of Mr. Madison Grant, in recognition of his interest in securing the funds for carry- 

 ing on the work. 



The journey from Homer to the western end of the Alaska Peninsula, of nearly 

 a thousand miles, was made when the season was far advanced and navigation 

 dangerous. But so strongly convinced was Mr. Stone that the form of Caribou 

 inhabiting this remote point would prove of especial interest that he was willing, 

 on account of his comparative nearness to the locality, to risk the chances of the 

 trip. Unfavorable weather caused a delay of ten days in reaching the mainland 



Fig. 25. NORTHERN GRIZZLY. 



Adult female and male cub killed in the Sheslay Mountains, Northwest British Columbia, 

 late in August, 1902. 



from Sand Point, Popoff Island, only twelve miles distant, but the time was well 

 improved in forming a large collection of the peculiar Shrews and Voles of this 

 small island, then only recently described and unrepresented outside of the Na- 

 tional Museum at Washington. The Caribou, as already noted, proved to be a 

 strikingly distinct type. Five of the fourteen specimens have been mounted for 

 a group, as shown in the accompanying illustration (Fig. 38, p. 24). 



The season of 1902 was spent mainly in northern British Columbia, Mr. Stone's 

 chief assistant being Mr. M. P. Anderson, a student of Leland Stanford University. 

 Mr. Stone, however, first visited the Alaska Peninsula in quest of the big Brown 



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