term of office. In addition to that, as you well know, 

 chiefly through the instrumentality of Dr. Hornaday, 

 there is very important game legislation pending at 

 Albany in which we are all interested; and it would seem 

 to be best that all of those who are interested in saving 

 the wild animal life of the State should concentrate 

 their efforts in securing that legislation, and in trying 

 to defeat amendments to existing game laws that have 

 been introduced, the purpose of which would be hostile 

 to the game life of the State. 



That being the situation in the State of New York, 

 a sub-committee, consisting of Dr. Palmer and myself, 

 have, since the first of February, been at work upon 

 the proposition in South Dakota, being led to this by 

 the fact that the Secretary of Agriculture, the Hon. James 

 Wilson, in November last, wrote to Dr. Hornaday, 

 President of The American Bison Society, a letter in 

 which he expressed the hope that there would be another 

 national herd of bison established, and, if possible, in 

 one of the Dakotas, which was a great range for the 

 bison when they flourished in the western country. 

 Dr. Palmer and I have taken Secretary Wilson at his 

 word. We called upon him in February in Washington 

 with other members of the United States Biological 

 Survey. Secretary Wilson said in so many words: ^'Al 

 right, go ahead, it is just the thing we want; whatever 

 The American Bison Society and the men in my depart- 

 ment and the representatives of the Dakotas want, 

 that shall be done. All j^ou have got to do is to bring 

 forward a workable plan, and we will have a herd of 

 bison established there." Following this conversation 

 with the Secretary, Dr. Palmer and I called on the two 

 senators and the two representatives from South Dakota. 

 We found them interested — three of them actively 

 interested — in having a herd established in the State. 

 They will do all they can in Congress and in their State 

 to that end, and we considered, while we were there 

 in consultation with the departments in Washington, 

 locations for the herd. (I have a map of South Dakota 

 here.) There is a territory in the Cheyenne Indian Reser- 



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