Preface 



Mr. Harrison's narrative dealing with the great 

 game of Rhodesia, and that of General Roger D. 

 Williams, about the introduced deer in Cuba, bring 

 up forms of sport to most of us unknown. 



It has been thought well to reprint here the 

 "Brief History of the Boone and Crockett Club," 

 prepared some time ago, and issued separately. 



Madison Grant's article on the wild life of 

 Alaska, written some years ago, has been brought 

 down to date. 



The Club has consistently striven and with 

 some success to secure the establishment of game 

 refuges in the different forest reserves. There is 

 great promise in the State of Arizona, where, 

 through the efforts of Charles Sheldon and E. W. 

 Nelson, much popular interest in this subject has 

 been awakened. 



A matter in which the Club may feel a just pride 

 is the share it had in assisting in the passage of the 

 bill to place migratory birds under the charge of 

 the Federal Government a measure which orig- 

 inated with one of its own members, Hon. George 

 Shiras, 3d, and which became law in March, 1913. 



GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL. 



NEW YORK, July, 1913. 



