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At the Annual meeting of the New York Zoological Society 

 held on January 12, 1915, the following Resolutions were of- 

 fered, and unanimously adopted: 



CONVERSION OF NATIONAL FOREST RESERVES INTO GAME 



REFUGES. 



Whereas, It appears that the killing for sport, and for food, of game birds 

 and mammals in the National Forest Reserves is destroying the wild life much 

 faster than it is breeding, and over wide areas the final disappearance of many 

 species is impending; now therefore be it 



Resolved, That the New York Zoological Society recommends that the Fed- 

 eral Government take immediate steps to convert any or all of the forest 

 reserves of the United States into game refuges, for such period and to such 

 extent as is necessary to assure the continued existence of threatened species, 

 and the continuance of the game supply of the surrounding districts. 



INTERNATIONAL TREATY FOR PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



Resolved, That the New York Zoological Society respectfully urges upon the 

 attention of the Government of the Dominion of Canada, the pressing importance, 

 as well to Canada as to the United States, of concluding at the earliest moment 

 practicable, an international treaty for the protection of all migratory birds, 

 under regulations similar to those now in force in the United States through the 

 Federal Migratory Bird Law. 



PROTECTION OF THE WALRUS. 



Resolved, That the report of the committee on Marine Mammals be accepted 

 with thanks, and that the committee be continued with full power for another 

 year; and be it further 



Resolved, That the Society continue its efforts to bring together the Russian 

 and the United States Governments in a comprehensive program of conservation; 

 and be it further 



Resolved, That as soon as political conditions permit, an international con- 

 gress of the nations whose territories march on the Polar Regions, be called to 

 consider uniform measures for the protection of wild life within the Arctic circle 

 in order that the food supply of native races be conserved, and that the unique 

 and ancient forms of arctic mammals be preserved for all time. 



