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with Major W. Austin Wadsworth, president of the Club. Dr. 
Morris then wrote me, " The club took much interest in the matter 
. . . . which you set forth in your letter, and in favor of which 
Mr. Roosevelt spoke very strongly at the meeting." The commit- 
tee then requested that the plan be presented to the Clulj at its 
annual meeting on February 8. 191 7. The general plan presented 
to the Boone and Crockett Club at this meeting, except for certain 
financial estimates and other business items, is republished just fol- 
lowing this article (pp. 35-41). under the title Suggestions for 
Research on North American Big Game and Fur-Bearing Animals." 
In response to a letter sent to Colonel Roosevelt with a request for 
suggestions, came this reply, dated January 18, 191 7. which was quite 
characteristic : " I would not know what plan to suggest to you. 
Morris and Wadsworth are both big fellows, to whom you can 
talk in a big way, and put the case frankly before them 
It was a real pleasure to bring the matter before the Club and get 
Dr. Morris to take it up." This statement expresses very clearly 
that he believed the plans should be developed in a " big way." We 
have in these words Roosevelt's approval of the general project now 
being carried on. No other program would prove a more worthy 
Memorial of the man. 
The Boone and Crockett Club, on April 25, 1917, passed the fol- 
lowing resolution : 
" Whereas, Professor Charles C. Adams, of The New York State 
College of Forestry at Syracuse University, has brought to the 
notice of the Executive Committee of the Boone and Crockett Club 
a plan for the scientific stud)' of the life-habits of the fur-bear- 
ing and large mammals of North America, 
" Resolved, That this committee heartily approves this plan, and 
believes the results of such an investigation \\ ould be of vast scien- 
tific interest and probably of great economic value." 
(Signed) Kermit Roosevelt, 
Secretary of the Boone and Crockett Club. 
Lewis R. Morris. 
Chairman of the Special Committee. 
With the entrance of the United States into the World War on 
April 6, 1917, it was decided to reserve this plan of research for 
development at a more favorable time. The armistice was signed 
November 11. 1918, and Roosevelt died soon after, on Januar\^ 6, 
1919. These plans for research had, throughout, the hearty support 
