Hornaday, William Temple (1854-1937). Autograph draft in ink and pencil, unsigned, with numerous emendations, to Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922). 4 pp. on 3 sheets, on letterhead of the New Willard Hotel in Washington DC. Washington DC, 3 December 1906. 265 x 202 mm. 2 small marginal tears, small rust-stains from paper clips on first leaf, but very good. From William Temple Hornaday, zoologist, conservationist and the first director of the New York Zoological Park (now known as the Bronx Zoo), to inventor Alexander Graham Bell in Bells capacity as a trustee of the Smithsonian Institutions Board of Regents, nominating zoologist William Jacob Holland (1848-1932) to fill the post of Secretary left vacant on the retirement of Samuel Pierpoint Langley. In choosing Langleys successor, Hornaday urged the Smithsonian to follow the example of Americas industrial magnates: "The American nation is now preeminent in international politics and policies, in mechanical industries, and in agricu