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with Major W. Austin Wadsworth, president of the Club. Dr. 

 Morris then wrote me, " The club took much interest in the matter 

 . . . . which you set forth in your letter, and in favor of which 

 Mr. Roosevelt spoke very strongly at the meeting." The commit- 

 tee then requested that the plan be presented to the Club at its 

 annual meeting on February 8, 191 7. The general plan presented 

 to the Boone and Crockett Club at this meeting, except for certain 

 financial estimates and other business items, is republished just fol- 

 lowing this article (pp. 35-41), under the title " Suggestions for 

 Research on North American Big Game and Fur-Bearing Animals." 

 In response to a letter sent to Colonel Roosevelt with a request for 

 suggestions, came this reply, dated January 18, 191 7, which was quite 

 characteristic: "I would not know what plan to suggest to you. 

 Morris and Wadsworth are both big fellows, to whom you can 



talk in a big way, and put the case frankly before them 



It was a real pleasure to bring the matter before the Club and get 

 Dr. Morris to take it up." This statement expresses very clearly 

 that he believed the plans should be developed in a " big way." We 

 have in these words Roosevelt's approval of the general project now 

 being carried on. No other program would prove a more worthy 

 Memorial of the man. 



The Boone and Crockett Club, on April 25, 1917, passed the fol- 

 lowing resolution : 



" Whereas, Professor Charles C. Adams, of The New York State 

 College of Forestry at Syracuse University, has brought to the 

 notice of the Executive Committee of the Boone and Crockett Club 

 a plan for the scientific study of the life-habits of the fur-bear- 

 ing and large mammals of North America, 



" Resolved, That this committee heartily approves this plan, and 

 believes the results of such an investigation would be of vast scien- 

 tific interest and probably of great economic value." 

 (Signed) Kermit Roosevelt, 



Secretary of the Boone and Crockett Club. 

 Lewis R. Morris. 



Chairman of the Special Committee. 



With the entrance of the United States into the World War on 

 April 6, 191 7, it was decided to reserve this plan of research for 

 development at a more favorable time. The armistice was signed 

 November 11, 1918, and Roosevelt died soon after, on January 6. 

 1919. These plans for research had, throughout, the hearty support 



