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PUBLICATIONS. 



During the year the Annual Report and three Bulletins have 

 been published and sent to all the members of this Society, 

 together with a special August edition of the Bulletin, which was 

 issued for the visit of the Seventh International Zoological 

 Congress to New York. This issue of the Bulletin took the 

 place of the regular October number. A pamphlet on the Na- 

 tional Collection of Heads and Horns was also prepared and 

 sent out to all members during the year. A new Guide Book 

 has been prepared and has been sent to all members. 



GAME PROTECTION. 



The establishment of the Wichita herd of Bison has been the 

 most dramatic event in the year in the direction of game protec- 

 tion. During the summer the Secretary of the Society visited 

 Alaska and traversed the entire interior of the country, giving 

 special attention to the conditions of game. Mr. Grant's notes 

 on this subject and on the animal life in Alaska are published in 

 this annual report. 



During the first four months of 1907, Mr. G. O. Shields was 

 employed as the Society's Special Agent for Game Protection. 

 During that period Mr. Shields worked diligently with the legis- 

 latures of thirty-five States, which then were in session, to secure 

 certain amendments to their game laws which were deemed nec- 

 essary, and also to secure the passage of certain new laws. Mr. 

 Shield's campaign to prevent the use of the automatic gun was 

 continued, and it was chiefly through his efforts that the Penn- 

 sylvania Legislature finally enacted a law prohibiting the use 

 of that weapon. The same bill was introduced in the legislatures 

 of several other States ; but the opposition to its passage was so 

 strong, and so well organized, that success was attained in Penn- 

 sylvania only. Mr. Shields inaugurated a movement for the 

 protection of the grav squirrel for five years, and succeeded in 

 securing the passage of bills to that end in the legislatures of 

 New York. New Hampshire, Indiana and Nebraska. LTnfor- 

 tunately, the bill which ])asscd the Legislature of the State of 

 New York was vetoed by Ciovernor Plughes : but in the other 

 States mentioned, the legislative action became a law. 



The vSociety's agent contributed materially to the enactment, 

 by the Connecticut Legislature, of a law prohibiting the spring 

 shooting of migratory wild fowl. 



