Preface 



proclamation. This action was directly in the 

 line of recommendations urged in the Boone 

 and Crockett Club books, and two members of 

 the club were appointed by the National 

 Academy of Sciences as members of this com- 

 mittee. 



More local, but still of the highest import- 

 ance, is the successful setting on foot of the 

 New York Zoological Society, the incorpora- 

 tion of which was mentioned in the club's pre- 

 vious volume. The history of the Society in 

 some detail will be found in the following 

 pages. The Boone and Crockett Club is 

 largely represented on the board of manage- 

 ment of the Zoological Society, and much of 

 the Society's success is due to the unselfish 

 energy of these members. 



The abolition in the Adirondacks, for a 

 period of five years, of the unsportsmanlike 

 practices of driving deer to the water by 

 hounds and of jack-lighting is to be credited 

 largely to the efforts of the Boone and Crock- 

 ett Club. The chairman of its game law 

 committee spent much time in Albany work- 

 ing with the New York Legislature to bring 

 about the passage of this bill, and a member 

 of the club, who was also a member of the 



