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It was a matter of congratulation, however, that Mr. Clyde L. Patch, Dominion 

 taxidermist, was able to take an active part in the investigation. Hearing from the 

 chairman that an attempt was to be made to secure a large number of sea-lions 

 (including, it was hoped, the California species), Mr. Taverner, zoologist of the Royal 

 Victoria Museum, Ottawa, supported by the Director of the Geological Survey, Dr. 

 E. G. McConnell, offered to send a skilled taxidermist, with a view to saving all 

 skeletons and skins for permanent preservation as a mounted group. Mr, Patch 

 co-operated heartily in the work of collecting specimens, and, in spite of very adverse 

 weather conditions, secured the desired parts of fourteen individuals, together with 

 data as to sex and size. He also made plaster easts of various parts, to be utilized 

 when mounting these specimens. 



MAP 



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BARKLEY SOUIiD 

 REGION 



On arriving at Kildonan, a short distance inside of Uchucklesit inlet, on December 

 16, it was found that the herring and their pursuers were no longer there; they had 

 been for some weeks, but had passed out into the sound. Native hunters were secured, 

 and a small gasolene fish-boat was hired, in preference to the large craft, the loan 

 of which was offered by Mr. Martin. The two Indians were armed with rifles and 

 Avith the ordinary fur-seal spears of the west coast, in order to retrieve the bodies 

 of any wounded individuals. Independent Indian hunters were also promised a 

 certain sum for every sea-lion they could secure. 



