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are or hereafter may be exercised and performed l)yachief factor, and particularly to 

 observe all the provisions of the deed of regulations, under the common seal of the com- 

 pany, which bears date the nineteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred 

 and seventy-one, and we do hereby order and direct all our clerks and other servants 

 strictly to obey such oiders as you may think proper to give them in tlie execution 

 of the duties of your ofiice. And you are to observe and follow such orders, from 

 time to time, as you shall receive from us, the governor, deputy governor, and com- 

 mittee of the company, or our successors for the time being, and all orders issued by 

 our chief commissioner or resident governor. 



Given under our common seal at our house in London, this lii'st <lay of June, one 

 thousand eight hundred and seventy-five. 



By order of the governor, dejiuty governor, and committee. 



[sE.\L. «] W. Armit, Secretary. 



3. 



Since the preamble to the foregohio- notes Wiis originally drafted, 

 the writer has obser\ ed with oreat pleasure that Canada, b}' means of 

 her capable and experienced otticials, like the veteran Prof. John 

 Macoun and son, Mr. William Ogilvie, the brothers Tyrrell, and others 

 of the Dominion o-eological survey; l)v zealous missionaries like the 

 Rev. Father ^lorice, O. M. I., of Stuart Lake, Briti.sh Columbia, 

 and the Rev. Mr. Stringer, C. M. S., formerly of Herschel Island, 

 and now of White Horse. Yukon; and by other naturalists like the 

 accomplished Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton, and Mr. Raine of Toronto, 

 has already accomplished a good deal in the very desirable direction 

 therein indicated. The lamented death of Dr. George ISIercer Dawson, 

 director-general of the Geological Survev, however, was a distinct loss 

 to science and his country; l)ut he has been fortunately succeeded by 

 the clever and well informed Dr. Robert Bell, who will probably spare 

 no possible etforts in continuing the good work performed by his able 

 predecessors in office, Sir William Logan, Doctor Selwyn, and Doctor 

 Dawson. I am also glad to see that American naturalists have again 

 come forward to do their good share in the premises. Prof. C. C. Nut- 

 ting, Doctor Smith and Dr. Frank Russell (especialh" the latter, who 

 spent one winter at Grand Rapids, Saskatchewan, and another in the 

 Mackenzie River District) have done nuich in furthering the interests 

 of science and the State University of Iowa; while the brothers Preble 

 of the U. S. Biological Survey at Washington have made an interesting 

 summer journey to the shores of Hudson Bay; and they have also, 

 in the spring of li>o;^, proceeded to Mackenzie River, where I think 

 one or both of them should remain for two or three seasons (Kenni- 

 cott was there from 1859 to 18r»ii), and thereby render invaluable service 

 in the elucidation of obscure points, as well as in collecting new 

 material toward the ultimate completion of the natural history of con- 



« The seal consists of a coat of arms, with motto Pro pelle cutem, around which are 

 the words "Hudson's Bay Company. Incorporated, 1670." 



The original seal is entirely of a blue color and omits the words " Hudson's Bay 

 Company. Incorporated, 1670." — R. McF. 



