SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF 
BOARD OF MANAGERS 
FLE Seventh Annual Meeting of the Board of Mana- 
gers of The American Bison Society was held at 
the American Museum of Natural History, New York 
City, on Thursday, January 9, 1913, at 2 P. M., follow- 
ing the regular meeting of the Society. 
President Hooper was in the chair. Those present 
were: Dr. Hornaday and Dr. Palmer, and Messrs. 
Baynes, Edwards, and Wharton. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read 
and stood approved. 
President Hooper called Mr. Baynes to the chair. 
Dr. Hornaday, securing recognition, placed Professor 
Hooper in nomination — for President. This nomina- 
tion was seconded by the Secretary. 
Professor Hooper then nominated Dr. Hornaday 
for President, and expressed his strong desire that the 
latter would accept the position. 
In reply, Dr. Hornaday stated that Professor 
Hooper should be continued in office until the Wind 
Cave Bison Herd was an established fact, and that after 
that had been accomplished, he might be entitled to a 
rest; this project has from the first been distinctively 
his. 
It was unanimously Voted: That the Secretary 
east one ballot for Professor Hooper. This having been 
done, Professor Hooper was declared elected President 
hoi. 
For first Vice-President, Professor Henry Fair- 
field Osborn was nominated and elected, and as second 
Vice-President, Dr. John C. Phillips. 
Messrs. Williams and Wharton were re-elected 
Treasurer and Secretary respectively. 
It was left to the discretion of the Executive Com- 
mittee as to whether honorary officers should be elected. 
The Executive Committee was chosen as follows: 
Dr. Palmer, and Messrs. H. A. Edwards, E. L. Parker, 
C. H. Stonebridge and Clark Williams. 
22 
