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[Jan. 29, 1910. 
quarry; in the instinct for the well-devised ap¬ 
proach to a fair shooting distance; and in the 
patient retrieve of a wounded animal. 
Members of the Shikar Club include many of 
the best sportsmen and naturalists of Great 
Britain, and among the honorary members are 
Madison Grant, Wm. T. Hornaday and Theo¬ 
dore Roosevelt. 
The annual meeting of the Boone and Crock¬ 
ett Club, followed by a dinner, is always an 
occasion of great interest, and for the past year 
the smokers held by the club at its rooms m 
New York have given much pleasure to New 
York members and to those from out of town 
who have been able to attend them. 
The annual meeting of the club for 1910 was 
held on Thursday, Jan. 20, in the Council Cham¬ 
ber of the University Club, Fifty-fourth street 
and Fifth avenue, New York. It was largely 
attended. Those present were: James W. Ap¬ 
pleton, Geo. Bleistein,' Admiral Willard H. 
Brownson, Winthrop Chanler, W. Redmond 
Cross, Chas. Stewart Davison, H. Casimir de 
Rham, Walter B. Devereux, B. Dominick, Jr., 
Dr. Wm. K. Draper, Dr. D. G. Elliott, James 
T. Gardiner, DeForest Grant, Madison Grant, 
Henry G. Gray, Geo. Bird Grinnell, Arnold 
Hague, G. L. Harrison, Jr., J. H. Kidder, C. 
Grant La Farge, Dr. Alexander Lambert, Town¬ 
send Lawrence, E. Hubert Litchfield, Dr. Lewis 
R. Morris, Henry Clay Pierce, Percy C. Maderia, 
A. P. Proctor, Dr. John Rogers, Jr., Dr. J. L. 
Seward, Chas. Sheldon, Dr. W. Lord Smith, E. 
Le Roy Stewart, Henry L. Stimson, Major W. 
A. Wadsworth, Wm. Fitzhugh Whitehouse, J. 
Walter Wood, Col. Geo. S. Anderson, Dr. H. 
C. Bumpus, Dr. Wm. T. Hornaday, Prof. Henry 
Fairfield Osborn, Dr. Chas. H. Townsend, R. T. 
Emmet, H. S. Pritchett, Lyman W. Bass, Frank 
Lyman,’ Walter B. James, Archibald Rogers, C. 
B. Macdonald. 
There were present as guests Gen. Leonard 
Wood, George Mixter and Dr. Mixter, of Bos¬ 
ton; A. Radclyffe Dugmore, of New York, and 
Henry Sampson, Jr., of New York. 
The committee in charge of the dinner were: 
Col. Geo. S. Anderson, Chairman; C. Grant La 
Farge and Wm. F. Whitehouse. 
The meeting was called to order at 7 0 clock, 
the president, Major W. Austin Wadsworth, in 
the chair. 
The secretary reported that at the last annual 
meeting and dinner of the club, held at the Uni¬ 
versity Club, on Jan. 26, 1909, there were pres¬ 
ent thirty-six members and fifteen guests. Dur¬ 
ing the year 1909 one death occurred, that of 
Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, who died July 5. There 
had been one transfer to associate membership, 
that of B. C. Tilghman. 
The above four vacancies were filled by the 
election of the following: Bayard Dominick, 
Jr., Henry G. Gray, E. Hubert Litchfield, Percy 
C. Maderia; that six new associate members 
had been elected: Maj.-Gen. John C. Bates, Col. 
William E. Dougherty, Major Charles J. Crane, 
Dr. Herman C. Bumpus, Dr. Charles H. Town¬ 
send, Dr. William T. Hornaday. There are no 
vacancies in the regular membership and that 
associate members number forty-five. 
Two requests for transfer from regular to 
associate membership have been received, F. S. 
Billings and E. LeRoy Stewart. 
Monthly smokers of the club have been held 
at headquarters, 29 West Thirty-ninth street, 
on the first Thursday of each month, beginning 
with March 12 last. At the smoker held on Aug. 
5, Mr. Litchfield and Mr. Dominick showed a 
number of their photographs taken on their re¬ 
cent trip to Africa, which were greatly admired. 
At the smoker held on Oct. 7 three members of 
Commander Robert E. Peary’s ship the Roose¬ 
velt were present, Captain R. A. Bartlett, Dr. 
J. W. Goodsell and Engineer George A. Ward- 
well. The club room has been in charge of a 
house committee composed of Charles Stewart 
Davison, Townsend Lawrence and Alexander 
Lambert. 
Two interesting autograph letters of Daniel 
Boone and David Crockett have been purchased, 
framed and placed in the club room. 
The report of the treasurer was received, ac¬ 
cepted and ordered placed on file. 
The by-laws were amended so as to increase 
the annual dues. 
