that the time is ripe for a general rebellion against 
the forces of destruction. We believe that the American people 
will yet rise to the seriousness of the situation, and bring about 
a complete revolution in behalf of ‘‘ ‘he protection of our native 
animals,’’? which is one of the prime objects for which the New 
York Zoological Society was founded. 
ADDENDA.—Very soon after this report was completed and sent 
to the printer, an Interstate Wardens’ Convention was held in Chi- 
cago. It was a meeting of game wardens and special delegates 
appointed by the state legislatures of Wisconsin, Minnesota, 
Michigan, Illinois, Ohio and North Dakota. It contained sports- 
men, naturalists and law-makers. It was, we believe, the most 
important meeting ever held in this country having for its sole 
object the preservation of our mammals, birds and fishes. Never 
before, it is safe to say, was a meeting for such a purpose per- 
vaded by such earnestness and determination, and the disposition 
to urge relentless war on the existing agencies of destruction 
was plainly manifested. Strong resolutions were adopted urging 
the enactment of laws against the sale of game, the shipment 
