Hunting In Many Lands 



questioned whether even their efforts would 

 have had any result had not the public inter- 

 est been aroused, and the Congressional con- 

 science pricked, by the wholesale slaughter 

 of buffalo which took place in the Park in 

 March, 1894, as elsewhere detailed by Capt. 

 Anderson and the editors. Besides this, the 

 Club has secured the passage, by the New 

 York Legislature, of an act Incorporating the 

 New York Zoological Society, and a consider- 

 able representation of the Club is found in the 

 list of its officers and managers. Other ef- 

 forts, made by Boone and Crockett members 

 In behalf of game and forest protection, have 

 been less successful, and there Is still a wide 

 field for the Club's activities. 



Public sentiment should be aroused on the 

 general question of forest preservation, and 

 especially in the matter of securing legislation 

 which will adequately protect the game and 

 the forests of the various forest reservations 

 already established. Special attention was 

 called to this point in the earlier volume pub- 

 lished by the Club, from which we quote: 



If it was worth while to establish these reservations, it is worth 

 while to protect them. A general law, providing for the adequate 

 guarding of all such national possessions, should be enacted by Con- 

 gress, and wherever it may be necessary such Federal laws should be 



