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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



GAME SLAUGHTER IX TEXAS: WITH AUTOMATIC AND l'UMP GUNS, AS USUAL! 



In September, 1912, the Zoological Society 

 began the greatest educational campaign that it 

 ever had prosecuted up to that time. With 

 the aid of Mr. T. Gilbert Pearson, of the Na- 

 tional Association of Audubon Societies, Mr. 

 William S. Haskell of the American Game Pro- 

 tective Association, Commissioner John M. 

 Phillips and Dr. Joseph Kalbfus of the Penn- 

 sylvania State Game Commission, and Dr. 

 George W. Field and Mr. William P. Wharton 

 of Massachusetts, a demand for the Federal 

 protection of the useful migratory birds was 

 strongly presented at Indianapolis, before the 

 Fourth National Conservation Congress, Oc- 

 tober 1 to 4. The illustrated report of Dr. Horn- 

 aday's Committee on Wild Life Protection of 

 that Congress was published by the Zoological 

 Society, and forwarded to 1,850 newspapers, 

 with an appeal for help. Every agricultural 

 paper and every State Grange was called upon 

 by letter, for practical assistance. Many ar- 

 ticles were written for publication, and illus- 

 trations were sent broadcast. 



The result of that campaign was very grati- 

 fying. Over 1,100 newspajoers and twenty-four 

 magazines and reviews published our articles 

 or articles of their own, and these appeals 

 caused thousands of letters to be written to 

 members of Congress, asking for the passage 



of the McLean- Weeks bill. The State Granges 

 took up the matter, and passed it on down to 

 their branches, with excellent results. At the 

 same time, there was a general outpouring of 

 interest and support from organizations all over 

 the United States. 



Shortly before Senator George P. McLean's 

 now famous bill was voted upon in the United 

 States Senate, the Zoological Society placed in 

 the hands of every member of Congress a copy 

 of "Our Vanishing Wild Life." In speaking 

 of its effect in the Senate on the passage of 

 the McLean bill, a Senator wrote to the So- 

 ciety as follows: "Your book arrived just in 

 the nick of time, and it put a fourteen-inch 

 hole through the hull of the enemy from side 

 to side I" 



During the debate in the Senate, Senator Ja- 

 cob H. Gallinger, of New Hampshire, referred 

 to the Society's campaign book in the follow- 

 ing terms: "Last evening I spent an hour or 

 two in looking over Hornaday's recent work on 

 that subject [wild life protection], and I wish 

 every Senator would peruse that book, and ask 

 himself the question whether the work the Sen- 

 ator [Mr. McLean] is engaged in, in trying 

 to pass this bill, is not one that ought to com- 

 mand the co-operation and support of everv 

 man in public life." 



