OFFICERS OF THE L. A. S. 



Dr. C. Hart Merriam is known to every 

 scientist in the world. He was born in 

 1855; studied in Sheffield Scientific School 

 of Yale College (class of 1877), and grad- 

 uated in medicine February, 1879 (College 

 of Physicians and Surgeons, New York 

 City). He was appointed Naturalist of 



Dr. C. HART MERRIAM, 



FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT, L. A, S. 



Hayden's Survey in 1872 (working in Utah, 

 Idaho, Montana and Wyoming) ; Assist- 

 ant on U. S. Fish Commission in 1875; 

 published his " Birds of Connecticut " in 

 1877: and the concluding part of his book 

 " Mammals of the Adirondacks " in 1885, 

 and in the same year took charge of the 

 newly established Division of Ornithology 

 and Mammalogy, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture — now the Biological Survey — 

 where he has remained ever since. 



In carrying on the work of the Biologi- 

 cal Survey he spends part of every year in 

 zoological explorations in the far West. In 

 the winter and spring of 1890-91 he had 

 charge of the " Death Valley Expedition "; 

 and in summer of 1891 he and Professor T. 

 C. Mendenhall were appointed Bering Sea 

 Commissioners and sent to the Probilof 

 Islands. Alaska. 



He has published about 300 papers on 

 Zoological and Botanical subjects, the most 

 important of which are: "The Birds of 

 Connecticut," 1877; " Mammals of the Ad- 

 irondacks." 1882-84; " Results of a Bio- 

 logical Survey of San Francisco Mountain 

 Region and Desert of Little Colorado, 

 Arizona," 1890; "The Geographic Distri- 

 bution of Life in North America," 1892; 



" Distribution of Trees and Shrubs in Des- 

 erts and Desert Ranges of California, Ne- 

 vada and Utah," 1893; " Laws of Tempera- 

 ture Control of the Geographic Distribu- 

 tion of Terrestrial Animals and Plants," 

 1894; " Monographic Revision of the Pock- 

 et Gophers (Geomyida j )," 1895; " Revision 

 of the American Shrews (genera Blarina, 

 Notiosorex and Sorex)," 1895. 



Has been President of Linmean Society 

 of New York, Lewis County (New York) 

 Medical Society, and the Biological Soci- 

 ety of Washington. Is now Vice-President 

 of the National Geographic Society and 

 League of American Sportsmen. Is editor 

 of Biological Society's Proceedings, As- 

 sociate editor National Geographic Maga- 

 zine, and Zoological editor of Science. 



Ernest Seton Thompson's name is a home 

 word to all readers of Recreation. His 

 pictures and his stories are talked of and 

 quoted by every camp fire in America. He 

 lived for several years on the Plains of 

 the Assiniboine, in 1882. In a log shanty, 

 on the big plain, he grew up with his 

 brother. Farming in a small way procured 

 the necessities of life, but Ernest spent most 

 of his time in hunting, trapping, and study- 



E. S. THOMPSON, 



SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT. 



ing the denizens of forest and plain. He 

 never cared so much for killing things — 

 what he wanted was to preserve the life of 

 the wild creatures in oil or in plaster. 



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