ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 
NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SERIES. 
Portions of the Barber, Madeira and House Collections are shown. 
We 
game 
of British East Africa last in anything like 
Arthur Jordan, of Nairobi and the veldt. 
asked him recently, “How long will the 
abundance, as it is now being shot, and as the 
country is being settled up?” 
He replied, “Oh, it will last quite a long time. 
At least ten of the 
serves, it is bound to go.” 
years! But outside pre- 
Another authority, when asked the same ques- 
tion, thoughtfully answered, “Outside the pre- 
serves, the best of the big game will be gone in 
ten or fifteen years.” 
It is indeed time for the men of to-day who 
care for the interests of the men of to-morrow, 
to be up and doing in the forming of collections 
that a hundred years hence will justly and ade- 
quately represent the vanished wild life of the 
world. 
It is impossible to give in this short article 
anything more than a brief sketch of the Na- 
tional Collection of Heads and Horns as it ap- 
peared at the private view afforded the sports- 
men of America, and the contributors, on June 
2, 1910. Owing to the unfortunate delay that 
it seems must yet ensue in the furnishing of the 
Administration Building, by contract made at a 
public letting, the building is fated to remain 
closed and unused until—Heaven alone knows 
when! 
As the collection hangs to-day, it is to be 
In some 
features it is already strong, in others it is con- 
Already it crowds the walls of 
the two picture galleries that we once thought 
would hold it rather handsomely for about five 
Already we are compelled to apologize 
because the specimens of the Barber Collection, 
the Donaldson-Smith Collection, and others 
also, are so crowded that even the “record” 
horns are cramped for room. 
The promptness and enthusiasm with which 
regarded only as a serious beginning. 
fessedly weak. 
years. 
the sportsmen and nature-lovers of America— 
and England also—have come forward in sup- 
port of the plan inaugurated only three short 
years ago, have surprised and delighted the 
Zoological Society. At first there was some fear 
that the effort might not receive much support 
outside of New York City; but that apprehen- 
sion quickly proved to be groundless. We have 
received valuable gifts from British East Africa, 
London, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, 
Doylestown, Victoria, Santa Barbara 
Chung King, China. 
Kashmir, 
and 
In heads and horns of African big game, we 
begin to be strong. Beginning with the largest 
forms, the magnificent African Elephant head 
loaned by Mr. Samuel Thorne, and the great 
“record” tusks presented by Mr. Charles T. 
