[69] Congressional Globe (Appendix), second session Forty-second Congress.
[70] Congressional Globe, April 6, 1872, Forty-second Congress, second session.
[71] Congressional Record, vol. 2, part 1, Forty-third Congress, p. 371.
[72] Congressional Record, vol. 2, part 3, Forty-third Congress, first session, pp. 2105, 2109.
[73] I know of no greater affront that could be offered to the intelligence of a genuine buffalo-hunter than to accuse him of not knowing enough to tell the sex of a buffalo “on the run” by its form alone.—W. T. H.
[74] Congressional Globe, Vol. 2, part 6, Forty-third Congress, first session.
[75] Forty-fourth Congress, first session, vol. 4, part 2, pp. 1237-1241.
[76] Forty-fourth Congress first session, vol. 4, part 1, p. 773.
[77] It was the Cree Indians who used to practice impounding buffaloes, slaughtering a penful of two hundred head at a time with most fiendish glee, and leaving all but the very choicest of the meat to putrefy.
[78] It is indeed an unbounded satisfaction to be able to now record the fact that this important task, in which every American citizen has a personal interest, is actually to be undertaken. Last year we could only way it ought to be undertaken. In its accomplishment, the Government expects the co-operation of private individuals all over the country in the form of gifts of desirable living animals, for no government could afford to purchase all the animals necessary for a great Zoological Garden, provide for their wants in a liberal way, and yet give the public free access to the collection, as is to be given to the National Zoological Park.