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ment, which is going on not only in the 
United States but all over the world. 
As a beginning it was decided by the Ex¬ 
ecutive Committee to raise, before the first 
of January, 1911, by subscription, the sum of 
$250,000 — and with the assistance of the 
friends of the society, this amount was se¬ 
cured. 1 he income derived from this initial 
sum of $250,000 will do little more than en¬ 
able the society to comfortably carry on its 
work on the present basis, without any en¬ 
largement or extension, but it is hoped that 
this amount will soon be increased through 
special subscriptions, and through bequests, 
until the sum of at least one million dollars 
Js reached. The income from a million dollars 
would enable the society to greatly extend its 
work. 
The thanks of the society and of the City 
of New York are due the subscribers to the 
fund, whose generosity has made this splendid 
beginning of the fund. Their names are as 
follows: 
Samuel Thorne . 
. $25,000 
Jacob H. Schiff. 
25,000 
George F. Baker . 
25,000 
Cleveland H. Dodge.. 
25,000 
J. Pierpont Morgan.... 
20,000 
Est. Phoebe Anna Thorne.. 
10,000 
Ogden Mills . 
10,000 
Levi P. Morton 
10,000 
Percy R. Pyne. 
10,000 
Edward S. Harkness . 
5,ooo 
Andrew Carnegie. 
5,000 
Miss Emily Trevor 
5,ooo 
A Friend. 
5,ooo 
Samuel P. Avery . 
5,000 
Frank K. Sturgis. 
5,ooo 
John L. Cadwalader. 
5.000 
George C. Clark . 
5,ooo 
George W. Perkins. 
5.000 
Robert S. Brewster 
5,ooo 
Henry A. C. Taylor . 
5,000 
John D. Archbold ... 
5,000 
Frederick G. Bourne... 
5.000 
Charles F. Dieterich. 
5.000 
George J. Gould. 
5,ooo 
Hugh J. Chisholm. 
5,ooo 
Airs. F. F. Thompson... 
5,ooo 
Lispenard Stewart. 
2,500 
Aliss Serena Rhinelander... 
2,500 
Grant B. Schley. 
2,500 
F. Augustus Schermerhorn. . 
1,000 
Walter B. James. 
1,000 
Aliss Helen Miller Gould.. 
1,000 
Aliscellaneous 
1,055 
mg its name, in fact is far more than a local 
organization. It belongs to the whole country 
and its purpose is to work for the whole 
country. Many methods suggest themselves 
as to how this may be done, but just how the 
thing will work itself out is as yet unknown. 
It is a fortunate thing for the United States 
that so great and so popular an institution as 
this is determined to offer its services to the 
country at large. 
It was at the seventeenth annual meeting of 
the New York Zoological Society that the an¬ 
nouncement of this endowment fund was made 
by Madison Grant. The meeting was held in 
the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel the night of Jan. 10, 
THE OWL. 
Photographed by Mr. Smith. 
and Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn presided. In 
his report as chairman of the executive com¬ 
mittee, Mr. Grant laid special emphasis on the 
advantages to members of the society’s new 
Administration Building and on the importance 
of the National Collection of Heads and Horns. 
He also made an earnest appeal for the pro¬ 
posed new Aquarium in Battery Park, funds for 
which the city will be asked to provide; and 
spoke of the efforts that are being made to se¬ 
cure additional protection for birds. 
On this subject Frank M. Chapman submitted 
the following resolution: 
logical Society urge the various States in the 
Union, particularly along the main routes of 
migratory birds, to unite in uniform laws for 
the conservation of the wildfowl of America. 
Another resolution presented by Mr. Chap¬ 
man is as follows: 
\\ hereas, it has been generally asserted in the 
public press that certain commercial interests in 
the city of New York will endeavor at the com¬ 
ing session of the Legislature of the State to re¬ 
peal Section 98, Chapter 24, of the Laws of the 
State of New York, restricting the sale of the 
plumage of wild birds, and Section 241, Chapter 
24, relating to the possession and sale of game 
birds during the close season, and 
Whereas, the market hunters of Long Island 
ha\e declared publicly their intention of secur¬ 
ing the repeal of Section 170, Chapter 24, of the 
Laws of the State of New York, prohibiting the 
spring shooting of wildfowl, and 
Whereas, the laws as they now stand are bare¬ 
ly sufficient for the protection of our wild birds, 
Now', therefore, be it resolved, that the New 
\oik Zoological Society does hereby condemn 
ain attempt to modify the existing statutes in 
the aforesaid manner, and be it 
Further Resolved, that the officers of the Zoo¬ 
logical Society be instructed to take such steps 
as may, in their judgment, be most effective 
to provide for the maintenance of the existing 
provisions of law for the protection of the birds 
of this State. 
Curiosities of Evolution. 
New \ ork, Jan. 3. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
Have naturalists any theory as to the formation 
of the eyes on the wings of the tiger moth? 
Seen at a distance, these have the most wonder¬ 
ful resemblance to a tiger glaring from a trop¬ 
ical jungle. I have puzzled my head trying to 
imagine how they came to be formed. Of 
course, it is a case of evolution, but what was 
the primal impulse or cause? That is the 
question. 
Another curious phenomenon is the mark on 
the breast of the bleeding heart pigeon. It re¬ 
sembles exactly a dagger wound. Can any in¬ 
genious naturalist throw a little Tight on these 
marvels of evolution? They cannot have been 
merely fortuitous or the work of chance. The 
resemblance is altogether too perfect for that. 
Frank Moonan. 
An Owl Attends a Lodge Meeting. 
$256,555 
The possession of this fund and of the 
greater fund of which it is believed this is 
only the beginning, will make it possible for 
the New York Zoological Society to accom¬ 
plish a great work in science and in econom¬ 
ics. Preparations are on foot when the city 
shall have provided means for changing the 
Aquarium buildings, to establish on one of the 
upper floors a great marine biological labor¬ 
atory, which should take its place among the 
best in the world. 
The Zoological Society has already shown 
its interest in the nation’s welfare by 
stocking the Wichita National Game Pre¬ 
serve with buffalo. The society, notwithstand- 
W hereas, the widely diversified statutes of the 
various States of the Union relative to the pro¬ 
tection of wildfowl are entirely inadequate for 
the preservation of game birds, and 
Whereas, many species of birds in their an¬ 
nual migrations traverse the entire length of the 
U nited States, and pass through many distinct 
jurisdictions wherein the laws vary greatly, with 
the result that the birds are unduly persecuted 
and are drifting rapidly toward the verge of- ex¬ 
tinction, 
Now, therefore, be it resolved, that the New 
York Zoological Society urge Congress to pro¬ 
vide by Federal statutes for the protection of 
these birds, and be it 
Further Resolved, that if this course should 
be found impracticable, that the New York Zoo¬ 
South Norwalk, Conn., Jan. 5 .—Editor 
Forest and Stream: The Acadian owl that I 
had in captivity for a day flew into the lodge 
room of an order holding a meeting in Norwalk, 
Wednesday evening, Dec. 7. The owl was very 
tame and the first thing that he did was to fly 
and alight on the head of a redtail hawk that 
I had mounted, and he sat there and allowed me 
to take his picture. Wilbur F. Smith 
Mr. Pinchot on Conservation. 
At the Hotel Astor, New York city, last night, 
the North Carolina Society held a banquet, at 
which Gifford Pinchot spoke on “Conservation,” 
with particular reference to the proposed Appa¬ 
lachian forest reserve. 
