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but none of them contained more than a sprinkling of 

 sportsmen. In fact, the killers of game were conspicuous 

 by their absence. Not only were the majority of the audi- 

 ences large, but they contained the representative men and 

 women, both in business and the professions, that we par- 

 ticularly desired to reach. 



The friends of wild life in the various cities visited ren- 

 dered their very best co-operation, and all along the route, 

 save in San Francisco, the press gave our cause generous 

 publicity. The lectures given were illustrated by lantern 

 slides ; and many pictures from them, showing recent game 

 slaughter, and the results of game protection, were pub- 

 lished in the newspapers. 



At each point visited the "leading citizen" element was 

 strongly in evidence, and the local auspices were everything 

 that could be desired. For example, at Denver the lecture 

 was given under the special patronage of the Colorado Mu- 

 seum of Natural History and the Colorado Mountains 

 Club; at Seattle it was the Mountaineers Club and the 

 Seattle Park Commission; at Portland the State Fish and 

 Game Commission took charge ; at Berkeley the University 

 of California was the sponsor for our cause, and in the 

 Panama Exposition we were under the wing of the United 

 States Government. At Los Angeles the California Audu- 

 bon Society was our host, and in Pasadena the Throop In- 

 stitute of Technology. At Tucson we enjoyed the joint 

 hospitality of the University of Arizona and the Desert 

 Botanical Laboratory. At Phoenix our chief patron was 

 no less a personage than the Governor of Arizona, Hon. Geo. 

 W. P. Hunt, aided by the State Game Warden's office. 



At Albuquerque the speaking tour ended under the joint 

 auspices of the U. S. Forest Service, the University of New 

 Mexico and the Albuquerque Gun Club. Elsewhere will ap- 

 pear a list giving a few of the names of the western men and 

 women who toiled to make the presentation of our cause 

 satisfactory and successful. To thank them adequately is 

 almost impossible. 



