ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
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ing large and important desiderata, and in 
filling up gaps. In this feature of our task, 
our good fortune has been remarkable. At 
the final showdown of actual arrangement 
we have ourselves been surprised by the 
zoological richness of our collections. In 
due course of time—and human endur¬ 
ance—it will be in order to call attention 
in this Bulletin to some of our newest 
prizes, and to gloat a few gloats over their 
possession. 
In a short time a comprehensive and well- 
illustrated guide to the collection will be pub¬ 
lished and placed on sale, at fifty cents per 
copy. Meanwhile, we take great pleasure in 
publishing herewith a complete list, up to May 
1, 1922, of the public-spirited men and women, 
—sportsmen and others interested in wild life 
and the education of the people,—whose gen- 
eious gifts of specimens and of funds with 
which to buy selected specimens, have brought 
together and breathed the breath of life into 
the National Collection of Heads and Horns. 
There are many thoughtful men who believe 
that never again will it be possible to bring to¬ 
gether another collection to equal this, because 
BURMESE BANTING 
Gift of Mortimer L. Schiff. 
RETICULATED GIRAFFE, BRITISH 
EAST AFRICA 
Deposited by David Mackenzie. 
so many of the species here 
well represented have either 
become very rare or have 
disappeared from the list of 
availables. There is alto¬ 
gether too much ground for 
this belief. As wild animal 
extermination now is pro¬ 
ceeding all over the world, 
it is saddening to think that 
one hundred years hence 
many of the species now 
shown in our collection will 
have become totally extinct. 
