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Notes on Mammals
Among the reasons which led me to prepare this list and
relative notes, together with the paper on the birds and eggs
collected by me and under my direction i n Arctic America,
recently published by the Historical and Scientific Society
of Manitoba, and by the U . S . National Museum at Washington,*
the following may be mentioned: First. I desired
thus to set an example to the fur- trade officers of the Hudson's
Bay Company, which some of them could well follow,
to furnish similar experiences of their own. Secondly, I
further desired to incite the ambition of others, especially
the younger men of the service, stationed at posts on the
G u l f of St. Lawrence, on the sea- coasts of Labrador, Hudson
Bay, and the North Pacific, amid the fertile prairies and
great forests, and on the banks of numerous rivers and lakes
of the vast interior of Old and X e w Canada, to resume and
continue making important additions to the Company's officers'
well- known interesting contributions to the natural
history of their former chartered, licensed, and still occupied
trade territories. Thirdly, I wished that the Smithsonian
Institution might appoint an agent for the purpose of personally
reviving the grand work begun by Robert Kennicott,
i n 1859, and afterwards followed by others, under the auspices
of the lamented Spencer Fullerton B a i r d . Lastly, but
not least, I trust that both papers may eventually aid in
arousing the naturalists of Canada to exert themselves more
f u l l y than ever, not only i n the way of ascertaining the
• Proceedings United States National Museum, XIV, 1892,
pp. 413- 446.
153
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| OCR | Notes on Mammals Among the reasons which led me to prepare this list and relative notes, together with the paper on the birds and eggs collected by me and under my direction i n Arctic America, recently published by the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, and by the U . S . National Museum at Washington,* the following may be mentioned: First. I desired thus to set an example to the fur- trade officers of the Hudson's Bay Company, which some of them could well follow, to furnish similar experiences of their own. Secondly, I further desired to incite the ambition of others, especially the younger men of the service, stationed at posts on the G u l f of St. Lawrence, on the sea- coasts of Labrador, Hudson Bay, and the North Pacific, amid the fertile prairies and great forests, and on the banks of numerous rivers and lakes of the vast interior of Old and X e w Canada, to resume and continue making important additions to the Company's officers' well- known interesting contributions to the natural history of their former chartered, licensed, and still occupied trade territories. Thirdly, I wished that the Smithsonian Institution might appoint an agent for the purpose of personally reviving the grand work begun by Robert Kennicott, i n 1859, and afterwards followed by others, under the auspices of the lamented Spencer Fullerton B a i r d . Lastly, but not least, I trust that both papers may eventually aid in arousing the naturalists of Canada to exert themselves more f u l l y than ever, not only i n the way of ascertaining the • Proceedings United States National Museum, XIV, 1892, pp. 413- 446. 153 |
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