The Origin of the New York 

 Zoological Society 



In the autumn of 1894 I entered into a cor- 

 respondence with Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, 

 the President of the Boone and Crockett Club, 

 with reference to securing, during the coming 

 session of the Assembly, certain legislation 

 in the interest of game protection. It was 

 finally decided that the subject should be laid 

 before the Club for its sanction ; and this was 

 done at the annual meeting of the Boone and 

 Crockett Club of January 16, 1895, when the 

 matter was entrusted to a committee of which 

 I was chairman. 



One of the chief objects of this committee 

 was to secure for New York City, which was 

 then entering into a new era of expansion 

 under a reform administration, a zoological 

 park on lines entirely divergent from the Old 

 World zoological gardens, and which would 

 tend to introduce those principles of game 

 preservation advocated by the Boone and 

 Crockett Club. 



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