in the Museum 'Bulletin' in April, 1900: "I therefore feel safe in saying, after 

 my limited personal observations, that the Caribou are the least known of anyjof 

 the more important North American mammals; and that they present a most 

 inviting field for study, with excellent possibilities of ample reward for the labor 

 expended; and I may further add that the time for their investigation is limited. 

 To successfully prosecute such work would necessitate the expenditure of a con- 



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siderable sum of money, and require a vast amount of pluck, perseverance, and 

 patience, and entail on the part of the explorer the endurance of much privation 

 and hardship." 



In the fall of 1900 a short but very successful trip was made by Mr. Stone to 

 the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, to secure for the Museum a good series of specimens 

 of the Alaska Moose, up to this time wholly unrepresented in its collections. He 

 also obtained a single specimen of a new species of Caribou (described later as 



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