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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS

VOLUME 59, NUMBER 10

IFlational Zooloaical jpatk

FURTHER NOTES ON THE BREEDING OF
THE AMERICAN BLACK BEAR

IN CAPTIVITY

BY

A. B. BAKER
Assistant Superintendent, National Zoological Park

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Battonal Zoolooical park

FURTHER NOTES ON THE BREEDING OF
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BY

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Assistant Superintendent, National Zoological Park

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Tlattonal Zoolo^fcal f>ath

BALTIMORE, MO., U. 8. A.

FURTHER NOTES ON THE BREEDING OF THE AMERI-
CAN BLACK BEAR IN CAPTRTTY

By A B. BAKER

ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT, XAIIOXJlI. ZOCUXaCM. PARK

In 1904 the writer published a brief account of the breeding of
American black bears at Silver Lake Park, near Akron, Ohio, dur-
ing a period of 12 years which ended with January, 1903.' The
breeding of these animals has continncd there up to the present time,
so that data are now available for a period of 21 years, and it seems
worth while to give a further account of Ac matter, in view of the
interest which has recentiy devek^«d in the breeding of fur-beanng

animals.

The place where the bears are kept is a smaU summer resort.
Early in its development a collection of hardy animals was started,
with the central feature a " bear iMt." and the first bears there were
a pair of cubs obtained in 1888, from two diflFerent localities near
Lake Superior. These bred when three and a half years old and
produced their first cub seven months later, oa January 23, 1892.
Thereafter, the pair had young very regularly, missing only five
times in 18 years, with a total of 54, or possibly 35 cu^s. Two
younger females which were aUowed to breed had their first off-
spring in January, 1902 and 1906. They had produced, up to Janu-
ary, 1912, 10 litters with 22 cubs, and 5 litters with 12 cubs. This
gives a total of 68 or 69 cubs in 21 years.

The original pair occupies a dreular brick pH 20 feet across and
12 feet deep which is connected by an underground passage with
another similar pit to which the bears can be transferred when
necessary. The pits are located in a dry hillside which slopes toward
the east The floor is of terra cotta hkxks set in cement, so that
the place can be easily washed out with a hose, and this is frequently
and thoroughly done. There is also a bathing tank in the pit ; and
the brick-lined entrance passage, through which access to the pit is

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had, can be made into a separate compartment for shutting the
bears apart when desired. As more bears were kept, additional ac-
commodations were provided.

An important feature of the bears' quarters is the retiring den,
which provides a suitable place for the animal to hibernate. There
are two of these connected with each pit and one with the entrance
passage. Each den is 5 feet by 6 feet and 4 feet high, lined with
brick. They are excavated in the earth, back several feet from the
pit, and 8 or 10 feeet below the surface of the ground. Each has a
smkll ventilating flue extending to the top of the ground.

The male and female are placed together about June i, and breed
during the last ten days of June and the first week of July. Only
one male has been used for breeding, and the younger females which
have been bred are offspring of the original pair. In all cases, the
first breeding was at three and a half years. Usually all of the
breeding bears are together (luring breeding time, and they are not
separated until ready to go into hibernation.

In the fall the bears become very fat. As cold weather approaches,
large quantities of dry leaves are thrown into the pit, which the
bears carry into the dens. They spend much of their time there,
but come out for an occasional meal till the advent of settled cold
weather, usually about the middle of December, when they finally
retire to the dens for the winter. They generally come out from
hibernation early in March. Each female that is expected to have
young hibernates by herself : the male and a young female remain
together in the pit through the winter.

Mr. W. R. Lodge, manager of Silver Lake Park, states that the
bears have always come out, after hibernating for two or three
months, in practically as good condition as they went in, not even
the females, with cubs a month old or more, showing any thinness.
Nor do they appear to be hungry, for at the first meal they take but
very little food, putting out the tongue and touching the apple,
parsnip or whatever is offered, before biting it ; and it is only after
three or four days, or even a week, that they eat with the usual

appetite.

The young have been born between January 21 and 27, with the
exception of two litters, one February i and the other a day or two
earlier. Their whimpering can be heard through the ventilating
shaft, and this at once gives notice of their presence in the den.
From the very few which have been examined immediately after
birth, it would appear that the weight of new-born cubs ranges be-

NO. ID BREEDING OF AMERICAN BLACK BEAR — A. B. BAKER 3

tween 9 and 12 ounces. They are plump little fellows, with short
velvety hair of a grayish-brown color ; their eyes remain closed from
30 to 40 days, and they do not come out of the den until two months
old or more.

