Heads and Horns Number 
ZOOLOGICAL 
SOCIETY BULLETIN 
Number 40 
Published by the New York Zoological Society 
July, 1910 
NATIONAL COLLECTION 
HEN Mr. Madison Grant declared in his 
address on June 2, that “as big-game 
sportsmen, we are the last of our race,” 
the statement startled his audience; but the sen- 
tences that followed quickly convinced every 
listener of its truth. The occasion was the 
luncheon given by the Zoological Society at the 
Boat House Restaurant in the Zoological Park, 
for the contributors to the National Collection 
of Heads and Horns.* 
*Mr. Grant’s address will be published in full in 
the next number of the “Heads and Horns” annual. 
ZOOLOGICAL SERIES 
UETWATECY TO RE 
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AFRICAN ELEPHANT TUSKS, PRESENTED BY THE LATE CHARLES T. BARNEY. 
Some of the heads and horns from the Barber Collection may be seen on the wall. 
OF HEADS AND HORNS. 
The key-notes of Mr. Grant’s address were— 
the inexorable disappearance of the grand game 
animals of the world, and the imperative neces- 
sity of gathering now the collections that will 
adequately represent them hereafter when rem- 
nants of the wild species of to-day will exist 
only in protected game preserves,—or not at all. 
As an illustration of what the immediate fu- 
ture has in store, take the wild-animal paradise 
that still exists in British East Africa. There 
are few men who know more of the wild life of 
that region, by actual daily contact, than Mr. 
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