PRESIDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT 
To the Members of the American Bison Society. 
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: 
I have the honor and pleasure of welcoming mem- 
bers of the Society to this your seventh annual meeting. 
The progress of the work of the Society has contin- 
ued with increased interest and devotion on the part of 
its members, committees and governing boards. The 
income of the Society is encouraging, and the gifts to 
it have been greater than in any preceding year, save 
that when the Montana herd was established. A new 
National Game Preserve has been created,and a nucleus 
herd of buffaloes has been installed therein. The total 
number of pure-blooded buffaloes has been increased 
both in the United States and Canada. The demand 
for buffaloes for the establishment of municipal herds 
is greater than at any past time, and the whole country 
has become interested in this, the noblest of our native 
quadrupeds, and has developed a strong desire that the 
species be cultivated in such numbers that its continu- 
ance is certain, and its picturesque figure is familiar to 
all lovers of animal life, voung and old alike. 
While there is no danger that we in this western 
world will return to the superstitious worship of ani- 
mal life, there has been danger during the past fifty 
years lest we lose our respect and love for the animal 
life of the field and forest, and that, blind to the great 
lessons of nature, we may so lose ourselves in the arti- 
ficial maze and swirl of city life as to have no longer 
stars to guide our course, the sturdy oak and the tall 
tapering pine to give to us strength and aspiration, the 
flowers of the field to teach us beauty and humility, and 
the birds of the air and the animals of the forest, com- 
panions of men for countless ages, to indicate to us 
how by diligence has come to pass the rising scale of 
life up to man. 
This Society is one of the many active agencies 
that is bringing men back to nature, to find in her 
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