FOURTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING 



The Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the American 

 Bison Society was held at the office of Clark Williams, 

 37 Liberty Street, New York City on Thursday, Janu- 

 ary 8, 1920. President Ednnnid Seymour presiding. 



The Minutes of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting 

 were read and apx^roved. The Treasurer's report 

 showed a balance on hand of $1,122.98 with no debts 

 outstanding. An Auditing Committee appointed l^y the 

 chair reported the Treasurer's account correct. 



President Seymour read his Annual Report, which 

 is printed in full elsewhere. 



A Nominating Committee presented the following 

 names for the Board of Managers : A. Barton Llepburn, 

 Ernest Harold Baynes, Edmund Seymour, George D. 

 Pratt, Dr. William T. Hornadav, Arthur H. Hage- 

 meyer, Dr. T. S. Palmer, Carl K.'McFadden and J. B. 

 Harkin for the class of 1922, and L. D. Baldwin to fill 

 the vacancy caused by the death of Col. C. J. Jones, 

 "Buffalo Jones." 



On request of President Seymour, Dr. Geo. AV. 

 Field of the L^. S. Biological Survey, read his official 

 report on his recent investigations of a proposed 

 antelope and sage grouse reserve in Southeastern 

 Oregon and Northwestern Nevada. This interesting 

 report showed very clearly the necessit}" for immediate 

 Federal protection of the antelope and sage grouse. 



The following resolution was made l)y Dr. Horna- 

 day and unanimously cari'ied. 



TiCsoh-ed. Tliat the thanks of the American Bison Society be 

 extended to Dr. Greo. W. Field for his agreeable and valuable co-opera- 

 tion with the Society's representative in the investigation of the 

 status of the antelope and sage grouse in Oiegon and Xevada, and 

 the possibilities for making a preserve for the ijreservation of those 

 species. 



Upon motion, it was Voted that the reports of 

 Secretary Gai'retson and Dr. Field, on their investi- 



