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PREFATORY
Recently meeting an old friend, in the person of M r .
Charles Mair, of Lethbridge, i was informed by him that
he was shortly bringing out what I believe will prove
an interesting narrative of the Athabasca and Mackenzie
River Native Treaty Expedition of 1899. After some conversation
on the subject, we concluded that certain published
Notes of mine on the Birds and Mammals, incorporated
therewith, might probably have the effect of inciting the ambition
of some Canadians i n emulating the good example set
them by many of the officers of the Hudson's Bay Company
and others i n the way of making similar exertions on s i m i l ar
lines, and thus contributing to the Natural History of their
great Dominion. We also hoped that the Federal Government
might be induced to do all that was possible to
encourage this laudable course, which, if followed by the
Ministerial Executive of the several Provinces, would certainly
go far i n this very desirable direction. The National
Museum at the Capital is without doubt a credit to the
authorities, but i f the people wish to own such an institution
as they might and ought to have, then every effort should be
put forth i n order to secure, first, the filling up of the many
gaps i n the catalogues of well- known species, which are still
unrepresented therein; and, next, the continuation of the
good work, for the reason that very much w i l l have to be
accomplished before our Canadian Fauna becomes satisfactorily,
far less exhaustively ascertained, and the result
of future explorations duly communicated to the scientific
world.
These Notes were originally intended, as already indicated,
as a continuation addition to the Paper of 1891 on
151
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| OCR | PREFATORY Recently meeting an old friend, in the person of M r . Charles Mair, of Lethbridge, i was informed by him that he was shortly bringing out what I believe will prove an interesting narrative of the Athabasca and Mackenzie River Native Treaty Expedition of 1899. After some conversation on the subject, we concluded that certain published Notes of mine on the Birds and Mammals, incorporated therewith, might probably have the effect of inciting the ambition of some Canadians i n emulating the good example set them by many of the officers of the Hudson's Bay Company and others i n the way of making similar exertions on s i m i l ar lines, and thus contributing to the Natural History of their great Dominion. We also hoped that the Federal Government might be induced to do all that was possible to encourage this laudable course, which, if followed by the Ministerial Executive of the several Provinces, would certainly go far i n this very desirable direction. The National Museum at the Capital is without doubt a credit to the authorities, but i f the people wish to own such an institution as they might and ought to have, then every effort should be put forth i n order to secure, first, the filling up of the many gaps i n the catalogues of well- known species, which are still unrepresented therein; and, next, the continuation of the good work, for the reason that very much w i l l have to be accomplished before our Canadian Fauna becomes satisfactorily, far less exhaustively ascertained, and the result of future explorations duly communicated to the scientific world. These Notes were originally intended, as already indicated, as a continuation addition to the Paper of 1891 on 151 |
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