Each family has its own quarters, though the mothers have shown
no inclination to injure each other's cubs when the cubs were play-
ing together on a gate of widely spaced bars which separated them.
The male was twice allowed to be with the family for a short time
in April and did not injure the cubs, though he carried one about,
taking nearly the whole cub into his mouth. During two seasons he
was with the mother and cubs from the first of June, but she then
failed to have young the next winter. When it is desired to have the
mother breed that season, the cubs are taken away in May and
raised by hand. Only milk is fed for the first few weeks, after
which they are gradually accustomed to the mixed diet of the older
bears. The births have been as follows:

Original female, births 1892 to 1909 (no cubs 1910 to 1912) 13

litters, 34 cubs.

2 litters of i cub,

3 litters of 2 cubs,
6 litters of 3 cubs,

2 litters of 4 cubs.

Second female, births 1902 to 1912, 10 litters, 22 cubs.

1 litter of I cub,

6 litters of 2 cubs,

3 litters of 3 cubs.

Third female, births 1906 to 191 1, 5 fitters, 12 cubs.

3 litters of 2 cubs,

2 litters of 3 cubs.

This gives 2 litters of 4 cubs, 11 of 3 cubs, 12 of 2 cubs, and 3 litters
of I cub ; but as one of these last was the first litter produced, and
the male was with the female at that time, he may have destroyed one
or more of the cubs. The two litters of four cubs were from the
oldest female, and each followed a year when she had failed to have

cubs.

Record of the sexes was kept only for the first 9 litters of the
original female, which included 15 males and 6 females.

No cubs have been lost except through accident, and the death of
a bear 20 months old was the only one from disease.

The food which is supplied to the bears is a very good approxima-
tion to the diet which the animal gets in the wild state. Hotel and

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picnic tables of the Park afford a large amount of miscellanecMis
scraps, to which is added an abundance of green food from farms
near by. This begins with dandelion tops in the spring, followed by
clover, green com, watermelons, berries and other fruit. Acorns
are gathered for them in the fall and they then get, also, dried sweet
corn and "windfall" apples. Occasionally a venturesome hen or
pigeon is eaten, but the bears get no other meat except a little that

has been cooked. • •

The time of going into hibernation seems to be determined mainly
by the weather, as the bears do not retire to the dens to stay before
severely cold weather comes. It happened that the month of I>ecem-
ber, 1911, was unusually mild, and they did not finally hibernate until
the first days of January. However, the bears have uniformly been
very fat, and it is probable that, if they were lean, they would not
hibernate steadily, but would come out occasionally to seek food.
The cubs have hibernated about the same as the older bears.

The surplus bears have been disposed of from time to time, most
of them going to animal dealers, when 8 or lo months old, at $25 to
$30 each. The highest prices obtained were $75 for a grown bear
and $50 each, for two cubs. A few were sold for meat when two
years old, bringing from $25 to $30, with skin and head reserved.
For the last eight or ten years, however, there has been sufficient
demand for live cubs to take all the surplus, more than a dozen
having gone on the vaudeville stage ; and there is stated to be a
standing offer of $25 each for future cubs. No skins have been

sold.

The value of black bear fur at the present time is about $25 for
No. I, large northern skins, and 20 to 40 per cent less for those from
middle and southern regions. For ladies' wear, prime silky skins of
cubs and yearlings are preferred, and these are worth up to $15.
It is a very durable fur.

The Messrs. Lodge, of the Silver Lake Park Company, have been
very kind in furnishing information regarding their bears, and this
paper is made up almost entirely from data which they supplied.

Both bears of the original pair, now 24 years old, are still in ex-
cellent health, although the male does not become as fat in the
autumn as he did when younger and the female has had no cobs
for the past three years.

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Asastant Superintendent, National Zoological Park

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The following notes relate to mammals which are rare, or have
seldom been kept in confinement, and it is believed that the observa-
tions on their characteristics and habits will be of interest.

SOLENODON PARADOXUS

Haitian insectivore

During the early summer of 1910, Mr. Franklin Adams, Chief
Clerk of the Pan American Union, made a horseback trip through
the Dominican Republic, accompanied by his wife. Knowing that
the Solenodon which inhabits that island is an animal of unusual
zoological interest, and very sparingly represented in collections, they
kept on the lookout for it, making inquiries wherever they went.
They were fortunate enough to secure several specimens, two of
which they presented alive to the National Zoological Park. One of
these was the subject of the portrait which is reproduced here.

