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or station, and in traveling made friends among all classes with an 

 unerring instinct for those with sound fundamental virtues. He 

 was passionately fond of dogs and the only regret he ever expressed 

 in connection with long field tri])s was that he could not take his 

 dog. His favorite dog was a pedigreed English setter, " Chick 

 Stanton," which he had raised from a pup and trained for hunting 

 and field trials. During the long field season when I was intimately 

 associated with him, nothing impressed me more than his love for 

 this dog. When other subjects failed, he was always ready to talk 

 about dogs, and, at times, it seemed as if he loved " Chick Stanton " 

 more than mother, brother, or any human being. That he had a 

 sterner side, strong convictions on many subjects, and great determi- 

 nation, however, was evidenced in many Avays. As a good instance, 

 a misfortune which befell him when he first began collecting mam- 

 mals in Delevan may be cited. While he was slcinning a slightly de- 

 composed skunk, one of his fingers became infected and a bad case of 

 blood poisoning set in. The whole arm was soon affected, discolored, 

 and menacing in appearance to such an extent as to have caused panic 

 in a man not endowed with nerve and determination. The local doc- 

 tors, fearing the possible loss of his life, decided that amputation of 

 the arm at the shoulder was the only safe course. When this infor- 

 mation was given to the patient, he told them that his ambition to be 

 a one-armed man was absolutely nil and that rather than permit 

 them to operate he would take the small chance of life which they 

 offered as the alternative. 



On returning from Alaska in October, 1903, he again went to 

 Delavan and again worked with his father in the store, but a few 

 months later accepted another special detail from February 7 to 

 April 10, 1904, as the representative of the Biological Survey on a 

 hunting trip to Louisiana in company with Mr. W. E. Forbes, of 

 Boston, and the well-known guide, B. V. Lilly. In June of the same 

 year he was appointed to the field staff of the Biological Survey 

 and, with the exception of a short furlough in the spring of 1906, 

 was continuously employed in the field or in Washington until 1910. 

 During this period he made two long field trips. The first began in 

 Promontory, Utah, June 5, 1904, and ended at Magdalena, N. Mex., 

 October 25, 1905. It covered some 40 localities in the States of 

 California, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah. The second lasted 

 from May 6 to November 2, 1909, and was entirely in California. 

 His collections for the Biological Survey reached a total of 3,625 

 mammals and 1,509 birds. 



It was not until mid year in 1906, after his long trip in the West 

 and his subsequent furlough, that he found himself in Washington, 

 authorized to do something for the Biological Survey other than 



