Head -Measurements of the Trophies at the 



Madison Square Garden Sportsmen's 



Exhibition 



During the week beginning May 14, 1895, there 

 was held in Madison Square Garden, New York, a 

 Sportsmen's Exhibition. There was a fair exhibit of 

 heads, horns and skins, for which the credit largely 

 belongs to Frederick S. Webster, the taxidermist. 



At the request of the managers of the Exhibition, 

 three of the members of the Boone and Crockett Club — 

 Messrs. Theodore Roosevelt, George Bird Grinnell and 

 Archibald Rogers — were appointed a Committee on Meas- 

 urements. There were heads and skins of every kind of 

 North American big game. Many of them were ex- 

 hibited by amateur sportsmen, including various mem- 

 bers of the Boone and Crockett Club, while many others 

 were exhibited by furriers and taxidermists. 



Some of the measurements are worth recording. For 

 convenience we tabulate, in the case of each animal, the 

 measurements of the specimens exhibited by amateur 

 sportsmen w'^o themselves shot the animals. For pur- 

 poses of comparison we add the measurements of a few 

 big heads exhibited by taxidermists or furriers ; also for 

 purposes of comparison we quote the figures given in 



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