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eleven, elk nineteen, Rocky Mountain sheep forty- 

 five, Rocky Mountain goats thirty-four, moose forty, 

 deer sixty, timber-wolves ten, coyotes twenty-four, 

 foxes twenty-five, including some of the rarest silver 

 and cross varieties, lynxes ten, caribou seven, and of 

 otter, beaver, wolverine, fisher, badgers, woodchuck, 

 raccoons, and smaller animals several hundreds. 



While the money value of the collection has never 

 entered into the consideration of the professor, who, 

 with the true instincts of a naturalist, has been wholly 

 engrossed with the collection of the specimens, it 

 would now be impossible to duplicate the collection 

 for $100,000, and as the animals become scarce and 

 rare this value will increase until within a very few 

 years it will be of incalculable worth. Realising 

 that future generations may look to this collection 

 for the study of rare species, the professor aims to have 

 in addition to the mounted groups, which will stand 

 as silent educators to the masses, a student's series 

 which will be of use to the future naturalist who may 

 have no other means of examining an extinct species. 



Nor is the work complete as the collection now 

 stands. The material on hand is to be increased by 

 the results of other expeditions now in contempla- 

 tion, and these specimens are to be the basis of works 

 on the natural history of North America, the first 

 of which, on ruminants, is now in course of prep- 

 aration. 



Other camp-fires will glow in the deepest wilds of 

 British-Columbian mountains while the naturalist 

 wiH seek rare and almost extinct species of that re- 

 gion. Far-off Alaska and even Greenland will bo 



