REPORT OF THE SECRETARY.* 



SINCE the last annual meeting of the Society, the Sec- 

 retary has delivered one hundred and thirteen lectures, 

 chiefly in New England, New York and the middle West, 

 calling attention to the work of the American Bison 

 Society, and appealing for subscriptions to the Montana 

 National Bison Fund. Two of these lectures were de- 

 livered at Dartmouth College, where the students now 

 have under consideration two suggestions, — the adoption 

 of the buff'alo as the college totem, and the presentation to 

 the UnJted States government of a herd of buffaloes to be 

 preserved on some national range. Both suggestions 

 have met with the approval of President Tucker and of 

 every member of the Faculty with whom the matter was 

 discussed. 



Early in September, in obedience to instructions re- 

 ceived at the last annual meeting of the Society, the Sec- 

 retary left New Hampshire for the far West to visit the 

 principal buffalo herds, with a view to learning their size 

 and condition, and to get such other information concern- 

 ing them as might be of interest or value to this Society. 

 The Secretary was specially anxious to see the Pablo Herd 

 on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, recently 

 bought by the Canadian Government, and to witness its 

 round-up for shipment to Canada. This event promised 

 to be the last of its kind in this country, and the Secretary 

 greatly desired to be present to obtain first-hand informa- 

 tion and photographs which would be invaluable in creat- 

 ing interest from the lecture platform. Acting on the best 

 information obtainable, the Secretary started for the Flat- 

 head Reservation, where the round-up w^as to take place 

 between the first and the tenth of September. On reach- 

 ing Missoula it was learned that there was no chance of 

 the round-up coming off for several days, so a visit to the 

 Government Buffalo herd in Yellowstone Park was made 

 in the meantime. 



*A11 the photographs ilhistrating this article were made by Ernest Harold 

 Baynes, Secretary. 



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