THE FIRST ANNUAL DINNER OF THE 
AMERICAN BISON SOCIETY 
J N pursuance of the action taken at the Annual Meet- 
ing of the Society held in January, the first Annual 
Dinner given by the Society was arranged by a Special 
Committee, of which Mr. C. H. Stonebridge, a member 
of the Board of Managers, was chairman. The dinner 
was held at Delmonico’s on Friday evening, February 
23, at 7 o’clock. The President of the Society presided 
and acted as toastmaster. Dr. Wiliam T. Hornaday, 
Ex-President of the Society and Honorary Member, 
spoke for twenty minutes on “The Past and Present 
of the American Bison,” illustrating his address with 
many lantern photographs. Colonel Charles J. Jones 
(Buffalo Jones) spoke for twenty-five minutes on ‘‘The 
Saving of the Buffalo,” in which he described his capture 
in 1885 of fifty-eight out of the eighty-two buffalo calves, 
which were the progenitors of all the buffalo herds now 
existing in this country and abroad. Colonel Jones 
used both lantern photographs and moving pictures to 
illustrate his story. The Hon. J. D. Hand, of New 
Mexico, gave a very graphic description of the capture 
of two wolves which had been enemies of the sheep 
raisers in New Mexico. Mr. Stephen N. Leek of Jackson, 
Wvyo., spoke for thirty minutes of the elk herds of 
Wyoming, and illustrated his description by lantern 
slides and moving pictures of very great interest. 
The President presented, on behalf of the Society, 
a certificate of honorary membership in the Society to 
Col. Charles J. Jones, because of the eminent services 
rendered by him in the preservation of the buffalo. 
The certificate was very beautifully prepared and con- 
tained two sketches—one of Colonel Jones in the act 
of capturing a buffalo calf in 1885, the other picture 
representing a herd of buffalo grazing peacefully. 
There were representatives of the Society present 
from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Penn- 
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