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great help to the taxidermists and the artist. The assistance 

 rendered by the Bureau of Fisheries and by Doctors Heath and 

 Hanna is greatly appreciated by the Academy. 



The Fur-Seal Group was prepared by Mr. Paul J. Fair, as- 

 sisted by Mr. Arthur L. Reed, The background was painted 

 by Charles Bradford Hudson. An inspection of this group 

 shows that both taxidermists and artist did their work well. 

 The group is very realistic and gives one a glimpse into the 

 wonderful life-history of this really wonderful animal. 



Roosevelt Elk Group. — This group occupies the first case on 

 the right of the main entrance to the California mammal hall. 

 It consists of one very large bull, one spike, two cows, and one 

 Qalf. The animals were secured on the Hoh River in the Olym- 

 pic Mountains, Washington, by Mr. C. J. Albrecht, director of 

 vertebrate exhibits in the Museum of the University of Wash- 

 ington, Seattle. 



The scene is a beautiful one. It shows the animals in the fall 

 of the year on a grassy slope at the edge of a typical redwood 

 forest such as one may see in northwestern California. The 

 animals are on the grassy slope in the foreground ; the old bull 

 is bugling to a rival bull somewhere in the distance. In the 

 background to the right is a dense redwood forest through 

 which the sunlight shows very beautifully, wftiile to the left 

 several more or less barren mountain ranges are shown, increas- 

 ingly higher in the distance. Altogether, the picture is an ex- 

 ceedingly beautiful one and the group is regarded as one of the 

 most impressive and instructive that has been completed. 



The Roosevelt Elk inhabits the dense coniferous forests of 

 the humid Pacific coast from near the northern end of Van- 

 couver Island southward through the coast ranges of Washing- 

 ton and Oregon to northwestern California. Its present center 

 of abundance is in the almost inpenetrable forests of the Olym- 

 pic Mountains west of Puget Sound. It formerly probably 

 ranged along the California coast as far south as Marin County, 

 and a few are still left in the northwest corner of the state. 

 Apparently its range never extended eastward to connect with 

 that of the Rocky Mountain Elk (the species which is still com- 

 mon in northwestern Wyoming), w<hich is a fact of great im- 

 portance to the student of geographic distribution. 



