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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
SrjrartmrntH: 
Mammals Aquarium 
W. T. Hornaday. C. H. Townsend. 
Birds Reptiles 
Lee S. Crandall. Raymond L. Ditmars 
William Beebe. Honorary Curator, Birds 
Published bi-monthly at the Office of the Society. 
Ill Broadway, New York City. 
Copy, 25 Cents Yearly, $1.50 
mailed free to members 
Copyright, 1922, oy the New York Zoological Society. 
Subscription and Editorial Offices 
ZOOLOGICAL PABK, NEYV YORK CITY 
Elwin R. Sanborn, Editor 
Each author is responsible for the scientific accuracy and 
the proof reading of his contribution. 
Vol. XXV July, 1922 No. 4 
EMERSON McMILLIN 
The loss of this good friend is indeed a sor¬ 
rowful event. Mr. McMillin belonged to the 
small group of great-souled men whose later 
lives have been one long round of sacrifices for 
the good of mankind in general, and the wel¬ 
fare of New York in particular. Looking back¬ 
ward we behold him as a good soldier of the 
Civil War, a great captain of industry, and ad¬ 
vocate of peace, but a strong helper in the last 
war, a generous patron of zoology and art, and 
above all a deeply sympathetic and helpful 
friend of mankind. 
Mr. McMillin was a Founder in Perpetuity of 
the New York Zoological Society, and had been 
an active member of the Board of Managers 
from 1909 to 1922. He was especially inter¬ 
ested in the National Collection of Heads and 
Horns and in the gallery of animal paintings. 
His keenest interest, however, and his most pro¬ 
found sympathy was manifested by augmenting 
the salaries of the employees of the Zoological 
Park on certain occasions only too well remem 
bered. 
At all times Mr. McMillin’s influence on pub¬ 
lic affairs and institutions was broadminded, 
constructive and helpful. By those who really 
knew him he was sincerely beloved, and also 
admired, and his great store of sympathy and 
human kindness was ever open to the causes and 
the men whom he approved. 
The golden chain of memories left behind 
by Emerson McMillin constitutes a heritage of 
priceless value. 
W. T. H. 
CHARLES R. MILLER, 
DEFENDER OF WILD LIFE. 
The wild life of the world has lost a great 
friend and champion. For a much longer per¬ 
iod than that enjoyed by any other editor of 
our acquaintance, Mr. Charles R. Miller’s 
twenty-five years of keen sympathy, true vision, 
dauntless courage and tireless industry in sup¬ 
porting movements and causes for the conserva¬ 
tion of wild life, and in defense of the rights of 
animals, rendered him in this field the foremost 
editorial force of the w r orld. 
There was no cause too hazardous for him to 
venture, and none too humble to be helped. The 
most valuable of all newspaper help in a wild 
life protection campaign is that furnished by 
the editorial page in leading articles, and it was 
then that Mr. Miller fired great broadsides in 
support of the foot soldiers in the field. But for 
his untimely and unexpected passing from life, 
he would shortly have received the gold medal 
of the Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund 
for distinguished services to wild life. 
Mr. Miller’s interest in zoology was very 
keen, very scholarly, and as wide as the world. 
He was a genuine naturalist. He actively 
helped to found the New York Zoological So¬ 
ciety, and for a number of years was a diligent 
member of its Board of Managers. 
The wild life of the world has lost a gallant 
defender, and the army of the defense has lost 
a powerful ally beside whom it was an honor 
and a pleasure to work. 
W. T. H. 
SAGE AND CONVERSE BEQUESTS 
On February 21, 1922, securities in the 
amount of $146,808.04 were received from the 
Sage Estate. In May, payment of the balance 
of $25,000 due from the Estate of Edmund C. 
Converse was made, making a total of $50,000 
received from this estate. 
THE DESTRUCTION OF “PEST” 
ANIMALS 
With the continued disappearance of mam¬ 
malian, bird and fish life, we hear annually 
more and more about the depredations of the 
so-called animal “pests.” There is also a cres¬ 
cendo note of demand for the destruction of the 
so-called pests. Now, in view of all this, we 
