The Boone and Crockett Club 



York Zoological Society also took over from the 

 city the New York Aquarium, and has since 

 managed it. It has brought order out of chaos, 

 has vastly improved the methods of exhibiting 

 the collections, and more than doubled their size, 

 besides so reorganizing the plant that they are 

 kept in good health and do not require to be 

 constantly renewed. The popularity of these two 

 institutions is shown by the fact that during the 

 year 1909 more than five and one-half millions of 

 people visited the New York Zoological Park and 

 the New York Aquarium. 



Up to the present time the work of the Zoolog- 

 ical Society has been chiefly in the direction of 

 organization. It has established a park; it has 

 provided collections; it has furnished buildings in 

 which to house these collections. The time is 

 coming nay is even now at hand when research 

 work of a high order will be carried on under its 

 auspices. Such work has already been begun, as is 

 shown by various papers published by the directors 

 of the two institutions and by the curators of their 

 various departments. 



In all this work the Boone and Crockett Club 

 has had a chief part. All the chief officers of the 

 Zoological Society and a number of the Board of 

 Managers are members of the Club, as are also 



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