FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. 31, 1908. 
National Collection of Heads 
and Horns. 
The report of the committee in charge of the 
National- Collection of Heads and Horns is just 
issued and is very gratifying. This collection is 
being made by the New York Zoological Society 
and is in charge of Madison Grant and Wm. T. 
Hornaday, a committee appointed by the society. 
The plan for such a collection was formulated 
by these gentlemen in 1906. Within the year 
many valuable gifts have been received, so that 
the store rooms which hold them are full to 
overflowing, and another room is needed in 
which to store the 
gifts. The Adminis¬ 
tration Building of 
the Zoological So¬ 
ciety is to be finished 
in 1909, and then the 
specimens will be 
suitably displayed. 
In making the col¬ 
lection two objects 
are to be kept in 
view. There will be 
at least two complete 
series, one zoological, 
showing examples of 
the heads and horns 
of different species, 
the other geographi¬ 
cal, to show the vari¬ 
ations which take 
place in the same 
species or subspecies 
in widely different localities and under different 
conditions. 
To found this collection, Dr. W. T. Hornaday 
gave his fine group of heads and horns. Next 
in importance, undoubtedly, is the Reed-Mc- 
Millan collection, the gift of Emerson McMillan, 
of New York. This, which is representative of 
the big game of Alaska and northern British 
Columbia, contains what is almost, if not quite, 
the largest moose head in the world. The spread 
of this head, dry, is 75 inches, the circumference 
of largest beam above burr, io[4 inches; num¬ 
ber of points on right antler, 19; on left, 23. 
The bear skins and bear heads in this collec¬ 
tion are extraordinary for their size. 
John R. Bradley has donated three heads, the 
trophies of an African trip, the head of a Siber¬ 
ian argali, one of the great sheep of Asia and 
an Atlantic walrus. The latter is of especial in¬ 
terest in comparison with the Pacific walrus of 
the Reed-McMillan collection. George L. Har¬ 
rison, Jr., of Philadelphia, has given twenty 
African heads, mounted and unmounted, chiefly 
antelope, and John W. Norton has presented a 
number of heads, most of them from Africa, 
but three from Western America. Caspar Whit¬ 
ney has also presented his wood bison head and 
Warburton Pike, a fine muskox head. 
One of the gems of the collection is the superb 
sheep’s head from Lower California, a trophy 
collected by Geo. H. Gould many years ago. 
This head was exhibited at the first Sportsmen’s 
Show in New York, in May, 1895, and was there 
characterized by the judges who measured the 
heads as “on the whole the finest head of which 
we have any record.” These measurements were 
recorded in one of the Boone and Crockett 
books, and the interesting story of the hunt, told 
will be gratefully received and fully accounted 
for, and each subscriber to the fund will be 
known as a Contributor, and the Contributors’ 
Fund will receive credit whenever anything is 
bought or mounted. A full list of the names of 
subscribers to this fund will be published in the 
annual publications and also will be posted in 
the exhibition hall. It is hoped that every 
American sportsman may make the upbuilding 
of this collection a personal affair, and by his 
efforts in its behalf may come to feel a 
proprietary interest in it. That is what this 
collection is—the property of American sports¬ 
men. The object is one in which all sports¬ 
men must feel a keen 
interest. 
The Indiana Game 
Outlook. 
Carlisle, Ind., Oct. 
17 .—Editor Forest 
and Stream: After 
careful inquiry and 
personal observation, 
I think we will have 
more quail here when 
the season opens on 
Nov. 10 than for 
many years previous, 
although we had 
good hunting in this 
locality last season. 
I think any hunter 
with a good dog can 
secure the limit here 
this year, which is fifteen for one day’s hunting, 
and that should be enough for anyone. 
Squirrels are plentiful; in fact, some few far¬ 
mers consider them a pest. As long as out open 
season remains as it is they will continue to 
increase. Our season opens Aug. 1 and closes 
Sept. 30. As a rule it is so hot and dry and the 
mosquitoes are so bad in these two months that 
not many hunters care to go after them then. 
Rabbits are very plentiful. In fact, conditions 
have been very good for all of the above men¬ 
tioned game here this year and they are all we 
have to shoot in this locality. 
The season has been very dry and think we 
have had two hatchings of quail. I am count¬ 
ing on some great sport during the next two 
months. Gordon. 
Gun Club for Milford, Conn. 
About two weeks ago a gun club was organ¬ 
ized at Milford, Conn. The purpose of the club 
is the protection and propagation of game and 
fish, and to encourage efforts to see the game 
laws of the State enforced. At the original 
meeting Mr. Wilbur F. Smith, Game Warden 
of Fairfield county, Conn., was present and 
gave an interesting talk. The officers of the 
newly organized club—which has not yet 
adopted a name—are: President, Geo. F. 
Smith; Vice-President, Geo. M. Munson; Sec¬ 
retary, Fred M. Clark; Treasurer, Frank S. 
Downs. 
There is every opportunity for such a club 
to do good work and to help to increase the 
game supply in what is a natural game country. 
The club starts with thirty members and is pre¬ 
pared to do good work in several directions. 
with Mr. Gould’s charm of style, was printed in 
Forest and Stream and later in “Hunting in 
Many Lands,” under the title “To the Gulf of 
Cortez.” The head is noted in Rowland Ward s 
“Measurements of Big Game.” 
Other gifts, each one possessing some special 
interest, are from the Hon. Mason Mitchell, 
American Consul at Chung-King, China; Ferdi¬ 
nand Kaegebehn, China ; Madison Grant, 1 homas 
E. Leonard, Henry Sampson, Jr., and E. H. 
Litchfield, Jr., Lieut. G. T. Emmons, E. F. Ran¬ 
dolph, Alex. Brown, Wm. Jamrach, James S. 
Martin, Ruthven W. Pike, Fred Sauter, J. M. 
Phillips, C. W. Beebe and Dexter M. Gleason. 
A FAMOUS SHEEP HEAD. 
The National Collection of Heads and Horns 
is thus growing splendidly. It has received many 
gifts from American sportsmen and will receive 
many more. It may be hoped that it will receive 
also many gifts from sportsmen of other lands. 
But even a collection of heads and horns can¬ 
not live by gifts alone. To make such a collec¬ 
tion complete it is necessary from time to time 
to purchase specimens which cannot be obtained 
by gift and which may be rare. 
The committee in charge of the collection, there¬ 
fore, appeals to sportsmen for the purpose of 
getting up a cash fund which shall be called the 
Contributors’ Fund, and of which Madison Grant 
will act as treasurer. Any sum from $5 upward 
