The Boone and Crockett Club 



W. W. Niles, Jr., was then a member of the 

 Assembly, representing a district above the Harlem 

 River, where it seemed probable that the proposed 

 park would be located. The committee took the 

 old bill to Mr. Niles, who agreed to push it on 

 condition that the Boone and Crockett Club would 

 organize the society, and that some of its members 

 should appear as incorporators. The bill was 

 amended in accordance with his suggestions, and 

 Madison Grant and C. - Grant La Farge were 

 included among the incorporators. The bill, 

 modified so as to do away with most of the oppo- 

 sition, passed the Assembly, and the New York 

 Zoological Society was organized May 7, 1895. 

 On its first board of directors were nine members 

 of the Boone and Crockett Club, including two 

 vice-presidents and both the secretaries. 



The work of the Society began at once. After 

 a year of investigation, the southern end of Bronx 

 Park was chosen for the location of the Zoological 

 Park, and in March, 1897, this area of two hun- 

 dred and sixty-one acres was granted by the city 

 to the New York Zoological Society. Within a 

 year and a half the work of organizing and 

 improving the Park had so far advanced that it 

 was opened to the public. Its decennial celebration 

 was held in 1909. In the year 1902 the New 



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