WILD-ANIMAL ROUND-UP: Stories & Pictures... (First Edn.)

by Hornaday, William T

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NY:: Scribner,, 1925. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends lightly worn; cover tips bumped; otherwise good.. index. With 32 plates of b&w photos. Hornaday (1854-1937), zoologist, first Director of Bronx Zoo 1896-1926. Earlier he had collected specimens in South America, Malaysia, Ceylon, India; & was chief taxidermist at U.S. National Museum. ||| Since 1885 his writings worried that buffalo herd extinction, decimated game bird population, & mindless over-hunting foretold huge changes in wildlife. Here, he adds 1925's thoughts to earlier essays about buffalo-hunting; Montana bad-lands; animal intelligence; elephants; brown bears; mountain goats; grizzlies; musk-oxen; etc. ||| Last 21 pages tell how N.Y. Zoological Society together with N.Y.C. built the Bronx Zoo (1895-1905)--the Park with international reputation.