
FOUNDERS OF THE AUDUBON SOCIETY 

Dr WILLIAM BRUETTE, Editor 

Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation 



THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL WILL BE TO 
studiously promote a healthful interest in outdoor 
recreation, and a refined taste for natural objects. 
August 14, 1873. 
DR. JAMES ALEXANDER HENSHALL 
R. JAMES ALEXANDER HENSHALL. is 
D dead. The best-known of American anglers, 
and one of the most distinguished author- 
anglers of all times has gone to that “undiscovered 
country from whose bourn no traveler returns,” 
ee has left behind him a world better that he has 
ived. 
Dr. Henshall came.of_a.distinguished Maryland 
family. He was educated in the institutions of his 
state, and after a thorough grounding in the Clas- 
sics and several years of travel, he took up the 
study of medicine, and after graduation settled in 
Cincinnati, Ohio. Later he moved to Oconomowoc, 
Wisconsin, and it was here in the center of a 
beautiful lake region that he began -his study of 
the black bass. This .So. engrossed him that he 
gave up the practice of medicine and devoted his 
entire attention to fish culture, and eventually 
moved to Montana, accepting a position as Super- 
intendent of the United States Bureau of Fisheries 
at Bozeman in that state. 
In 1910 he left Montana to take up a similar 
position in Tupelo, Mississippi, where he lived until 
1917, returning to Cincinnati, where he made his 
home and from there continued his writings. 
Dr. Henshall succeeded in propagating the gray- 
ling. He was the author of the Federal Fisheries 
Plan. It is generally recognized that had it not 
been for his efforts the black bass would have be- 
come extinct in America. 
During his life Dr. Henshall received many 
signal honors, both at home and abroad, among 
them being a medal from the French Government, 
the presidency of the American Fisheries Society, 
the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, the 
Montana Society of Natural Sciences. Dr. Hen- 
shall was Honorary National President of the 
lzaak Walton League of America. 
He was confined to his bed at the time of their 
late convention, but dictated a message which was 
read to the members. 
“Let us continue the good work already begun, 
and not grow weary of well-doing until our work 
and the work of those who succeed us is finished.” 
These few words express with clarity the subtle 
philosophy and indomitable spirit which enabled 
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him to carry on his useful work, despite his im 
paired vision and physical weaknesses. 
Dr. Henshall has been a contributor to FORES 
AND STREAM for half a century, and practically all 
of his books have appeared at one time or anothe 
in our columns. Among these were 
“Camping and Cruising in Florida,” “The Book of 
the Black Bass,” which is recognized as the most 
comprehensive treatise ever written on what he 
termed the “‘gamest fish that swims,” “More About 
the Black Bass,” “Florida Fish and Fishing,” 
Black Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others,” “Ye Gods 
and Little Fishes,” “Favorite Game Fish of Inland 
Waters,” his autobiography, which is now awaiting 
publication, and his “It Is Not All of Fishing to 
Fish,” which is now running serially in our 
columns. 
The name and the works of Dr. Henshall will 
occupy a position in history which will grow 
brighter with the years, for “the good that men do 
lives after them,” and Dr. Henshall’s life was one 
long effort in the cause of conservation. 
ee ne ee ee 
. THE GAME REFUGE BILL i 
HE most important bill in the cause of con- 
servation passed by the late Congress was 
the Upper Mississippi Wild Life and Fish 
Refuge Bill authorizing the appropriation of $1,- 
500,000 for the purchase of overflowed bottom lands 
along’ the Mississippi River, between Wabasha, 
Minn., and Rock Island, IIl. i 
The Agricultural Appropriation Bill for the year 
beginning July 1st makes an appropriation of 
$400,000 so that work on this project can begin im- 
mediately. The bill was sponsored by the Izaak 
Walton League and was introduced in the House 
by Harry B. Hawes, Congressman from Missouri. 
By the passage of this bill, Congress clearly demon- 
strates that it is alive and responsive to the call 
of the country for game refuges and is ready to 
face the situation squarely. It also indicates, as 
we have previously pointed out, that the defeat of 
the Brookhart Game Refuge Bill was due simply 
to the fact that the best judicial and legislative 
minds of the nation are opposed to the creation of 
new federal bureaus to be supported by a new 
system of direct taxation. 
In the past quarter of a century this country has 
accepted many new forms of taxation, both direct 
and indirect. The limit, however, has been reached 
and far- -seeing statesmen, irrespective of party 
lines, recognize the fact that the over-centraliza- 
tion of power in Washington is leading us on 
ously near autocracy. 
In his annual message to the Izaak Walton 
League in Chicago, last month, President Will H. 
Dilg said: “During the past two years I have spent 
a great deal of time in Washington and I have 
more than a passing acquaintance with many of 
the members of the Senate and the House of Repre- 
sentatives, and over and over again I have been 
told by Republicans and Democrats alike that they 
would have twenty times preferred voting for the 
Game Refuge bill if it represented a straight ap- 
propriation as does the Mississippi Fish Refuge 
bill.” It was suggested by Mr. Dilg that Congres 
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