The Boone and Crockett Club 



have given consideration to the position taken by the 

 Shikar Club and to the objects of that club as set 

 forth in its annual. The committee calls the attention 

 of the Boone and Crockett Club to the following ex- 

 pression of those objects; that is, the recital by the 

 Shikar Club of its cordial sympathy with the objects 

 of its sister society known as "The Fauna" with which 

 it has many members in common, to wit: the preser- 

 vation of wild species within the British Empire and 

 the bringing home, as they say, to their rulers of their 

 responsibility in the matter. 



The Shikar Club continuing, recites among its ob- 

 jects: the development of the social side of sport; the 

 bringing together of camp-fire friends, the old-time 

 hunter and the young aspirant; the maintaining of a 

 standard of sportsmanship; the inculcating of a love 

 of forest, mountain and desert, and of the knowledge 

 of the habits of animals ; the encouraging of the stren- 

 uous pursuit of a wary and dangerous quarry; the 

 development of the instinct of a well-devised approach 

 and of the patient retrieving of wounded animals. 

 These points, as we all know, have occupied more and 

 more of the attention of this club also. All these ob- 

 jects are similar to those of the Boone and Crockett 

 Club. Indeed, it is not too much to say that this 

 club served as a model for the Shikar Club. In one 

 matter, however, the Shikar Club has recognized an 

 opportunity which this club has neglected ; that is, in 

 electing to Honorary Membership distinguished for- 

 eign sportsmen. Among them three of our own mem- 

 bership figure our Secretary, Mr. Grant, our Asso- 



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