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288 THROUGH T H E MACKENZIE BASIN
1890- 1891, were shipped direct to the Smithsonian Institution
at Washington, D. C., United States.
The country adjacent to the indicated localities in the
several stated districts is all, in their season, not only
rich in animal life, but also admirably adapted for the
nesting of numerous species of land and water birds, which
have before now yielded valuable returns of material to older
and even later visiting naturalists, while the list under review
is but a mere surface contribution, so that a vast and
very opulent field still remains open for the operations of
many future explorers in this and other interesting departments
of Canadian Natural Science.
Although regrets are useless, yet the writer must be permitted
to state that he has frequently felt that after leaving
the Anderson River, in 1866, where he had the satisfaction
of making the large collection of birds and eggs entered
in a paper on the subject published by the United States
National Museum, Vol. XIV., pages 413- 446, 1891, he
might and ought to have continued at Forts Simpson, Chipewyan,
St. James and Cumberland House, where he was
successively stationed from 1866 to 1894, on a somewhat
similar basis, the fascinating pastime occupation of collection
and observation so well begun and steadily followed there
( Fort Anderson) for several years.
Partly in the hope that it may prove as a warning against
future self- reproach on the part of any one who may neglect
to avail himself of the opportunities pertaining to his official
position and its environment, but chiefly in the wish that
Canadians may always keep in view the desirability, aye,
the necessity, that exists for doing something in the way
of elucidating and otherwise advancing the Natural History
of the great Dominion, I would here once more urge
the Inland and Coast Officers of the Hudson's Bay Company,
together with the many resident Mission and Government
agents, traders, tourists and other travellers, to devote
some of their spare time to this interestingly instructive and
creditable pursuit.
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| OCR | 288 THROUGH T H E MACKENZIE BASIN 1890- 1891, were shipped direct to the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, D. C., United States. The country adjacent to the indicated localities in the several stated districts is all, in their season, not only rich in animal life, but also admirably adapted for the nesting of numerous species of land and water birds, which have before now yielded valuable returns of material to older and even later visiting naturalists, while the list under review is but a mere surface contribution, so that a vast and very opulent field still remains open for the operations of many future explorers in this and other interesting departments of Canadian Natural Science. Although regrets are useless, yet the writer must be permitted to state that he has frequently felt that after leaving the Anderson River, in 1866, where he had the satisfaction of making the large collection of birds and eggs entered in a paper on the subject published by the United States National Museum, Vol. XIV., pages 413- 446, 1891, he might and ought to have continued at Forts Simpson, Chipewyan, St. James and Cumberland House, where he was successively stationed from 1866 to 1894, on a somewhat similar basis, the fascinating pastime occupation of collection and observation so well begun and steadily followed there ( Fort Anderson) for several years. Partly in the hope that it may prove as a warning against future self- reproach on the part of any one who may neglect to avail himself of the opportunities pertaining to his official position and its environment, but chiefly in the wish that Canadians may always keep in view the desirability, aye, the necessity, that exists for doing something in the way of elucidating and otherwise advancing the Natural History of the great Dominion, I would here once more urge the Inland and Coast Officers of the Hudson's Bay Company, together with the many resident Mission and Government agents, traders, tourists and other travellers, to devote some of their spare time to this interestingly instructive and creditable pursuit. |
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