regard to the three pure-blood bison, I regret to say I am unal)le to 

 send them to the Society. So much time has elapsed and they were 

 getting to be a good deal of care so I had them all killed. 



Yours truly, 



JAS. J. HILL. 



Mr. James J. Hill, New York, Oct. 14, 1910. 



Great Northern Railway, 



St. Paul ,^ Minn. 



Dear Sir: I am very sorry to learn from your letter of Septem- 

 ber 2, that the three full-blood bison, which you presented to The 

 American Bison Society, have been killed — and by your consent. We 

 announced your gift quite prominently to the members of the Bison 

 Society, and to the country at large, and on the strength of it you 

 were elected a Patron, as having presented specimens worth more than 

 $1,000. While the loss of the bull is not so very great, l^ecause there 

 are plenty of breeding bulls in the Montana National Herd, it is a 

 great pity that any female buffaloes should be slaughtered. 



Any delay that may have ensued in the delivery of your gift 

 to the Bison Society surely is not chargeable to me, or to the Society. 

 As you will see by the enclosed letter, I wrote you on Oct. 18, 1909, 

 informing you that the Montana National Bison Range was all ready, 

 that a game warden was on the spot in charge of it, and requesting 

 you to "kindly have the animals crated and forwarded as soon as 

 convenient." I also said that "I think it would be well if the delivery 

 of the bison could be hastened as much as possible." Lender the 

 circumstances, I do not see what more we could have done to secure 

 the gift, than was done. 



Yours very truly, 



W. T. HORNADAY. 



United States Department of Agriculture, 



Bureau of Biological Survey, 



Dixon, Mont., Nov. 21, 1910. 

 Dr. W. T. Hornaday, 



New York City, N. Y. 

 Dear Sir: I received three buffalo in good condition on the 

 18th inst. from the Blue Mountain Forest Association. The express 

 had not been paid, but I assured the agent that the matter would be 

 settled in a short time, and he turned them over to me, and I turned 

 them loose on the range the same day that they arrived. I received 

 your wire, but as the agent informed me that he had sent a personal 

 message, I did not think it necessary to answer your message. 

 Sex, two females and one male. 

 ^"ery truly yours, 



ANDREW R. HODGES, 



Warden National Bison Range. 



