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We said in the beginning — in our correspondence — that 

 so far as in us lies the names of the men and women who 

 make sacrifices in order that this Cause may prosper, shall 

 be known permanently in connection with the work and 

 the results of this Fund. We mean this for 100 years, and 

 longer if we can insure it. We have noticed that in far 

 too many causes for the benefit of humanity, the names of 

 founders easily become obscured, or are permitted to disap- 

 pear. This is entirely wrong. We are well assured that no 

 one has subscribed to this Fund for the purpose of per- 

 petuating a name, but for all that it should be the pleasure 

 both of the present Trustees and of those who come after 

 them, to perpetuate the names and the personalities of the 

 men and women who by their loyalty to wild life and to 

 humanity have brought this Fund into existence. The 

 world should be placed in a position to thank intelligently 

 all those whose gifts of money are the moving cause of 

 the results in wild life protection that this Fund will 

 achieve. 



To this end, the Trustees lay it upon their successors, as 

 a duty not to be neglected, the publication in the "Biennial 

 Statement" of a portrait of each Founder. 



The Report. — It seems to the Trustees desirable that once 

 every two years there shall be published a "Statement" 

 in line with the present volume, and in form for permanent 

 preservation. A regularly published report of some kind 

 is quite necessary for the information of Founders and 

 Subscribers. It seems desirable that it should be in a form 

 suitable for preservation in libraries, and that fifty public 

 libraries should receive it regularly. It should report upon 

 those features of the wild life situation that call for special 

 notice or report, and it should record important current 

 history in wild life protection, or extermination. 



The Future. — Just what the future has in store for this 

 Fund, we cannot even guess. We can only hope. We hope 

 that somehow more subscriptions will come in. There is 

 one thing, however, that we know: The campaigning 

 Trustee knows full well that the holders of the great finan- 

 cial "interests" that are behind the manufacture of the 



