PREFACE 
“He traded not with luker sotted, 
He went for knowledge and he got it.” 
The substance of Chapter VIII originally 
appeared in two papers published in the Auk 
in April and July, 1909, and part of Chapter 
IV, in the Auk of April, 1910, and J am indebted 
to the editor for permission to republish in 
this form. I wish to express my thanks to 
Professor M. L. Fernald and Mr. Walter Deane 
for botanical identifications, to Prof. E. C. 
Jeffrey and his assistant Mr. E. W. Sinnott 
for the photograph of the little larch and the 
photomicrograph of its cross-section, and par- 
ticularly to Mr. A. C. Bent for some of the 
illustrations and for his companionship in this 
Labrador Spring. 
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