The nominating committee recommended the 
election of the following officers and commit¬ 
tees, and no other names being presented they 
were elected: President, W. Austin Wadsworth, 
Geneseo, N. Y. Vice-Presidents, Arnold Hague, 
Washington, D. C.; Walter B. Devereux, Colo¬ 
rado; Winthrop Chanler, New York; William 
D. Pickett, Wyoming; Archibald Rogers, New 
York. Secretary, Madison Grant, New York. 
Treasurer, C. Grant LaFarge, New York. 
Executive Committee to serve until 1913, W. 
Redmond Cross, New York; Charles Stewart 
Davison, New York. Editorial Committee, Geo. 
Bird Grinnell, New York; Theodore Roosevelt, 
Oyster Bay, L. I. Committee on Game Meas¬ 
urements, Janies H. Kidder, Chairman, New 
York; Madison Grant, New York; Charles 
Sheldon, New York. 
The chairman of the house committee re¬ 
ported in favor of the continuance of the head¬ 
quarters of the club, and the report was re¬ 
ferred to the executive committee. 
It was resolved that the president of the club 
appoint a committee of six, of whom the presi¬ 
dent shall be one, to consider what steps should 
be taken to broaden the activities and develop 
the usefulness of the Boone and Crockett Club, 
more especially with reference to its taking a 
more active part in the protection of game, the 
said committee to report td the executive com¬ 
mittee from time to time and to make a full 
report with recommendations at the next annual 
meeting. 
At the adjournment of the meeting the annual 
dinner was held. After it was over a resolution 
was offered by Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn 
and adopted with enthusiasm by the club ex¬ 
pressing its interest and sympathy in, and its 
appreciation of, the conservation work done by 
its member, Gifford Pinchot. Later E. Hubert 
Litchfield gave a most interesting talk on his 
recent experiences in East Africa, illustrated by 
more than one hundred colored lantern slides. 
Mr. Litchfield showed on a map the country 
traversed by his expedition, made by himself. 
Bayard Dominick, Jr., and Henry Sampson, Jr., 
described the geography of the route, the hunt¬ 
ing incidents of the trip and many of the ani¬ 
mals met with. At the close of his talk a vote 
of thanks was extended to Mr. Litchfield. 
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Pellagra, Black Tongue, Eic. 
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 3. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: Attached find an article from the Nash¬ 
ville Banner on pellagra as applied to man and 
dogs, which I would be very glad to have you 
reproduce in your paper if you see fit to do so. 
There is not a subject of more interest being 
discussed to-day, and the article as it applies 
to dogs will, in my opinion, be very profitable 
reading matter for the owners of dogs in the 
territory where the disease commonly known 
as “black tongue” is prevalent. 
Jno. F. Draughon. 
It was recently announced in a press dis¬ 
patch sent from New Orleans that Dr. J. R. 
Flushing, president of the DeSoto Medical Asso¬ 
ciation of Louisiana, had given it as his pro¬ 
fessional opinion that pellagra attacks dogs and 
is communicable by them to man, the doctor 
declaring that he was then treating a patient 
who had unmistakably contracted the disease 
by contact with his dogs, of which he has a 
number. 
Dr. Rushing had his patient before the Med¬ 
ical Board at New Orleans, and his diagnosis 
of the case was confirmed. 
The statement naturally aroused considerable 
interest among medical men and dog fanciers, 
eliciting comment both favorable and unfavor¬ 
able to the theory. Prof. John F. Draughon, 
the well-known educator of this city, was espe¬ 
cially interested in the statement, and he began 
to bethink himself of the many infirmities that 
had from time to time affected his own dogs; 
hence, he wrote Dr. Rushing. 
The entire correspondence between Dr. Rush¬ 
ing and Prof. Draughon is published, believing 
that the matter is of vital importance, and that 
the reading will prove profitable to those who 
are interested in the subject. 
As a matter of fact, this disease, pellagra, is 
attracting the careful study and experimenta¬ 
tion of professional men all over the world; 
and if it can be established as a fact that this 
new disease attacking man is really an offspring 
of “black tongue” as affecting dogs, a wonder¬ 
ful stride in the acquirement of valuable scien¬ 
tific knowledge will have been made. 
Prof. Draughon gives in this correspondence 
his treatment for dogs, and states that in ac¬ 
cordance with his experience ninety per cent of 
the cases should be cured. 
The correspondence follows: 
“Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 13, 1909.—Dr. J. 
R. Rushing, President the DeSoto Medical 
Association of Louisiana, Benson, La.: Dear 
Sir—I am interested in a recent press dispatch 
stating that you are treating a case of pellagra, 
a Mr. Best, and that the disease was contracted 
from dogs, he having lost several dogs from a 
disease strikingly similar to that with which he 
himself is now suffering. 
“I have in my kennel about forty dogs; hence, 
f write to ask particularly as to the nature of 
the malady, manner of the attack, and charac¬ 
ter of the symptoms. 
“Is abundant saliva one of the symptoms, 
and does the lining of the mouth indicate saliva- 
tron. Does the throat swell so that the dog 
cannot take nourishment except in a liquid 
form, and does the animal finally begin to pass 
