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Trail and Camp-Firc 



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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