Part 23

1. To promote manly sport with the rifle.

2. To promote travel and exploration in the wild and unknown, or but partially known, portions of the country.

3. To work for the preservation of the large game of this country, and, so far as possible, to further legislation for that purpose, and to assist in enforcing the existing laws.

4. To promote inquiry into, and to record observations on the habits and natural history of, the various wild animals.

5. To bring about among the members the interchange of opinions and ideas on hunting, travel and exploration; on the various kinds of hunting-rifles; on the haunts of game animals, etc.

Article III.

No one shall be eligible for membership who shall not have killed with the rifle in fair chase, by still-hunting or otherwise, at least one individual of one of the various kinds of American large game.

Article IV.

Under the head of American large game are included the following animals: Bear, buffalo (bison), mountain sheep, caribou, cougar, musk-ox, white goat, elk (wapiti), wolf (not coyote), pronghorn antelope, moose and deer.

Article V.

The term "fair chase" shall not be held to include killing bear, wolf or cougar in traps, nor "fire-hunting," nor "crusting" moose, elk or deer in deep snow, nor killing game from a boat while it is swimming in the water.

Article VI.

This Club shall consist of not more than one hundred regular members, and of such associate and honorary members as may be elected.

Article VII.

The Committee on Admissions shall consist of the President and Secretary and the Chairman of the Executive Committee. In voting for regular members, six blackballs shall exclude. In voting for associate and honorary members, ten blackballs shall exclude. Candidates for regular membership who are at the same time associate members shall be voted upon before any other.

Article VIII.

The Club shall hold one fixed meeting a year, to be held the second Wednesday in January, and to be called the annual meeting.

Article IX.

This Constitution shall not be changed, save by a four-fifths vote of the members present.

Officers of the Boone and Crockett Club 1895

_President._

Theodore Roosevelt, New York.

_Secretary and Treasurer._

George Bird Grinnell, New York.

_Executive Committee._

W. A. Wadsworth, Geneseo, N. Y. Archibald Rogers, Hyde Park, N. Y. Winthrop Chanler, New York. Owen Wister, Philadelphia, Pa. Charles Deering, Chicago, Ill.

_Editorial Committee._

Theodore Roosevelt, New York. George Bird Grinnell, New York.

List of Members of the Boone and Crockett Club

* Deceased.

