ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



1319 



found in promoting the work of zoological inves- 

 tigators who never yet have enjoyed such an op- 

 portunity for getting close to animate tropical 

 nature as this Station will afford. 



W. T. H. 



COMPLETION OF A WILD LIFE FUND. 



On November 17, the Permanent Wild Life 

 Protection Fund, to which several members of 

 the Zoological Society have liberally subscribed, 

 was completed to the minimum point of 

 $100,000, with an excess of $1,345. The task 

 of raising this very necessary endownment fund 

 has occupied the attention of the Director of 

 the Park throughout more than two years, and 

 some of the difficulties surmounted were suf- 

 ficiently great. "The times" for raising a large 

 sum of money were mostly inauspicious ; and 

 but for sincere devotion to the cause of wild 

 life protection on the part of seventy founders 

 and subscribers, success would have been im- 

 possible. 



During the four years prior to the summer 

 of 1913, the Zoological Society had expended in 

 the wild life cause about $14,000, and the 

 annual burden of it was a handicap on other 

 activities which the Society wished to promote. 

 Th gathering of annual subscriptions had gone 

 so far as to become wearisome to all concerned, 

 and the only logical remedy was an endowment 

 fund. 



While the annual income of the new Perma- 

 nent Wild Life Protection Fund is only about 

 $5,500, that sum, through the careful elimina- 

 tion of all those costly luxuries known as "over- 

 head charges," will be sufficient to render a great 

 amount of good service to the wild life cause. 

 This fund is the second largest endowment 

 fund for the protection of wild life, and all 

 those who have made sacrifices to bring it into 

 existence will find satisfaction in the thought 

 that those sacrifices will bear fruit annually 

 throughout the next 200 years. 



W. T. H. 



CHARLES FREDERICK HOLDER. 



The untimely death of Prof. Charles Fred- 

 erick Holder, at his home in Pacadena, Cali- 

 fornia, on October 10, calls upon all the friends 



of wild life in America to pause and pay tribute 

 to his memory. 



During an unusually busy life, Mr. Holder's 

 activities touched the lives of hosts of intelligent 

 people. His great array of popular books on 

 various forms of wild life entertained and in- 

 structed a mighty army of readers, young and 

 old. His leading and conspicuous part in estab- 

 lishing on fixed lines the high-grade ethics of 

 angling was a service to the fraternity of Amer- 

 ican anglers that alone entiles him to distinc- 

 tion. His part in the development of angling 

 for the "big game of the sea" opened to Amer- 

 ican anglers an entirely new world of thrilling 

 sport. 



Of Professor Holder's work as a teacher of 

 the natural sciences in the Throop College of 

 Technology, at Pasadena, the educational world 

 well knows. Since his death a Holder Chair 

 of Zoology has been endowed at Throop with a 

 fund of $50,000 as a permanent memorial of 

 him. 



During the last four years of Professor Hold- 

 er's life his most important work was in the 

 defense of the wild life of California. He made 

 a gallant and partly successful fight for the 

 adequate conservation of the food fishes of the 

 California coast. In 1912, when the wild game 

 of California was in peril from the attacks of 

 market gunners and game-dealers, Mr. Holder 

 organized the Wild Life Protective League of 

 California, became its president, and through- 

 out three long years of bitter warfare he made 

 a fierce fight for the wild life of California. In 

 all his campaigns he was successful ! Even in 

 1914, when northern California went to the bad, 

 the majority vote of southern California in sup- 

 port of the Flint-Carey law against the sale of 

 game was over 57,000 votes ! That splendid re- 

 sult was due chiefly to the leadership and the 

 arduous campaign labors of Charles F. Holder. 



In the campaign begun last September by the 

 Zoological Society and the Permanent Wild Life 

 Protection Fund, for national game sanctuaries. 

 Professor Holder had prepared to take an active 

 part; but Fate willed otherwise. He lived only 

 long enough to be told of the success of the 

 effort in southern California, and to hear the 

 story of the tributes paid to him and his work 

 from the campaign platform in Pasadena. 



The Wild Life of America, the anglers of 

 America, and the friends of wild life all have 

 lost a good friend. May the records of his 

 work and his achievements be a lasting example 

 to his compatriots. 



W. T. H. 



