AMENDMENT TO OUR PLAN OF FOUNDATION 



NO foundation designed to be permanent, and perform 

 important functions in the uplift of humanitarian 

 causes, can be regarded either as perfect or beyond im- 

 provement. When this Fund was planned for the benefit 

 of the wild life of North America, no one dreamed of such 

 world devastation as the last war speedily wrought. 



The time came when Duty called upon us to cooperate 

 in the revivifying of wild life protection activities in France 

 and elsewhere abroad. The facts in the new situation were 

 laid before all founders and subscribers to this Fund in 

 the following letter, coupled with a request for a general 

 vote on the question submitted: 



New York, July 25, 1919. 



To all Founders and Subscribers of the Permanent 

 Wild Life Protection Fund: 



When the Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund was 

 founded ithe world was at peace, and all nations with 

 which we had close relations in the protection of wild 

 life were prosperous, and abundantly able to finance 

 their own campaign work. It was on that basis that we 

 proposed to make the work of the Fund national in its 

 scope instead of international, and to limit our financial 

 support to the protection and increase of the wild life 

 of America, and especially North America and the United 

 States. 



But the war has overturned and destroyed the peace- 

 ful and prosperous conditions abroad which once ren- 

 dered financial aid from America unnecessary. Today 

 America stands in the position of the helper of the world, 

 financially and otherwise. The "impossible" things that 

 have happened have caused the American people to aban- 

 don the most of their previous precedents, and formu- 

 late new policies. These new conditions now affect the 

 protection of wild life. 



