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present Secretaries of State for Colonial Affairs, for their kindness in 
forwarding my applications through their department. I have next to 
express my best thanks to the Governor and Committee of the Hud- 
son’s Bay Company, for granting me free access to their museum, and 
to the manuscript accounts of the Fur Countries, in their possession, 
and for the strong recommendations they transmitted to the resident 
Chief Factors and Chief Traders, to forward the views of the Expedi- 
tion, with respect to Natural History. To Mr. Garry, the Deputy 
Governor of that Company, I have to offer my thanks in an especial 
manner, not only for his general kindness and good offices, but for the 
free use of his valuable library, particularly rich in the works of the 
early travellersin America. I have also to mention my deep sense of 
the kindness of the Council of the Horticultural Society, and of Joseph 
Sabine, Esq., Secretary to that Institution, for the opportunity of 
examining and describing Mr. Douglas’s specimens. To Charles 
Koenig, Esq., of the British Museum, I am under much obligation, for 
the facility he afforded me of examining the specimens in that collec- 
tion; and Lam equally indebted to N. A. Vigors, Esq., of the Zoological 
Society, for his aid in the consultation of the museum under his charge. 
I have, lastly, to express my gratitude to Sir John Franklin, and to the 
Officers associated with me under his command. ‘To the former, for the 
kindness with which he embraced every opportunity during the pro- 
gress of the Expedition, of forwarding my views with respect to that 
branch of its objects, which was more particularly intrusted to me; 
and to Captain Back, Lieutenant Kendall, and Mr. Dease, for their 
active assistance in the collection of specimens. Indeed, I may, with 
propriety, embrace this opportunity of saying, that I had the happi- 
ness of being placed under an Officer, who was endowed with the rare 
union of devoted attention to the duties of his profession, and of the 
most sincere attachment to the interests of general science,—and that, 
in him, and in the Officers under his command, I met with kind friends, 
whose agreeable society beguiled the tedium of a lengthened residence 
in the Arctic wilds. 
