ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



1129 



Albert U. Cummins, Iowa. 



Williiim P. Dillingham, ^'el■^lllllt. 



Henry A. diiPont, Delaware. 



Jacob H. Gallinger, Xew Hainpshire. 



.\sle J. Gronna, North Dakota. 



Gilbert M. Hitehcock, Nebraska. 



Henry V. Hollis, New Hani])shire. 



William Hughes, New Jersey. 



Charles F. Johnson, Maine. 



Wesley L. Jones, Washington. 



William S. Kenyon, Iowa. 



Roliert M. La Follette, Wisconsin, 



Harry Lane, Oregon. 



.VI r. I.ee, Maryland. 



Porter J. McCumber, North Dakota. 



George P. McLean, Connecticut. 



James F. Martine, New Jersey. 



George W. Norris, Nebraska. 



George T. Oliver, Pennsylvania. 



Robert I . Owen, Oklahoma. 



Carroll S. Page, \'ermont. 



George C. Perkins, California. 



.Miles Poindexter, Washington. 



-Morris Sheppard, Texas. 



Lawrence Y. Sherman, Illinois. 



Benjamin F. Shively, Indiana. 



Marcus -V. Smith, .Vrizona. 



Reed Smoot, Utah. 



Thomas Sterling, South Dakota. 



William H. Thompson, Kansas. 



John R. Thornton, Louisiana. 



Charles E. Townsend, Michigan. 



John W. Weeks. .Massachusetts. 



John D. Works, California. 



John S. Williams, Mississipjii. 



The disgrace of nations cannot miicli longer 

 endure. 



The featlier dealers have resoluted for the 

 repeal of our law. but they can just as easily 

 lift themselves over the Eitfel Tower by their 

 own shoelaces as they can induce the Congress 

 of the United States to repeal its law against 

 feather millinery. The idea is so absurd it is 

 not even amusing. 



The proposal for an international congress 

 to protect the birds useful to agriculture is in- 

 teresting and commendable, even though con- 

 ceived in a spirit of cheap hypocrisy. There is 

 one nation, Iiowever, that will not be represent- 

 ed in that congress, unless it be to give advice 

 to the erring ones. That nation is the United 

 States of America, now the very foremost of 

 all nations in the iiractieal )irotection of its 

 birds that are beneficial to agriculture, its game 

 birds and the birds of the world at large 

 against the plume dealers at large. 



To the American people the proposed con- 

 gress will be of academic interest only, for we 

 have set our house in order. W. T. H. 



Xezc York, June 12, lOU'u 



THE PLUME DEALERS OF PARIS. 



Our European cable news has informed us 

 that an international congress of plume dealers 

 is now closing in Paris. It is stated that the 

 congress has declared that its members are very 

 solicitous about two things: the ]irotection of 

 birds and the repeal of the law of the L nited 

 States against the importation of wild birds' 

 plumage for millinery purposes. Finally (June 

 1 1 ) action was taken calling for an internation- 

 al conference for the protection of the birds 

 beneficial to agriculture. 



The feather millinery trade of Europe sees 

 the handwriting on the wall. Its state of fear 

 and panic is quite natural and understandable. 

 The conscience of the world is awakening to 

 the crime and disgrace of wild-bird slaughter 

 for greed and vanity, and the universal end 

 of the hateful traffic is fast approaching. 



Very soon the British Parliament will pass 

 the Hobhouse bill (a Government measure) by 

 a large majority, and that will be another 

 crushing blow to the featlier millinery trade of 

 the Continent. In Germany and France the 

 trade is fighting desperately against the inevit- 

 able, but the end is alreadv fixed and certain. 



A HUGE GAME SANCTUARY. 



Emperor Nicholas has now under considera- 

 tion an elaborate project drawn uj) for him by 

 .M. Kasso, the Russian Minister of Education, 

 for the creation of a huge sanctuary for game 

 on the lines of the Yellowstone Park in the 

 United States. At the instance of the Czar, 

 the Minister secured all the data available re- 

 lating to the Yellowstone Park preserve and 

 had two or three emissaries cross the Atlantic 

 for the purpose, embodying the information 

 thus obtained in a report to the monarch. 



It is proposed to devote some 900,000 acres 

 of State forests in the Province of Kuban, in 

 the Caucasus, to this object. There the ani- 

 mals will be allowed to run absolutely wild, and 

 no shooting or trapping of any kind will be 

 )iermitted. The building of towns and villages 

 there, as well as operations, will be strictly pro- 

 hibited, and all the now existing houses and 

 cottages in the district will be removed, and 

 their occupants expropriated. It is hoped by 

 this means to not only preserve, but also to mul- 

 tiply the rarer kinds of game, such as the au- 

 rochs, or European bison; the ibex, etc.. which 

 are now threatened with extinction. 



— Nete York Ki'miiif/ Su/i. 