Lieut. Henry T. Allen, Washington, D. C. Capt. Geo. S. Anderson, Yellowstone Park, Wyo. F. H. Barber, Southampton, L. I. D. M. Barringer, Philadelphia, Pa. Hon. T. Beal, Washington, D. C. Albert Bierstadt, New York. W. J. Boardman, Cleveland, Ohio. Wm. B. Bogert, Chicago, Ill. Hon. Benj. H. Bristow, New York. Wm. B. Bristow, New York. A. E. Brown, Philadelphia, Pa. Major Campbell Brown, Spring Hill, Tenn. Col. John Mason Brown,* Louisville, Ky. W. A. Buchanan, Chicago, Ill. H. D. Burnham, Chicago, Ill. Edw. North Buxton, London, Eng. H. A. Carey,* Newport, R. I. Royal Carroll, New York. Judge John Dean Caton,* Ottawa, Ill. J. A. Chanler, New York. W. A. Chanler, New York. Winthrop Chanler, New York. Frank C. Crocker, Portland, Me. A. P. Gordon-Cumming, Washington. D. C. Chas. P. Curtiss, Boston, Mass. Paul J. Dashiell, Annapolis, Md. E. W. Davis, Providence, R. I. Chas. Deering, Chicago, Ill. H. C. de Rham, New York. W. B. Devereux, Glenwood Springs, Colo. Col. Richard Irving Dodge, Washington, D. C. Dr. Wm. K. Draper, New York. J. Coleman Drayton, New York. Capt. Frank Edwards, Washington, D. C. Dr. D. G. Elliott, Chicago, Ill. Maxwell Evarts, New York. Robert Munro Ferguson, New York. J. G. Follansbee, San Francisco, Cal. Frank Furness, Philadelphia, Pa. W. R. Furness, Jr., Jekyll Island, Brunswick, Ga. Jas. T. Gardiner, Albany, N. Y. John Sterett Gittings, Baltimore, Md. George H. Gould, Santa Barbara, Cal. De Forest Grant, New York. Madison Grant, New York. Gen. A. W. Greely, Washington, D. C. Geo. Bird Grinnell, New York. Wm. Milne Grinnell, New York. Arnold Hague, Washington, D. C. Hon. Wade Hampton, Columbia, S. C. Howard Melville Hanna, Cleveland, Ohio. Major Moses Harris, Washington, D. C. Maj. Gen. W. H. Jackson, Nashville, Tenn. Dr. Walter B. James, New York. Col. Jas. H. Jones, New York. Clarence King, New York. C. Grant La Farge, New York. Alex. Lambert, New York. Dundas Lippincott,* Philadelphia, Pa. Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Washington, D. C. Francis C. Lowndes, New York. Frank Lyman, Brooklyn, N. Y. Geo. H. Lyman, Boston, Mass. Chas. B. Macdonald, Chicago, Ill. Prof. John Bache MacMasters, Philadelphia, Pa. Henry May, Washington, D. C. Col. H. C. McDowell, Lexington, Ky. Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Washington, D. C. Dr. J. C. Merrill, Washington, D. C. Dr. A. Rutherfurd Morris, New York. J. Chester Morris, Jr., Chestnut Hill, Pa. H. N. Munn, New York. Lyman Nichols, Boston, Mass. Jas. S. Norton, Chicago, Ill. Francis Parkman,* Boston, Mass. Thos. Paton, New York. Hon. Boies Penrose, Philadelphia, Pa. C. B. Penrose, Philadelphia, Pa. R. A. F. Penrose, Philadelphia, Pa. W. Hallett Phillips, Washington, D. C. Col. W. T. Pickett, Meeteetse, Wyo. H. C. Pierce, St. Louis, Mo. John J. Pierrepont, Brooklyn, N. Y. Capt. John Pitcher, Washington, D. C. A. P. Proctor, New York. Hon. Redfield Proctor, Washington, D. C. Prof. Ralph Pumpelly, Newport, R. I. Percy Pyne, Jr., New York. Hon. Thos. B. Reed, Portland, Me. Douglas Robinson, Jr., New York. Hon. W. Woodville Rockhill, Washington, D. C. Archibald Rogers, Hyde Park, N. Y. E. P. Rogers,* Hyde Park, N. Y. Elliott Roosevelt,* Abingdon, Va. John Ellis Roosevelt, New York. J. West Roosevelt, New York. Hon. Theo. Roosevelt, New York. Elihu Root, New York. Bronson Rumsey, Buffalo, N. Y. Lawrence Rumsey, Buffalo, N. Y. Dean Sage, Albany, N. Y. Alden Sampson, Boston, Mass. Hon. Carl Schurz, New York. Philip Schuyler, Irvington, N. Y. M. G. Seckendorf, Washington, D. C. Dr. J. L. Seward, Orange, N. J. Gen. Phil. Sheridan,* Washington, D. C. Gen. W. T. Sherman,* New York. Chas. F. Sprague, Boston, Mass. Henry L. Stimson, New York. Hon. Bellamy Storer, Washington, D. C. Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, New York. Frank Thompson, Philadelphia, Pa. B. C. Tilghman, Philadelphia, Pa. T. S. Van Dyke, San Diego, Cal. Hon. G. G. Vest, Washington, D. C. W. A. Wadsworth, Geneseo, N. Y. Samuel D. Warren, Boston, Mass. Jas. Sibley Watson, Rochester, N. Y. Maj. Gen. W. D. Whipple, Norristown, Pa. Chas. E. Whitehead, New York. Caspar W. Whitney, New York. E. P. Wilbur, Jr., South Bethlehem, Pa. Col. Roger D. Williams, Lexington, Ky. R. D. Winthrop, New York. Owen Wister, Philadelphia, Pa. J. Walter Wood, Jr., New York.

Transcriber's Note

Illustrations have been moved near the relevant section of the text.

I have used "=" in the text to denote use of an ornamental font.

[=a] (used in the word, "G[=a]t") represents an "a" with an macron above it.

Inconsistencies have been retained in hyphenation and grammar, except where indicated in the list below. I have left "Colomiaghi" and "Colombiagi" as-is although they may refer to the same location.

Here is a list of the minor typographical corrections made:

- "Zloeem" changed to "Zlooem" on Page 8 - Period added before "577" on Page 24 - "First" changed to "first" on Page 71 - "necesssary" changed to "necessary" on Page 188 - Removed period after "hillside" on Page 273 - "ZLOEEM" changed to "ZLOOEM" in the caption for the illustration following Page 318 - Period changed to a comma after "However" on Page 336 - "cotemporaneously" changed to "contemporaneously" on Page 370 - Quotation mark added after "tributaries." on Page 384 - Comma added after "Penrose" on Page 446