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ing " Catalogue of Canadian Birds " has proved very useful. 

 Chief Trader B. R. Eoss's " List of Birds and Eggs Observed 

 in the Mackenzie Eiver District," and Dr. Frank Russell's 

 "Explorations in the Far-lSTorth," have not been entirely 

 overlooked. The references to the unfortunate Franklin 

 Expedition have been mainly compiled from Admiral iMc- 

 Clintock's narrative, and from Colonel Gilder's account of 

 the overland journey by Lieutenant Schwatka and himself in 

 search of their relics on King William Island. 



In conclusion, I would here make one or two brief refer- 

 ences to the Anderson and other Hudson's Bay Collections, 

 made by officers of the Company in the earlier sixties of the 

 nineteenth century: — Late in the autumn of 1862, the 

 lamented Professor S. F. Baird, at that time Assistant Secre- 

 tary of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, wrote 

 me that the reading of the List of Birds and Eggs collected 

 on the Anderson, season 1862, was like a dream, as it con- 

 tained a reiteration of species which he had always considered 

 as the " rarest among the rare." This, although good, was 

 but the beginning of that probably unexcelled (individual) 

 Anderson Collection, which that year was put up in ten ; but 

 which for 1865 (our best and last season on Franklin Bay), 

 comprised thirty-five boxes of zoological, ethnological and 

 other objects of iN'atural History. 



I beg to quote from Secretary Henry's Report of the 

 Smithsonian Institution for the year 1866 : " British Amer- 

 ica explorations and collections of specimens by ofilcers of the 

 Hudson's Bay Company, in continuation of those of former 

 years, especially those of Mr. R. MacFarlane, on the Ander- 

 son River; and of Mr. William Brass, at Fort Halkett; 

 James Flett, at La Pierre's House; C. P. Gaudet; at Fort 

 Good Hope; William L. Hardisty, at Fort Simpson; 

 Strachan Jones, at Fort Rae; James Sibbiston, James Mc- 

 Dougall, and Reverend Robert Macdonald, at Fort Yukon; 

 John Reid, at Big Island ; James Lockhart, at Fort Resolu- 

 tion, and Donald Gunn, west of Lake Winnipeg; also in 



