November 26, 1910. 

 The Blue Mountain Forest Association, 

 Mr. Austin Corbin, President, 



Corbin Banking Companj^ 



No. 192 Broadway, New York City. 

 Gentlemen: I am just in receipt of a letter from Mr. Andrew R. 

 Hodges, Warden of the Montana National Bison Range, advising 

 me that the three buffalo which you presented to the Bison Society 

 for the Government herd arrived at Ravalli in good condition on 

 the 18th of November. They were delivered to Mr. Hodges, and 

 turned loose on the range the same day that they arrived. We have 

 forwarded the money for the freight charges to the agent at Ravalli. 

 With the eleven calves born this year, your gift brings the total 

 of the Montana herd up to fifty-one head, a very gratifying con- 

 summation. 



Once more I desire to thank you in the name of The American 

 Bison Society for your generous gift, and also for the splendid 

 promptness with which you despatched it, when the best time arrived 

 for its forwarding. We have not been so fortunate with some of the 

 other gifts that were promised us. 



Yours very truly, 



W. T. HORNADAY. 



The Blue Mountain Forest Association, 



192 Broadway, and U John Street, 



New York, Dec. 2, 1910. 

 Wm. T. Hornaday, Esq., 



Bronx Park, City. 

 Dear Mr. Hornaday: In acknowledging receipt of your favor of 

 the 26th, stating that the three bison that we presented to the Society 

 have arrived at Ravalli in good condition, I wish to express my 

 appreciation of your kind letter of thanks, and to assure you that 

 it has been a great pleasure to us to be able to do anything towards 

 helping the conservation of the buffalo, and especially of having the 

 privilege of co-operating with you, to whom the whole country owes 

 so much for your energetic and patriotic efforts in this direction. 



Yours very truly, 



AUSTIN CORBIN, 



President. 



Thus far the bison gifts of Mr. Dooly and Mr. 

 PhiUp have not been shipped, and of course it is now too 

 late to secure their delivery before the spring of 1911. 

 The shipment of Mr. Dooly's gift has been complicated 

 and rendered difficult by the fact that the animals are on 

 Antelope Island, and the water of the Great Salt Lake 

 has risen several feet higher than it was during the visit 



