The Boone and Crockett Club 



Beginning about the year 1880, a number of 

 citizens of New York tried, with no apparent 

 success, to arouse public interest in the establish- 

 ment of a zoological garden which should be a 

 credit to the chief city of the United States. There 

 had been much talk on the subject, and many 

 articles published, but nothing definite was done 

 until 1890, when a bill was introduced into the 

 Legislature at Albany, providing for the establish- 

 men of a zoological park on city lands located 

 north of 15 5th Street. One provision of the bill 

 authorized the New York Board of Park Com- 

 missioners to turn over to this zoological garden 

 the existing menagerie of the Central Park. This 

 clause provoked violent opposition from certain 

 city representatives, and the bill was defeated. 



At the annual meeting of the Club, held January 

 1 6, 1895, tne President, Theodore Roosevelt, 

 appointed a committee, of which Madison Grant 

 was chairman, to look after legislation in New 

 York State in the interest of game preservation. 

 One object for which this committee proposed to 

 work was to found in New York City a zoological 

 society which should conduct a zoological park on 

 new lines, based on those principles of game preser- 

 vation for which the Boone and Crockett Club 

 stands. 



