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Linda Gardiner), Mr. and Mrs. James Buckland, Mr. W. Hesketh 

 Pritchard, the Twentieth Century Magazine and Pearson's Magazine 

 for this bill. It was absolutely certain to pass Parliament by an 

 overwhelming vote; and in a few days more the vote would have been 

 taken. The outbreak of the war postponed indefinitely all legislation 

 save that for the prosecution of the war; but for all that, there is 

 very little left of "the feather trade," either in London or on the 

 continent. It will be years before the women of Europe and Great 

 Britain again will care to spend money in costly wild birds' plumage. 



Aug. 15. — Lumpy-jaw was reported in the herd of captive prong-horned 

 antelope at Brooks Station, Alberta; and purchases that had been 

 contemplated for the Wichita National Bison Range were abandoned. 



Sept. 1. — The last passenger pigeon died in the Cincinnati Zoological 

 Gardens, aged 21 years. The species is now totally extinct. 



Oct. 15. — The Department of Agriculture reported the existence of a 

 "serious disease" affecting the mountain sheep and mountain goats 

 of the Lemhi National Forest, Idaho. A veterinarian and three other 

 officers from the Department were sent out to make a thorough 

 investigation. 



Nov. 1. — The San Francisco Examiner printed a large game-slaughter 

 picture containing about 200 dead ducks with F. M. Newbert, President 

 of the State Game Commission, and six other gunners, representing 

 the "first day's shoot" (Oct. 15, 1914). Bitter comments were made 

 on Commissioner Newbert's attitude toward wild life. 



Nov. 3. — The great campaign made in California to save the Flint-Carey 

 law culminated in the general election. The movement was directed 

 by W. P. Taylor, Berkeley; Harry Harper, Capitola; Charles F. 

 Holder, Pasadena, and Earnest Schaeffle, San Francisco, Secretary of 

 the State Game Commission. Many organizations participated, many 

 lectures were delivered, and quantities of literature were distributed. 

 On Oct. 30, the indications pointed to success for the allies. The 

 Flint-Carey law (prohibiting the sale of game in California) was 

 wiped off the books by 8,154 majority, — defeated by Commissioner 

 Newbert. It was estimated that the publication of the Newbert 

 picture in the Examiner cost the wild life cause 25,000 votes. 



The degradation of California was accomplished by San Fran- 

 cisco and northern California alone. Los Angeles and Southern 

 California maintained the reputation of the State by a majority of 

 57,565. Had southern California been a separate State, the enemies 

 of the birds would have been overwhelmed. As it was, San Francisco 

 and northern California wiped out the southern majority, and also 

 piled upon it a net adverse majority of 8,154 votes. 



Nov. 7. — Dr. B. M. Dickinson, of Pittsburgh, and the officers of the 

 Crystal Springs Hunting Club (Clearfield, Pa.), at last won a decision 

 on a jury trial in the Clearfield County Court, against the State Game 

 Commission of Pennsylvania, reversing a previous conviction for 

 killing a fawn "without horns visible above the hair." The court 

 refused to accede to the request of the jury to be permitted to 

 examine the head of the fawn killed by Dr. Dickinson. The fawn 

 killed was about seven months old, and absolutely hornless. The 

 decision of the jury is a gross miscarriage of justice and a disgrace 

 to the State of Pennsylvania. 



Nov. 17. — W. T. Hornaday wrote F. M. Newbert, President of the State 

 Game Commission of California, calling upon him to resign. 



