Ill 



FOLLOWERS OF LEWIS AND CLARK 



ALTHOUGH the grizzly bear was thus discovered by 

 Lewis and Clark in 1805, these explorers did not 

 return to civilization until 1807, and even then their 

 zoloogical records were not promptly worked up. It was 

 not, therefore, until 18 14 that any naturalist gave even 

 tentative recognition to the discovery thus made. In that 

 year, on the 4th of May, in his introductory address before 

 the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York, 

 Governor De Witt Clinton, speaking of the work which lay 

 open to the coming naturalists of the country, referred to 

 "the white, brown, or grizzly bear, the ferocious tyrant of 

 the American woods," and spoke of it as "a nonde- 

 script, and a distinct animal from the polar bear, with 

 which it is confounded." It ranged, he said, the country 

 along the Missouri River where "it exists, the terror of the 

 savages, the tyrant of all other animals, devouring alike 

 man and beast and defying the attack of whole tribes of 

 Indians." He then proceeded to call attention to the tra- 

 ditions of the Delaware and Mohican Indians, in regard 

 to the Great Naked Bear, which they believed to have 

 once inhabited the territories of New York State, and to 

 suggest that the bear of this Indian legend was identical 



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