The animal was very restless when taken away from its regular
quarters to be photographed, and in order to secure a picture which
would show the characters of the head and feet, it was necessary to
confine it in a glass box. The position which was taken under these
conditions, and which is shown in the illustration, is not usual, for the
tail is but little flexible and is ordinarily carried stiffly, straight out
behind and clear of the ground, or used as a prop when the animal
rests on its hind feet only.

The illustration (pi. i, fig. 2) is reproduced as showing especially
well the character of the feet of this rather rare insectivore.

LOPHIOMYS IBEANUS

East African rodent

A collection of animals which was received at the National Zo-
ological Park in December, 1909, from British East Africa, contained
a specimen of Lophiomys, of the species later described by Mr. Old-

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field Thomas as L. ibeanus. As will be seen from the accompanying
illustration, the animal is quite different in appearance from the type
species, L. imhausii, as usually figured. The Park is indebted for the
specimen to Mr. G. H. Goldfinch, Assistant Game Warden of British

East Africa.

This species of Lophiomys occurs in the higher part of British
East Africa and is known only to the Wandorobo, a tribe of expert
hunters, who explore every corner of the forests. Mr. Goldfinch
was well acquainted both with the game of that region and with
its animals generally, but this one he knew only from descriptions
given by the natives. At his urgent request they secured two speci-
mens in the forest near Nakuru, at about 8000 feet altitude. These
he forwarded to Nairobi, whence they were shipped with the col-
lection of animals which had been presented to the Park by Mr. W.
N. McMillan of that place. One died at Port Said, while on the way
to America, and the other came through safely.

Mr. Goldfinch states that Lophiomys is arboreal and lives in the
thick forest of the high country, feeding on leaves and tender shoots,
also that the natives are averse to handling the animal, believing its
bite to be poisonous. It is, he says, " very rare or only got by ac-
cident here." In captivity it eats cabbage, sweet potatoes and other
vegetables, and is especially fond of sweet potato leaves and the endive
salad plant. It is strictly nocturnal, and its slow movements are
very suggestive of the Canada porcupine {Erethison dorsatus).

The illustration shows the appearance of the animal when dis-
turbed. It then erects the long hair of its general coat, which parts
along either side, leaving there a deep furrow that extends from
the base of the ear to the root of the tail. The bottom of the furrow is
filled with short and peculiarly modified, spongy hairs. M. Milne-
Edwards, in describing the type-species, stated that he did not know
of any other mammal with hair of a similar structure. When the
animal is quiet the general pelage closes over this band of short hair,
entirely concealing it.

URSUS GYAS

Alaskan brown bear

There is so little information available with regard to the rate of
growth of wild animals that it seems to be worth while to record the
weights of a male Alaska Peninsula brown bear (Ursus gyas Mer-
riam) in the National Zoological Park, which has been weighed at
intervals of about a year for eleven years. The bear was captured
near Douglas Settlement at the western entrance to Cook's Inlet,

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illustration, the animal is quite different in appearance from the type
species, L. imhausii, as usually figured. The Park is indebted for the
specimen to Mr. G. H. Goldfinch, Assistant Game Warden of British

East Africa.

This species of Lophiomys occurs in the higher part of British
East Africa and is known only to the Wandorobo, a tribe of expert
hunters, who explore every corner of the forests. Mr. Goldfinch
was well acquainted both with the game of that region and with
its animals generally, but this one he knew only from descriptions
given by the natives. At his urgent request they secured two speci-
mens in the forest near Nakuru, at about 8000 feet altitude. These
he forwarded to Nairobi, whence they were shipped with the col-
lection of animals which had been presented to the Park by Mr. W.
N. McMillan of that place. One died at Port Said, while on the way
to America, and the other came through safely.

Mr. Goldfinch states that Lophiomys is arboreal and lives in the
thick forest of the high country, feeding on leaves and tender shoots,
also that the natives are averse to handling the animal, believing its
bite to be poisonous. It is, he says, " very rare or only got by ac-
cident here." In captivity it eats cabbage, sweet potatoes and other
vegetables, and is especially fond of sweet potato leaves and the endive
salad plant. It is strictly nocturnal, and its slow movements are
very suggestive of the Canada porcupine (Erethison dorsatus).

The illustration shows the appearance of the animal when dis-
turbed. It then erects the long hair of its general coat, which parts
along either side, leaving there a deep furrow that extends from
the base of the ear to the root of the tail. The bottom of the furrow is
filled with short and peculiarly modified, spongy hairs. M. Milne-
Edwards, in describing the type-species, stated that he did not know
of any other mammal with hair of a similar structure. When the
animal is quiet the general pelage closes over this band of short hair,
entirely concealing it.

