



poleon, who actually projected a rear attack on Canada and 

 Rupert's Land by way of Behring's Straits and the Mackenzie 

 River. This set is a rare memorial. 



THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Everything which the young Society undertook seemed to 

 prosper. One of the oldest friends of Rupert's Land was the 

 great Smithsonian Institution at Washington. Hon. Donald 



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Gunn, a pioneer living near Lower Fort Garry, had made 

 meteorological observations, and collections in natural history 

 for the Smithsonian. Hudson's Bay Company officers had 

 secured bird's eggs, skins of mammals and many other objects 

 for the Washington Institution. Now came the opportunity 

 for reciprocity. The Smithsonian at once responded and has 

 never lost its interest in the Historical Society. Nearly all of 

 its magnificent volumes of Ethnology, Archaeology, and Lin- 

 guistics have been showered upon the Society. In the cramped 

 and insufficient quarters in the .City Hall they stand to-day, 

 numbering no less than five hundred quarto volumes, an im- 

 mense storehouse of most interesting information. 



THE U. S. BOOKS. 



Another good friend of the Historical Society was the late 

 Consul Taylor. His portrait is in the corridor of the City Hall. 

 He was everybody's friend ; but to none had he a warmer feel- 



