FIRST BIENNIAL STATEMENT 71 



Dec. 18-22. — President Henry Fairfield Osborn, for the American Museum 

 of Natural History; Vice-President Madison Grant, for the New 

 York Zoological Society, and W. T. Hornaday, for the Permanent 

 Wild Life Protection Fund, each wrote to Governor Johnson of 

 California, pointing out the necessity of removing Game Commissioner 

 Newbert and appointing in his place a man devoted to real wild 

 life conservation rather than to duck-shooting. 



Dec. 30. — It is reported that Canada is disinclined to consider the making 

 of a treaty with the United States for the protection of migratory 

 birds until after the war is over. 



