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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
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OBJECTS OF TIIE SOCIETY 
«IA PUBLIC ZOOLOGICAL PARK. <1 A PUBLIC AQUA¬ 
RIUM. fl THE PRESERVATION OF OUR NATIVE 
ANIMALS. fTHE PROMOTION OF ZOOLOGY. 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
Published bi-monthly at the Office of the Society, 
111 Broadway, New York City. 
MAILED FREE TO MEMBERS 
Subscription and Editorial Offices 
ZOOLOGICAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY 
Elwin R. Sanborn, Editor 
Copyright. 1923. oy the New York Zoological Society 
jBrpartmpnts: 
Mammals 
William T. Hornaday 
Aquarium 
Charles H. Townsend 
Birds 
Lee S. Crandall. 
Reptiles 
Raymond L. Ditmars 
William Bef.be. Honorary Curator. Birds 
Each author is resDonsible for the scientific accuracy and 
the proof reading of his contribution. 
Vol. XXVI January, 1923 No. 1 
THE HOWARD EATON TRAIL. 
Among the many human documents that come 
to the desk of the Director of the New York 
Zoological Park from far distant points, many 
are too good to be lost to the public. Unfor¬ 
tunately, however, no adequate, medium is avail¬ 
able for any considerable number of publications 
of this kind, and, therefore, we regretfully file 
away a great many letters of thrilling interest 
which we would gladly give to the readers of 
the Bulletin if we could. 
As an illustration of this, we present, 
precisely as it was written, the following com¬ 
munication from the Superintendent of Yellow¬ 
stone Park. TV. T. II. 
Office of the Superintendent. 
Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, 
October 31, 1922. 
My dear Dr. Hornaday: 
My friends, the Eaton brothers, tell me that 
you have in preparation an article on the late 
Howard Eaton, and they advise me that they 
are writing you about our memorial trail, the 
“Howard Eaton Trail,’' which we built this year 
paralleling the loop road system of Yellowstone 
Park—a great trail system that has been built 
in part for years but never wholly completed to 
touch all points of interest and at the same time 
make it possible for saddle horses to keep off 
the automobile road. There are a few sections 
of this trail still to be improved, but it is for 
all intents and purposes finished. 
I am sending you a map showing you approxi¬ 
mately the route of the trail. We put up over 
two hundred signs entitled “Howard Eaton 
Trail,” and at some point on the trail we expect 
to have a sign detailing the life work of Howard 
Eaton, particularly his game protective activities. 
I cannot imagine a finer memorial to Howard 
than this trail and I know you will want to men¬ 
tion it in your article. The trail will be approxi¬ 
mately 150 miles in length and many sections of 
it are as spectacular in the scenic views they 
present as any trails in any national park. 
Yellowstone and Glacier Parks, and even the 
states of Montana and Wyoming, are not just 
exactly the same since Howard Eaton passed 
away. I have missed him terribly this year and 
the absence of his horseback party left a great 
void in Yellowstone season. Howard Eaton was 
a wonderful man—a nature lover of the highest 
type, a devoted friend of wild life, a fighting 
conservationist in a land where only that kind 
of a protectionist could be effective, and above 
all, he was a royal good fellow, and because of 
his generous heart, genial smile, ready wit and 
devoted friendship, could not have anything but 
friends—I have never heard of his having an 
enemy. 
Should you mention the Howard Eaton Trail 
and want to give credit for the origin of die 
project and the name, please do not give it to 
me alone, because it was more the idea and work 
of Chief Ranger Samuel T. Woodring, of Yellow¬ 
stone Park, that accomplished this memorial than 
anything that I did, although, of course, the idea 
appealed to me from the start and had my 
earnest consideration and attention from the time 
we first undertook the project. 
Sincerely you s, 
PI or ac e M. Albright. 
Superintendent. 
OUR NEW MUSK-OX HERD 
Again the Zoological Society has achieved a 
musk-ox herd. About one year ago an order 
was placed with Mr. Jobs. Lund, of Aalesund, 
Norway, for a collection of musk-ox calves, 
provided any were caught by the whalers of 
Norway during their spring cruise in 1922. 
During the previous year no calves had been 
caught on the coast of Greenland because the 
heavy ice prevented the whalers from reaching 
the land. 
This year, however, conditions were much 
more favorable. With a certain prospect of the 
sale of several calves if they could catch any, 
the whalers took a recess from their regular 
whaling operations, landed at Franz Joseph 
Fjord, and captured nine musk-ox calves, the 
