a Moose group, and a White Sheep group. A number of the more interesting 

 of the smaller mammals have also been mounted, and the skulls of the Moose, 

 Caribou, Deer, and Sheep have been prepared for exhibition and hung on the 

 walls of the exhibition hall of mammals. 



While so much northern mammal material has been added to the collection 

 of the American Museum through the Stone Expeditions, especially those of 

 1901, 1902, and 1903, only a comparatively small area was explored, namely, 

 the extreme western end of the Alaska Peninsula, the Kenai Peninsula, the in- 

 terior of northern British Columbia, and the immediate vicinity of Wrangel and 

 Kupreanof Island, southern Alaska. The large game animals, as well as the small 

 animals, of these limited districts are well represented, and the Museum has thus 

 made an excellent beginning toward an adequate collection of the mammals of 

 northern North America. At present it has the finest collection of Caribous 



Fig. 48. .CACHE OF SPECIMENS. 



Cache in which Mr. Stone's collection, made in August, 1898, in the Rocky Mountains west of 

 the Mackenzie, was stored, after being brought out from the mountains, to await transporta- 

 tion by dog sled. The Hudson Bay Company agents at Fort Norman sent Indians and sleds 

 to bring this collection in to the Fort the following winter. The specimens were there crated and 

 forwarded to the American Museum of Natural History, reaching New York two years after 

 they were taken. 



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