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...discouraged, gloomy and pessimistic," said Dr. William T. Hornaday last week. It was not what he said nor the way he said it, but the reasons which he gave for his feelings that made the Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture sputter with indignation...
...Hornaday has himself been in Government employ. In 1874, he began to serve Henry A. Ward of Rochester, as a naturalist. A couple of years later, he went around the world gathering rare specimens of animal life. When he got back, he founded the Society of American Taxidermists. After eight years of this sort of apprenticeship, he became Chief Taxidermist of the National Museum in Washington. He has hunted for Science in India, the Malay Archipelago and South America. In Montana, he has collected buffaloes for the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. A decade or so ago he became prominent...
...argued that most of the income of the Game Protective Association comes from arms and munitions manufacturers, who had influenced Mr. Burnham, head of an advisory committee to the Government, to object to reduction of the bag limit and the length of the open season. He declared that he (Hornaday) and other members of the advisory committee were but "distinguished rubber stamps," while Burnham maneuvered the Department of Agriculture as he saw fit. "I regard Mr. Burnham's influence over Dr. E. W. Nelson and other high officers of the Biological Survey on game-shooting privileges as completely paramount...
...Hornaday has extremely drastic ideas on the subject of game protection. Our policy is to favor shooting to such an extent as will not cut down the game supply, but will permit a yearly increase. In the case of ducks, Mr. Nelson has shown conclusively that they are not being reduced by the present amount of shooting...
Among the interesting lectures that took place during the past week have been Dr. William Hornaday's lectures on "Our Animal Life and Our Duty Toward It," Mr. J. R. Crawford's lectures on the "Modern English Drama," and the second Trowbridge lecture, delivered Saturday night by Professor Clay, on "Assyrian and Babylonian Art." Among the lectures of importance that have been arranged for the coming week are the first two lectures by Professor Von Der Leyen, the German Exchange Professor from the University of Munich, who is to deliver a series on the "Niebelungen Ring." Professor Kuno Francke, head...