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READY TO COMMENCE THE CRATING 
and adjacent lands in part already belonging to the 
National Government, and in part acquired by pur- 
chase, anew National Game Preserve. Portions of this 
preserve have already been fenced to receive the nu- 
cleus herd of bison. 
On November 5, 1913, the Bureau of Biological 
Survey of the United States Department of Agricul- 
ture through Dr. T. S. Palmer notified this Society and 
the New York Zoological Society that the Preserve 
would be ready to receive from this Society within ten 
days the nucleus herd of buffalo which the Society had 
agreed with the National Government to furnish. 
The New York Zoological Society, which in April, 
1912, offered to present to this Society ten buffaloes 
towards the nucleus herd, anticipatine the fencing of 
the new Preserve in South Dakota, caused to be built 
erates in which to ship the buffalo, one in a crate. The 
erates and the buffaloes were ready for shipment even 
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