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Fire, use of, "by the Indian in hunting the buffalo, 



202. 

 Fischer^ Prof., on a Bison ^^atifrons " from Siberia, 



18. 



Fletcher, J. E., on destruction of the buffalo in 



Northern Dakota, 155, 156. 



Florida, early enumerations of the animals of, 77, 79, 

 101 ; buffaloes probably never found in the pres- 

 ent State of, 97-101 ; former vast extent of, 97 

 (footnote) ; buffaloes reported as found in, 97, 98, 

 99, 100 ; possible occurrence of, in about 1700, 225. 



Forbes, occurrence of the buffalo in Florida reported 



by, 98. 

 Fort Abercronibie, D. T., buffaloes near, in 1858, 156. 

 Belknap, Texas, reference to absence of buffa- 

 loes near, in 1852, 137. 

 Benton, remains of buffaloes west of, 157. 

 Carlton. See Carlton Rouse. 

 Concho, Texas, references to buffaloes near, 138, 



140, 141. 

 Dodge, Kan., great destruction of buffaloes near, 



153, 177, 178. 

 EUice, H. B. T., buffaloes near, in 1858, 170, 171. 

 Garry, buffaloes at, in 1818, 172. 

 Harker, Kan., buffaloes near, in 1866, 147. 

 Hays, Kan., buffaloes near, in 1871, 152. 

 Kearney, reference to abundance of buffaloes 



near, in 1866, 146. 

 Earned, reference to buffaloes near, in 1846, 144. 

 Leavenworth, reference to buffaloes near, in 



1843, 146. 

 McKavitt, Texas, reference to buffaloesnear, 138. 

 Moore, S. C, buffaloes near, in 1750, 94. 

 Felly, H. B. T., buffaloes near, in 1859, 171. 

 Eidgely, Minn., buffaloes near, in 1847, 143. 

 Sill, range of buffalo near, 148. 

 Terrett, Texas, reference to absence of buffaloes 



near, in 1852, 137. 

 Union, Mont, buffaloes near, 157, 161. 

 Worth, Texas, reference to absence of buffaloes 

 near, in 1852, 137. 

 Fremont, J. C, on the distribution of the buffalo 

 west of the Eocky Mountains, 120, 121 ; abun- 

 dance of buffaloes found by, at Grand Isle, Neb., in 

 1842, 146 ; statistics of the trade in buffalo-robes, 

 185 ; occurrence of buffaloes on the North Platte, 

 148 ; do. in the Colorado Parks, 150. 

 French, B. F., on the extent of Florida in the six- 

 teenth century, 131 (footnote). 

 Frenchman's Creek, the eastern limit of range of buf- 

 faloes in 1873, 174. 



Gallatin, Albert, buffalo-routes across the Allegha- 

 nies, 92 ; the Tennessee Eiver as the southern 

 limit of the buffalo east of the Mississippi, 102, 

 114 ; buffaloes in Pennsylvania, 110 ; do. in West 

 Virginia, 111 ; on the wooded and woodless areas 



east of the Mississippi, 115 (footnote) ; on the east- 

 ward migration of the buffalo, 118 ; breeding of 

 the buffalo with domestic cattle, 216. 

 Gallipolis, Ohio, a buffalo killed near, in 1795, 

 230, 



Gallissonniere, M. de la, on the prospective value of 

 the buffalo to the Americans, 198, 199 ; on the 

 probable value of its wool, 198. 



Gannett, Henry, the last buffalo seen about the 



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Great Salt Lake, 119. 

 Gerard, F. F., statistics of the trade in buffalo-robes, 



188. 



Gerrard, Edward, on number of ribs in B. ameri- 



canuSj 2. 



Gervais, Prof. P., reference of all fossil remains of 



bisons by, to B. honasus, 19. 

 Gilbert, Sir.H., supposed reference by, to buffaloes 



in Newfoundland, 79. 

 Glacial Periods an effective cause in determining new 



specific characters among animals, 236. 

 Glen, Gov., reference by, to buffaloes in the Caro- 



linas, 96. 



Goats, wild, reported as fotmd in the eighteenth cen- 

 tury in the valleys of the St. Lawrence, Missis- 

 sippi, in Florida, etc., 88. 



Godfrey, Lt. E. S., on the range of buffaloes in Kan- 

 sas, 174. 



Gomara, his description of the buffalo quoted, 134. 



Gosnold's Voyage, beasts of Virginia in 1602 men- 

 tioned in, 76. 



Graham, George, information received from, 224, 

 230-232; buffalo in Kentucky in 1795, 230; 

 date of extirpation of the buffalo from the region 

 drained by the Ohio Eiver, 231. 



Gray, Dr. J. E., on the characters of the genus Bison, 

 1 ; on the number of ribs in B. americanus, 2 ; on 

 distinctive differences of B. bonasus and B, ameri- 

 canus, 43. 



Gregg, on abundance of buffaloes in Texas in 1840, 

 130 ; on buffaloes in Arkansas and Missouri, 142 ; 

 on the wanton destruction of the buffalo, 183, 



Groger, Lt., buffaloes on the Upper Missouri in 

 1853, 157. 



Gunnison, Capt., buffaloes in Kansas in 1853, 147. 



Hakluyt, enumeration of the "beastes of Florida," 



77. 

 Hamlin, Prof. C. E., information received from, 223. 

 Hariot, Thomas, beasts of Virginia in 1587, 76, 79. 

 Harlan, Dr. Eichard, description by, of B, latifrons, 5, 



17 ; bison remains erroneously referred by, to the 



genus S'lts, 18. 

 Harlanus, a genus erroneously based on remains of 



Bison lafifrons, 3, 19. 

 Havden, Dr. F. V., buffaloes on the sources of Snake 

 Eiver, 125 ; buffaloes in Kansas in 1858, 147 ; 

 near Pike's Peak and in South Park in 1875, 149 ; 





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