The Boone and Crockett Club. 



man Drayton, D. G. Elliott, George Bird Grinnell, 

 Arnold Hague, James E. Jones, Clarence King, 

 Wm. H. Merrill, Jr., Thomas Paton, John J. 

 Pierrepont, W. Hallett Phillips, E. P. Rogers, 

 Elliott Roosevelt, J. E. Roosevelt, J. W. Roose- 

 velt, Rutherford Stuyvesant, W. A. Wads worth, 

 Bronson Rumsey, Lawrence Rumsey and W. D. 

 Pickett. 



As time went on, these men added to their 

 numbers others interested in the same objects, so 

 that now, for many years, the Boone and Crockett 

 Club has had one hundred regular members its 

 limit and from twenty-five to forty associate 

 members. Among the latter are a number of men 

 who have performed notable services in behalf of 

 the objects to which the Club is devoted. 

 These objects were announced as being: 

 (i) To promote manly sport with the rifle. 

 (2) To promote travel and exploration in the 

 wild and unknown, or but partially known, portions 

 of the country. (3) To work for the preservation 

 of the large game of this country, and so far as 

 possible to further legislation for that purpose, 

 and to assist in enforcing the existing laws. 

 (4) To promote inquiry into and to record obser- 

 vations on the habits and natural history of the 

 various wild animals. ( 5 ) To bring about among 



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