In addition to the specimens of mammals mentioned above, about 100, includ- 

 ing 20 head of Caribou and Sheep, were collected by Mr. Stone on his earlier trips > 

 to the Northwest Territories and Alaska, making a total of over 2400 specimens, 

 representing about 90 species and subspecies, of which 1 5 were first made known 

 to science from Mr. Stone's specimens, and nearly all were entirely new to the 

 Museum's collections. at the time they were received. 



The 600 birds, besides a collection of nests and eggs, obtained mostly on the 

 Kenai Peninsula in 1901 and 1903, formed also a most important addition to 

 the Museum's collection of birds, besides adding two new to science, they forming 

 the chief part of the ornithological material the Museum has as yet received 

 from Alaska. 



In addition to furnishing so much wholly new material for mounting, including 

 small mammals and birds as well as large game, the Stone collections have formed 

 the basis of numerous papers in the Museum 'Bulletin,' aggregating about 240 



Fig. 41. OSBORN CARIBOU. 



A female Rangifer osborni, killed on Level Mountain, Northwest British Columbia, late in 

 September, 1902. This was one of nine animals secured late in the evening a long distance from 

 camp, and which had to be left until the following morning before they could be prepared as 

 specimens. This photograph shows the condition in which the animals were found the next 

 morning a common experience for the collector in such regions. The men in preparing the 

 specimens must bare their hands and arms to skin the partly frozen animals, dragging them 

 from beneath the snow and working on them for hours exposed to wintry blasts. At such 

 times the men suffer extremelv at their work. 



