''Dr. Hornaday, on behalf of the Society, I have 

 the very great pleasure and the honor of presenting to 

 you this certificate of Honorary Membership in the 

 Society, because of that heroic and splendid service which 

 you have rendered during the past few years to this 

 Society and the cause for which the Society is main- 

 tained. The service has been unequaled in the history 

 of any similar society in our country. No one else could 

 have done the work which you have done; and in tender- 

 ing to you this certificate for these reasons I want to 

 say, in addition, that we all of us feel bound to you as 

 with bonds of steel. We love you, we respect you, we 

 honor you, and this certificate goes to you from our hearts 

 as well as from our consciousness of the service which 

 you have rendered." 



Dr. Hornaday replied as follows: 



"Mr. President and Gentlemen: This is something 

 that is sufficient to touch the heart of a graven image. 

 Such tokens come only from the hearts of men who feel 

 what they are doing. Without previous knowledge of 

 the event, it would be impossible for me to express to 

 you the half of what I feel in this connection. It is a 

 source of the utmost pleasure to believe from your assur- 

 ances that I have been partly instrumental in carrying 

 on one phase of the Bison Society's work, and rendering 

 some service to the Society and to the cause to which 

 it is devoted. I feel that my own part in the matter, 

 as evinced by this token, has been over-estimated. I 

 have been only a cog in the wheel. 



'The success of the Society so far has been due 

 wholly to the Society, and not to any one man. Neither 

 in the founding of buffalo herds, nor in any other of the 

 great enterprises connected with the salvation of our 

 wild life can it be said that 'one swallow makes a sum- 

 mer.' It takes a great many good men and good women 

 working together to accomplish any great purpose in 

 the saving of our wild life. In union there is strength. 

 It is union that counts. It is the solidarity that achieves 

 the results; and the reason why the Montana bison herd 

 was founded is found in the fact that a splendid organi- 



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