14 THE AMERICAN BISON IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. 



MAINE. 



State of Maine, Executive Department, 



Augusta, February 8, 1902. 

 Dear Sir: Your favor of the 3d instant, asking information in 

 regard to buffalo in the State of Maine, has been received at this 

 department, and has been referred to the commissioners of inland 

 fisheries and game, who will give you such facts as they may have in 

 regard to the matter. 



Very respectfully, N. S. Purinton, 



Private Secretary. 



Hon. E. A. Hitchcock, 



Secretary of the Interior, Washington, I), C. 



Office Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game, 



Augusta, February 10, 190%. 

 Dear Sir: Replying to your favor of the 3d, to the governor of 

 Maine, transmitting copy of the resolution of the Senate of the United 

 States asking for information with reference to the preservation of the 

 buffalo or American bison in the United States, I beg to say that there 

 are none in the State of Maine, neither wild nor in private parks or 

 private herds. 



I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



Leevy T. Carleton, Chairman. 



Hon. E. A. Hitchcock, 



Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D. G. 



Note. — Since the receipt of the foregoing, the following additional data has been 

 received from the Superintendent of the National Zoological Park, District of Colum- 

 bia, through the Smithsonian Institution: 



Lewiston, Brunswick and Bath Street Railway, 



Brunswick, Me. , February W, 190%. 

 Dear Sir: Replying to }^our letter of the 18th instant, will say we 

 do not at the present time own any buffaloes. It is true that we 

 bought some of the Page Woven Wire Fence Company, one pair of 

 which is now at our park, the property of Mr. A. F. Gerald. 



The buffaloes which we have owned, 3 in number, a pair with calf 

 9 months old, were sold by us last fall to the New York Zoological 

 Society, and are now, we believe, at Bronx Park, New York City. 

 We think the above are all the buffaloes in the State of Maine. 

 Yours, trury, 



M. H. Blackwell, Treasurer. 



Dr. Frank Baker, 



Superintendent National Zoological Park, 



Washington, D. G. 



MARYLAND . 



Executive Department, 

 Annapolis, Md., February 13, 190%. 

 Dear Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your 

 communication of February 3, with inclosure, and I beg to say in reply 



