HAMLYN'S MENAGERIE MAGAZINE. 



At the Annual Meeting- of the Board of 

 Managers, which was held immediately succeed- 

 ing that of the Society, the following officers 

 were elected for the ensuing year : — 



Hon. Vice-President, Prof. Henry Fairfield 

 Osborn. 



President, Edmund Seymour. 



Vice-President, Dr. W. T. Hornaday. 



Vice-President, Carl K. McFadden. 



Secretary, M. S. Garretson. 



Treasurer, Clark Williams. 



Counsel, L. D. Baldwin. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT. 



Members of the American Bison Society. 

 Ladies and Gentlemen : — 



We are pleased to report that after a year 

 or more of vain endeavour to get an express car 

 to ship the six head of buffalo donated by the 

 Blue Mountain Forest Association, finally, with 

 the assistance of the Secretary of the Interior, 

 the Railroad Administration and the Express Ad- 

 ministration, and also the Forestry Department, 

 and Biological Survey, the car was donated, and 

 cur Secretary, Mr. M. S. Garretson, accompanied 

 the bison and saw them well established en the 

 range. The expense to the Society in this tran- 

 saction was a total cost of about $667. Of this 

 we paid the Blue Mountain Forest Association 

 $417. This covered the cost of maintaining the 

 bison while they were awaiting shipment, nearly 

 a year, the crating, etc. Cost for attendance, 

 hay and incidental expenses outside of the fur- 

 nishing of the car bv the Forestry Department, 

 $250. 



The President is pleased to announce that 

 our Treasurer, Major Clark Williams, who 

 headed the Red Cross in the field of battle in 

 Europe, has returned home and assumed his 

 duties as Treasurer, and his record is much to 

 his own credit and the honour of the Society. 



The Society - has been presented by Mr. 

 Chas. Goodnight, of Goodnight, Texas, one of 

 our Board of Managers, with the films of an In- 

 dian buffalo hunt staged by him at a large ex- 

 pense. He also paid $50 for cutting these films 

 down fro mseven reels to two reels. This was all 

 done and the films are now owned by the associa- 

 tion, and at any time that we give a banquet, 

 or the opportunity presents itself, they will be 

 shown to the members, but will constitute for 

 the Society in the future, as near as it can be 

 obtained now, an original Indian buffalo hunt 

 with bows and arrows. A number of books and 

 valuable relics have been presented to the Society. 

 These will be covered in the Secretary's report. 



Working in co-operation with the National 

 Audubon Society and with several other organiza- 

 tions, the officers of this association sent out 

 circulars asking for contributions for a Roosevelt 

 Memorial Bird Fountain. This total fund from 

 all, sources, amounts at the present time to nearly 

 $14,000. The members of this association con- 

 tributed liberally thereto. 



A memorial resolution, prepared by Dr. 

 Hornaday, was engrossed and delivered to Mrs. 

 Roosevelt by the officers of the Society and for 

 which she made due acknowledgment. This 

 resolution will be printed in the year book. 



The most important matter which has come 

 up during the year has been the question of pre- 

 servings the antelope. 



(To be continued.) 



General Notes. 



By John D. Hamlyn. 



THAT Major Poths sent the following stock 

 from Singapore : — 1 Sumatran Wild Dog, 1 

 O.rang Utan, 5 Pigtailed Macaques, 1 Slow 

 Loris, 1 Malay Tiger, 1 Black Leopard, 1 

 Clouded Tiger, 1 large Indian Civet, 1 Malay 

 Pal mCivet, 1 Short-tailed Mongoose, 3 Indian 

 Brush-tailed Porcupines. 2 Two-banded Moni- 

 tors, 1 Indian Crocodile, 1 Tree Snake. This 

 is one of the first consignments to arrive from 

 Singapore since 1914. 



THAT the London Zoological Society has lost 

 its only Kiwi. 



THAT The Mackintosh of Mackintosh and Lord 

 Lovat are doing all they can to promote 

 the policy of reconstruction in the Highlands. 

 Lord Lovat thinks considerable: assistance can 

 be given by searly half a hundred Scottish 

 County Associations, and The Mackintosh is 

 keen on introducing a new industry in Ross- 

 shire, namely, the rearing of fur-bearing ani- 

 mals. This latter proposal is, doubtless, new 

 so far as Ross-shire is ioncerned, but it was 

 in August, 1917, that Mr. J. D 1 . Hamlyn, the 

 wild-beast expert, stated that a fortune awaited 

 the first ranny Scot who took up blue fox 

 farming in earnest. The little grey beast (a 

 native of North America), he stated,, could 

 easily be bred in the North of Scotland, and 

 the capital required would not be very large. 

 Let them run wild in a large enclosed area, 



