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Group of Mounted Antelope. 
bers of the executive committee to serve until 
1918, Elton Clark, Framingham, Massachusetts, 
and J. Coleman Drayton, New York; the Game 
Preservation Committee and the Editorial Com¬ 
mittee were continued. 
Of committee reports the most important wa^ 
that of the Game Preservation Committee, ot 
which Charles Sheldon is chairman. The report 
reviews the work of the committee for the past 
two years, the passage of the migratory bird law, 
fur seal legislation, game refuges, National and 
state, the game situation, Alaska game law, big 
game in the north and the relations there of 
Indians and white men, the work done by club 
members and others in investigating big game 
animals, and various other matters. 
The preservation of the antelope and bear pre¬ 
sent serious problems. Antelope should be in¬ 
creased by breeding in refuges, and laws should 
be passed to protect bears. More game refuges 
are necessary, and all the National forest re¬ 
serves should be made game refuges. For the 
most part the game laws that we have are very 
good, but are ineffective because not properly 
enforced. Therefore, most of the means and 
energies of game protectionists should be direct¬ 
ed toward the enforcement of the game laws. 
The great danger of the extermination of the 
unique pronghorn antelope has long been recog¬ 
nized by the Club, and four years ago the com¬ 
mittee obtained permission to have some ante¬ 
lope caught in the Yellowstone Park and shipped 
to the Wichita Game Preserve and to the 
Montana Bison Range. For this it paid all the 
costs. Owing to lack of knowledge on the part 
of those who captured the animals, many of 
these antelope were injured, and of the twelve 
sent to the Montana Bison Range only five sur¬ 
vived, but within the last two years seven young 
have been born to these five. The attempt to 
stock the Wichita National Game Preserve was 
not encouraging, only two animals, both does, 
surviving. Nevertheless, it seemed important 
that these efforts should be continued, and after 
a permit had been obtained from the Canadian 
authorities for the capture of a limited number 
of fawns, a contract was made with a resident 
of western Canada to undertake this work. He 
succeeded in capturing three buck and three doe 
fawns, and these, together with four bucks and 
three does additional—all over a year old—were 
delivered to a representative of the Biological 
Survey at the border, inspected, passed, and 
safely delivered at the Wind Cave National 
Park, near Hot Springs, South Dakota, as a 
gift from the Boone and Crockett Club to the 
United States. The total cost of the matter- 
paid from the club’s game preservation fund— 
was $1,338.84. The Secretary of Agriculture 
acknowledged to President Wadsworth in a very 
cordial letter the club’s generous gift, which he 
said “marks an important step in safeguarding 
the future of that animal.” 
The committee justly calls the passage of the 
Migratory Bird Law the most important and far- 
reaching result yet attained during the progress 
of game protection. It believes that the prin¬ 
ciple here established will ultimately be extended 
over game animals. 
The report of the committee sent to the fur 
