REPORT OF NOMINATING COMMITTEE 



The Nominating Committee respectfully reports that 

 it has given careful consideration to the general situa- 

 tion in relation to nominations and the various classes 

 of membership of the club, and that it has deemed it 

 desirable in connection with making the regular nomi- 

 nations for executive officers to make certain further 

 recommendations to the club concerning Honorary 

 Membership. It is aware that Honorary members are 

 elected by the Executive Committee and not by the 

 club at large; but is nevertheless of opinion that the 

 Executive Committee would prefer to learn the views 

 of the club before taking action along the line which 

 it desires to suggest. It therefore takes this method 

 of obtaining such an expression of view. It calls to 

 the club's attention that there have been four Honor- 

 ary members, all now deceased: Judge Caton, Mr. 

 Parkman and Generals Sheridan and Sherman. Mean- 

 while conditions here in the United States in relation 

 to the shooting of large game have materially altered 

 during the past fifteen to twenty years and will change 

 in the future even more rapidly. Sportsmen must 

 necessarily go further afield, and large game shoot- 

 ing as also the protection of large game, is year by 

 year assuming more and more of an international 

 aspect. Under these circumstances the committee 



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