Trail and Camp-Fire 



Society was once organized, the first support 

 it secured was from the members of that club, 

 who came forward almost in a body practi- 

 cally every New York City member with 

 money and with time. 



The formation of this Society comes at a 

 time when it is still possible to secure speci- 

 mens for a great collection. It may be confi- 

 dently asserted that twenty-five years hence 

 the rinderpest and repeating rifle will have 

 destroyed most, if not all, of the larger African 

 fauna including certainly the most beautiful 

 antelopes in the world and game in India 

 and North America in a wild state will almost 

 have ceased to exist. 



The New York Zoological Society, the most 

 vigorous offspring of this club, demonstrates 

 what a mission and opportunity the Boone 

 and Crockett Club has in these closing days of 

 the century in its efforts to preserve the game 

 and the forests ; in short, to preserve to future 

 generations some remnant of the heritage 

 which was our fathers', and which, to a great 

 extent, still is ours, though so few of us have 

 learned to estimate it at its true value. 



Madison Grant. 

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