forms of this interesting group, it will be necessary to bring together much more 

 material than is at present available for examination, and there is no time to lose 

 in prosecuting the work, in view of their rapid decrease. 



The Museum fully appreciates its indebtedness to the contributors to the Stone 

 Expedition Fund, and takes pleasure in setting forth in this public acknowledg- 

 ment some account of the important results of Mr. Stone's persistent and well- 

 planned efforts in securing for the Museum such a large amount of well-prepared 

 material, often at the cost of much personal risk and hardship. At the same time 

 it seems proper to make known to the friends of the Museum that this is only a 

 most successful beginning of a work that should be continued. 













Fig. 50. ON THE CARCAJOU RIVER. 



Bringing specimens of White Bighorns to camp, on the Carcajou River, in the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, near the Arctic Circle. Two men are just arriving from a carry of fifteen miles in the 

 mountains, each with a pack of 250 pounds, consisting of skins, with the limb bones and skulls. 

 On this occasion (in August, 1898) Mr. Stone and his party brought 14 complete specimens 

 of the White Bighorn, their camp equipage and hunting outfit at one trip. 



Mr. Stone and his Indians lived in these mountains 150 miles from his base of supplies, sub- 

 sisting entirely on the flesh of the wild sheep they killed for specimens. They had with them 

 only a single piece of canvas for shelter, and when they left the main camp this was left behind 

 for the protection of the specimens already taken, the whole party at such times sleeping where 

 night overtook them, with only the same protection as that of the wild animals they were hunting. 



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