1851-1919 



THROUGHOUT his busy life, Mr. Bourne 

 represented a line or men who for half a century- 

 nave pumped lire Mood into the veins of NewYofk s 

 institutions, and received m return only trie most 

 meagre appreciation from the public. 



Although not keenly interested in sport with 

 tne gun and rod, or in trie study of wild life as a special 

 diversion, Mr. Bourne was very sympathetic and 

 helpful to those who were zoologically minded. He 

 was an ardent and generous member of the Board of 

 Managers of the Zoological Society, a Founder m 

 perpetuity, and -when he was invited to become a 

 Founder of the Permanent Wild Life Protection 

 Fund he responded promptly and graciously. The 

 idea of becoming a perpetual helper of the wild life 

 cause appealed to his love for humanity and practi- 

 cal usefulness. 



In times like these the world can ill afford to 

 lose such men as Mr. Bourne, because the events and 

 the new impulses of the present period do not tend to 

 encourage or promote the further development of the 

 broad and generous spirit of philanthropy and hu- 

 manitananism that reached its zenith in New York 

 in the year 1919. 



