ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
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Mammals Aquarium 
W. T. Hornadat. C. H. Towmsknd. 
Birds Reptiles 
Lee S. Crandall, Raymond L. Ditmaks. 
William Beebe, Honorary Curator, Birds 
Published bi-monthly at the Office of the Society, 
111 Broadway, New York City. 
Copy, 25 Cents Yearly, $1.50 
MAILED FREE TO MEMBERS 
Copyright, 1922, by the New York Zoological Society. 
Subscription and Editorial Officf.s 
ZOOLOGICAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY 
Elwin R. Sanborn, Editor 
Each author is responsible for the scientific accuracy 
and the proof reading- of his contribution. 
Vol. XXV May, 1922 ” No. 3 
Commissioner JOHN H. WALLACE, Jr., 
of Alabama 
The wild birds and beasts of America have 
lost a brave and tireless champion. The un¬ 
timely passing of Col. John H. Wallace, Jr., 
State Conservation Commissioner of Alabama, 
leaves a wide gap in the foremost rank of the 
defenders of wild life. 
In the South, Commissioner Wallace was a 
true pioneer in the field of wild life defense. 
He “organized” Alabama, and put it on the 
map as a thorough-going game-protecting state. 
He was as fearless as he was tactful; and south¬ 
ern men and women love a leader who is not 
afraid to lead. 
For at least ten years there has not been one 
wild life campaign of national interest that was 
not actively promoted and pushed by Co. Wal¬ 
lace. He worked for the regeneration of Flor¬ 
ida when some of the rest of us had abandoned 
that state as a hopeless ease. Although far 
from Washington and New York, his boundless 
activity and vitalizing force made it seem as if 
he lived in Newark instead of Montgomery. 
From the council chamber and the firing-line 
the brave and helpful spirit of John H. Wallace 
will be sadly missed as the next twenty years 
go by. 
HOWARD EATON, Outdoorsman. 
One of America’s finest and best loved out- 
doorsmen has gone over the great divide, and 
entered the Valley of Rest. In the hospital at 
Sheridan, Wyoming, on Wednesday, April 19, 
after an operation for appendicitis, Howard 
Eaton passed away. We had been confidently 
expecting the news that he had safely passed 
the crisis. 
For twenty-five years “the Eaton Brothers 
Ranch,” first on the Little Missouri, at Medora, 
North Dakota, and afterward at Wolf, Wyo¬ 
ming, was the Mecca of literally thousands of 
city men and women who annually felt the call 
of the open plains, the bad-lands and moun¬ 
tains, and kindred spirits of the ranch and trail 
and campfire. Jolly, picturesque, and interest¬ 
ing Howard, the senior member of the insepar¬ 
able brothers, attracted outdoors people as a 
magnet attracts nails. To know him was to 
love him. Straight as a gunbarrel and clean as 
a mountain stream, a sportsman, a game pro¬ 
tectionist, a plainsman and exponent of life in 
the open, he led thousands into the outdoor 
trails that tend to soundness of body, brain and 
morals. He knew his West as very few men 
know it. He conducted parties to everything 
that was worth seeing; and his patience was 
boundless. He was a man of a million friends, 
with no enemies, and his passing will be widely 
and deeply deplored. 
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FACSIMILE OF THE NOTICE POSTED FOR THE PRO¬ 
TECTION OF NEW BIRD SANCTUARIES IN FRANCE 
WILD LIFE PROTECTION IN FRANCE 
The latest Bulletin of the French League for 
the Protection of Birds contains the gratifying 
news that during the past year thirty sanctu¬ 
aries for birds and other wild life have been 
established in France through the efforts and 
under the auspices of that organization. A com¬ 
plete list of these refuges is published and the 
total area amounts to about 1977 acres. The 
League announces its expectation that in 1922 
one hundred more such preserves will be estab¬ 
lished in France. Special reference is made to 
the recognition of public duty to the birds valu¬ 
able to agriculture. 
