SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING 



The Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the American Bison 

 Society was held at the office of Leonard D. Baldwin, 27 Pine 

 Street, New York City, on Tuesday, January 9, 1923, President 

 Edmund Seymour presiding. 



The Minutes of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting were read 

 and approved. 



The President delivered his Annual Report, which is 

 printed in full elsewhere. 



The Treasurer reported a balance on hand for January 

 1st of $346.68. An auditing committee appointed by the chair 

 reported tiie Treasurer's account correct. 



A nominating committee presented the following names 

 for the Board of Managers for the year, class of 1925. Ernest 

 Harold B-tynes, Edmund Seymour, George D. Pratt, Dr. W. 

 T. Hornaday, Arthur H. Hagemeyer, Dr. T. S. Palmer, Carl K. 

 MacFadden, J. B. Harkin and Chase S. Osborn. 



The Secretary reported that during the past year he had 

 taken a census of all living Prong Horn antelope throughout 

 the United States and Canada, and that the taking of this census 

 had been a difficult task, owing to the fact that the antelope were 

 widely scattered in remote sections of 14 states. However, the 

 figures, printed in full elsewhere, are believed to be approxi- 

 mately correct. The Bison census is about completed, which 

 shows an increase in both animals and herd owners. A com- 

 parison with the figures of the census taken by Dr. William 

 T. Hornaday in 1903 and printed in the First Annual Report 

 of the Bison Society shows that at that time there was but twenty- 

 four States in which the buff^alo were found, the number of herd 

 owners forty-one, with a total number of 969 animals. Twenty 

 years later, today in 1923, according to the last census, there are 

 now forty states in which there are 147 herds, with a total of 

 3,654 buff"alo, only eight states in the Union without buffalo, 

 viz., Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Virginia, 

 West Virginia, South Carolina and Florida. 



Discussion on the care and protection of the Grand Canyon 

 herd ot buffalo revealed the fact that it rested entirely upon the 



