PREFACE 



work; also Dr. Frederick C. Shattuck for the 

 photograph of his father and for the letters 

 published in the Appendix. 



The portion of Chapter XII concerning the 

 old stumps at Blanc Sablon has been pub- 

 lished in Rhodora for September, 191 6, and a 

 part of Chapter XIII has been published in the 

 Seventh Annual Report of the Commission of 

 Conservation, Canada, 1916. Chapter XIV 

 was published in The Auk, for 1914. 



In the Index will be found the scientific 

 names of the plants and animals referred to 

 in the text. 



Boston, February, igi8. 



