SPECIAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF 

 MANAGERS 



(TJ MEETING of the Board of Managers of The 

 >^ American Bison Society was held at the office 

 of Edmund Seymour & Company, 45 Wall Street, New 

 York, on March 31, 1911, at which the following were 

 present: Dr. F. W. Hooper, in the Chair, Clark Williams, 

 Dr. T. S. Palmer, C. H. Stonebridge, Ernest H. Baynes, 

 Geo. D. Pratt, Edmund Seymour, W. P. Wharton, 

 Secretary. 



Mr. Clark Williams, the Treasurer, stated that there 

 is a balance of $2,076.03 in the treasury, as follows: 



General Fund $1,643.43 



Bison Fund 432.60 



Grand Balance $2,076.03 



Mr. Williams stated that he had received $99.99 from 

 Dr. Hornaday, which should be added to the above, 

 being amount recovered from American Express Com- 

 pany rebate on express charges for sending bison from 

 New Hampshire to Montana range. The Treasurer 

 requested that the statement be spread in full upon the 

 minutes of the meeting. 



The Chairman then stated that the objects of the 

 meeting were as follows: 



At the meeting of the Board of Managers held in 

 January, it was voted that the Executive Committee be 

 authorized to take steps to establish a herd of bison 

 in South Dakota, and also to take steps to secure the 

 establishment of a herd in the State of New York. With 

 regard to the State of New York, the correspondence 

 indicates that it is not going to be practicable during 

 the coming year to make any headway in this direction. 

 The present Commissioner of Game Preservation, etc., 

 has not yet become acquainted with the game questions — 

 the questions which he will have to consider during his 



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