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(6) The idea of game refuges sanctuaries 

 within which neither birds nor mammals should be 

 pursued or injured originated with the Club, and 

 was first brought up at a meeting of the Executive 

 Committee, held at the residence of Dr. Lewis 

 Rutherford Morris, While this idea was more 

 quickly taken up by the general public than most 

 game protective suggestions, and while it has been 

 adopted by a number of States, it has not yet been 

 practicable to secure from Congress legislation 

 looking to the establishment of such reservations 

 on Federal lands, except in the case of the National 

 parks, two buffalo reservations and some bird 

 islands. On the other hand, certain States as 

 Massachusetts, Connecticut, Minnesota and some 

 others have been quick to grasp the suggestion 

 and have established such refuges. One of those 

 in Massachusetts may perhaps save from extinc- 

 tion the heath hen, the eastern form of the 

 pinnated grouse, which but a few years since 

 promised soon to be numbered with America's 

 extinct birds. 



Suggestions pointing to the establishment of 

 game refuges had been made earlier, but not in 

 such definite and concrete shape as to be compre- 

 hended by the public. In 1876, in a periodical 

 known as the Penn Monthly, Dr. J. A. Allen, a 



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