CHRONOLOGY OF IMPORTANT EVENTS IN 



WILD LIFE PROTECTION AND 



EXTERMINATION 



January 1, 1913, to January 1, 1915. 



EVERY active supporter of the cause of wild life real- 

 izes the value of a regular list of important events, 

 with the dates of their occurrence. Heretofore no such list 

 ever has been prepared and published periodically. This 

 volume offers the best means available for such a publica- 

 tion, and the chronology will be made a permanent feature 

 of The Statement. Inasmuch as this volume and its suc- 

 cessors will be placed in about fifty public libraries in the 

 United States, these records will be reasonably accessible 

 to the public. 



1913 



Jan. 1. — A great campaign was then in progress in California, in which 

 the allied protectors of Wild Life were battling with the game-dealers 

 and market shooters over the sale of game. The latter had attacked 

 the Flint-Carey Law with a referendum petition intended to destroy 

 that law (of i912) against the sale of game. In 1912, several New 

 York organizations contributed substantial sums of money in aid of 

 the allies, because the sale of game in California seriously affects the 

 migratory birds of our whole Pacific Coast. 



Jan. 10.— A book entitled "Our Vanishing Wild Life," (by W. T. Horn- 

 aday), was published by the New York Zoological Society, designed as 

 a stimulus to the cause of protection throughout the world. Ten 

 thousand copies were issued by the Society, and three thousand copies 

 were issued by Charles Scribner's Sons, through the regular channels 

 of the book trade. To defray the cost Mr. Madison Grant procured 

 special subscriptions in the Board of Managers of the Zoological 

 Society amounting to $10,500. (See full subscription list elsewhere 

 in this volume.) At the expense of the Society, the volume was placed 

 in the hands of every state and national lawmaker in the United 

 States, and many other persons in positions to materially advance 

 the interests of wild life. 



Jan. 22. — Senator George P. McLean's bill for the federal protection of 

 all migratory birds passed the Senate without an opposing vote. 



