HORNADAY, WILLIAM TEMPLE Amer ican zoological park administrator was born at Plainfield, Ind., on Dec. .1, 1854. He was educated at the Iowa State college. Having made a special study of zoology, he travelled extensively to collect specimens, visiting Florida, Cuba, the West Indies, South America, India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo. From 1882 to 1890 he was chief taxidermist at the U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C. In 1896 he became director of the N.Y. Zoological Park at The Bronx, New York city, from which position he retired in 1926. He was active in promoting game preserves and instigating legislation for the protection of wild life, having been instrumental in founding the Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund ($105,000). For years he carried on a "war against the gamehogs of the Atlantic coast," in an attempt to preserve from extinction the vanishing species of mammals and birds which supply the legitimate game for North America. It was largely due to his action that the bison was saved from extinc tion on the American continent. He died March 6, 1937.
Hornaday wrote a number of fascinating works on animal life, among which may be mentioned Two Years in the Jungle (i885) ; American Natural History (1904) ; Camp-fires in the Canadian Rockies (1906) ; Our Vanishing Wild Life (1913) ; Minds and Manners of Wild Animals (1922) ; A Wild Animal Round Up Wild Animal Interviews (1928) .