1852-1919 



FOR twenty years Dr. Kalbfus was a prominent 

 factor in wild lire protection in the eastern United 

 States. He entered upon his career as Secretary or the 

 Pennsylvania State Came Commission at a time when 

 wild life protection in that state was literally in its 

 infancy. He worked, and many times f ought, for ad- 

 equate game laws, their enforcement and the pun- 

 ishment of offenders. 



He was chiefly responsible for the enactment of 

 the law prohibiting aliens in Pennsylvania from own- 

 ing or carrying firearms, and he helped to fight 

 for the integrity of that law until the United States 

 Supreme Court declared it constitutional. 



He worked diligently and successfully for the 

 laws that rendered Pennsylvania one of the foremost 

 of protective states. The most notable of these causes 

 were the hunter s license law, the game preserve law, 

 the prohibitory plumage law, the vermin law, the 

 automatic shotgun law, and the buck law. 



Dr. Kalbfus was a man fearless in tbe defense 

 of -wild life, absolutely tireless as a worker, true and 

 devoted in his friendships, and generous m apprecia- 

 tion of tbe merits of otbers. His untimely deatb was 

 a severe blow to tbe cause of wild life protection, but 

 tbe results be accomplished will live for a century.. 



