Preservation of the Wild 



the development and preservation of the Yellow- 

 stone Park, which we owe largely to the initiative 

 of Phillips, Grinnell and Rogers. Grant and La 

 Farge were pioneers in the New York Zoological 

 Park movement. We know the work of Merriam 

 and Wadsworth, and we always know the sympa- 

 thies of our honored founder, member, and guest 

 of this evening, Theodore Roosevelt. 



What the Club can do is to spread information 

 and thoroughly enlighten the people, who always 

 act rightly when they understand. 



It must not be put on the minutes of the his- 

 tory of America, a country which boasts of its 

 popular education, that the Sequoia, a race 

 10,000,000 years old, sought its last refuge in the 

 United States, with individual trees older than the 

 entire history and civilization of Greece, that an 

 appeal to the American people was unavailing, 

 that the finest grove was cut up for lumber, 

 fencing, shingles and boxes! It must not be 

 recorded that races of animals representing stocks 

 3,000,000 years of age, mostly developed on the 

 American continent, were eliminated in the course 

 of fifty years for hides and for food in a country 

 abounding in sheep and cattle. 



The total national investment in animal preser- 

 vation will be less than the cost of a single battle- 



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