PREFACE 



"He traded not with luker sotted, 

 He went for knowledge and he got it." 



The substance of Chapter VIII originally 

 appeared in two papers published in the Auk 

 in April and July, 1909, and part of Chapter 

 IV, in the Auk of April, 1910, and I am indebted 

 to the editor for permission to republish in 

 this form. I wish to express my thanks to 

 Professor M. L. Fernald and Mr. Walter Deane 

 for botanical identifications, to Prof. E. C. 

 Jeffrey and his assistant Mr. E. W. Sinnott 

 for the photograph of the little larch and the 

 photomicrograph of its cross-section, and par- 

 ticularly to Mr. A. C. Bent for some of the 

 illustrations and for his companionship in this 

 Labrador Spring. 



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