and other copies are included in the Annual Report as 
authorized by the Board of Managers. 
The first annual dinner was successfully held at 
Delmonico’s on February 23, a report of which will 
be made by the special dinner committee. This com- 
mittee sought to have the Second Annual Dinner given 
this evening but it was found to be impracticable. 
I take this occasion to recommend that the Society 
seek the establishment of additional herds, so far as 
practicable, on National land in the western States and 
on State lands in eastern States, particularly in the 
State of New York. 
In closing this, my second brief Annual Report, 
I take the occasion to thank all the members and friends 
of the Society who have co-operated in its work, and 
particularly those members of the Board of Managers 
and of standing and special committees who have given 
a large amount of time to the Society’s interests and 
purposes, for the important services rendered, and to 
express the conviction that valuable as has been the 
work of the Society in the past it has even more valu- 
able work awaiting it. 
FRANKLIN W. HOOPER, 
President. 
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