Word: hornaday
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Dates: during 1897-1897
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...meeting of the Natural History held in the Fogg Art Museum last evening to celebrate its sixtieth anniversary was in every way a marked success. There were speeches by Professor Shaler and by Wm. T. Hornaday of the New York Zoological Society, and afterwards a reception to Mr. Hornaday in University...
After a few introductory remarks, Mr. Davenport, president of the society, presented Mr. Hornaday, who made a strong appeal for the preservation of our native wild animals. Mr. Hornaday began by giving evidence of the extermination of such animals as used to be abundant throughout the country. This destruction, he said, is continually going on among all animals, but is especially noticeable among birds. Reports from all sections of the country show that there is a decrease of more than fifty per cent. The number of birds and animals exterminated within a few years is already large, and the prospects...
...causes of this vast destruction, Mr. Hornaday attributed to the absence of popular sentiment against it, and thus to the absence of strict laws, and the enforcement of laws already in existence. Other causes are the destructive habit of collecting among boys and ornithologists, and the ravages of the sportsman and plume hunter...
...privilege to any student to be present at an informal discussion of a practical question of the day, carried on by such men as Judge Holmes and the members of the Economics Department. The meeting of the Natural History Society, with addresses by Mr. Hornaday and Professor Shaler, was no less calculated to arouse a real interest in the minds of its younger members. Each meeting presented its particular branch of study in its most particular light, and as a live issue...
Harvard Natural History Society. Sixtieth Anniversary Meeting. Lecture: The Preservation of Our Native Animals. Mr. W. T. Hornaday. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...