Working in co-operation with the National Audu- 

 bon Society and with several other organizations, the 

 officers of this association sent out circulars asking for 

 contril)utions for a Eoosevelt Memorial Bird Fountain. 

 This total fund from all sources, amounts at the present 

 time to nearly $14,000. The members of this association 

 contributed lil)erally thereto. 



A memorial resolution, prepared by Dr. Hornaday, 

 was engrossed and delivered to Mrs. Roosevelt by the 

 officers of the Society and for Avhich she made due 

 acknowledgement. This resolution will l)e printed in 

 the year book. 



The most impcu'tant matter which has come up dur- 

 ing the year has l)een the question of preserving the 

 antelope. 



In association, and with the assistance of Dr. E. W. 

 Nelson of the Biological Survey, we have sent our 

 Secretary, Mr. Garretson, who accompanied Dr. Geo.W. 

 Field of the Biological Survey, to eastern Oregon, and 

 found that practically the last remaining wild herd of 

 antelope were near extermination. The report of these 

 gentlemen Avill be i:)rinted in the year book and is now 

 in the press, and is being printed through the co-opera- 

 tion and at the expense of the Permanent AVild Life 

 Protection Fund, of which Dr. Hornaday is the Senior 

 trustee. Due credit will l)e given for this in the printed 

 report. 



I also suggest that a resolution be made covering 

 the association's activities and leadership in having 

 estal^lished in southeastern Oregon and northwestern 

 Nevada a reservation or harl)orage for the antelope and 

 sage grouse, practically sixty miles long by twenty miles 

 wide, and that your officers l)e authorized to go ahead 

 and associate in this campaign other societies and game 

 protection associations, and get all the assistance possi- 

 ble to co-o] )erate with the Governments in the establish- 

 ment of this reservation, l)oth nationally and by the 

 States of Oregon and Nevada. 



In association with American Game Protection 

 Association, the Camp-Fire Club of America and the 

 National Parks Association, your President sent a tele- 



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