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To Henry Fainfield Osborn Martinez, California July 16, 1904 Dear Mr. Osborn: In the big talus of letters, books, pamphlets
etc. accumulated on my desk during more than a year's absence I found your Boone and Crockett address and have heartily enjoyed
it. It is an admirable plea for our poor horizontal fellow- mortals, so fast passing away in ruthless starvation and slaughter.
Never before has the need for places of refuge and protection been greater. Fortunately at the last hour, with utter extinction
in sight the Government has begun to act under pressure of public opinion, however slight. Therefore your address is timely
and should be widely published. I have often written on the subject, but mostly with non-effect. The murder business and sport
by saint and sinner alike has been pushed ruthlessly merrily on, until at last protective measures are being called for, partly
I suppose because the pleasure of killing is in danger of being lost from there being little or nothing left to kill, and
partly, let us hope from a dim glimmering recognition of the rights of animals and their kinship to ourselves. How long it
seems since my last visit to Wing-on-Wing how far we have been, I got home a few weeks ago from a trip more than a year long,
I went with Prof, Sargent and his son Robeson through Europe visiting the principal parks, gardens, art galleries etc. From
Berlin we went to St. Petersburg, thence to the Crimea, by Moscow, the Caucasus, - across by Dariel Pass from Tiflis and back
to Moscow. Thence across Siberia, Manchuria etc. to Japan and Shanghai. Preservation of the Wild animals of north America,
Forest au Streau, apr.16,1904, pp 312-313.03409