URSUS GYAS

Alaskan brown bear

There is so little information available with regard to the rate of
growth of wild animals that it seems to be worth while to record the
weights of a male Alaska Peninsula brown bear (Ursus gyas Mer-
riam) in the National Zoological Park, which has been weighed at
interv^als of about a year for eleven years. The bear was captured
near Douglas Settlement at the western entrance to Cook's Inlet,

May 24, 1901, and was then probably about three and a half months
old. The weights taken are as follows :

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March 11. 1907 970

March 21, 1908 1050

March 5, 1909 960

January 20, 1911 1 160

December 13, 1911 1090

POUNDS

May 24, 1901 18

January 4, 1902 180

January 15, 1903 450

January 18, 1904 625

January 28, 1905 770

February 28, 1906 8^

The bear appeared to be at his greatest weight about December i,
19 10, and would probably have reached or exceeded i^X) pounds
at that time, but could not then be weighed.

The decrease shown by the weighing on March 5, 1909, doubtless
resulted from extensive " corns " on all four feet and their excision
Jtme 15, 1908, which, altogether, crippled the animal for some
months.

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ther§^, Mr, C, C. Laney, Superintendent of Parks at Rochester,
N. Y., writes as follows, under date of February 6;

••Lr • Frank Baker,

Superintendent, National Zoological Park,

Washington, D, C,

Dear Sir:

Your letter of Feb, 4th was received last
evening, and I thank you very much for the advice
in it. Unfortunately, the bears were dead when
your letter arrived. One of the little bears was
weighed and it weighed ^ lbs. They were nearly
all of the same weight; two of them were black and
two were light-colored,* I did not know but that
they would be cinnamon bears. Two were males and
two were females. We had photographs taken and
as soon as I get them I will send you one.

Yours very truly,

C, C, Laney (Signed)

Superintendent of Parks."

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July 29, 1918 •

Dear Dr» Merriam:

Several years ago I published a note regarding the
breeding of black bears in a park at Cuyahoga Palls » Ohio*
I have just learned of the death of the original pair and
thought you might be interested to know the age which they
reached •

The male died in July, 1914, and was then 26i years old*
The female died in November, 1917 » at the age of 29
years and 10 months* She had given birth to 38 cubs.
The male had been the father of 78 cubs*

The owner says of the female "She had been failing
for some time and did not fatten up like the others with the
fall feeding, so we have no reason to attribute her death to
anything but her old age***

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Dr* C* Hart Merriam,

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Sbcrbtary— FRANK BAKER,

Zoological Pakk.

Washington, D. C.

November 5th, 1899

My dear Sir;

As Mr. L. 0. Howard, the Chairman of the Comnittee
on Non- resident Members, Department of Zoology, has
resigned, the President directs that you assume the
Chairmanship of that Committee. Your colleagues will be

P. W. True,

H. G. Dyar.

Very truly yours,

Dr. C. Hart Merriam,

Department of Agriculture,
City.

Secretary

WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Washington, D. C.

PtEsiDBKT— CHAS. D. WALCOTT,

Geological Survey.

SBOtBTAiY— FRANK BAKER,

Zoological Park.

Tkeasuker— BERNARD R. GREEN,

Congressional Library Building.

January 19, 1900*

Sirs

I have the honor to Inform you that at the annual meeting of the
Washington Academy of Sciences held January 17, 1900, you were elected
a Manager of the Academy, Class of 1903,

Very respectfully yours.

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Secretary.

Dr« OklHact Herri^,
1919 16th Street,
City.

WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Secretaiiy: FRANK BAKER,

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Washington, D. C.
Feb. 12, 1903.

My dear Sir,

At a meeting held February 10,
1905 a Coofilttee on Publication was
appointed, consisting of Marcus Baker,
Chairmant C. Hart Merrian, Bernard R«
Oraen, Prank Baker and B. W. Evermann.

Very truly yours ,

Secretary

Dr. C. hart Uerriam,

Bepartmsnt of Agriculture,

wTashlngton, D.C •

WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Secretary: FRANK BAKER,

Zoological Park.

Washington, D. C.

y dear Sir,

At a moetinc held Fehruainr 1^^
3.90:3, a Cons^iittao on the Relatlotis of
the Acadnriv tc ether Oi' i::aticriS was
appoint ort^ cannistitifi of Chas. D« I'alcottt
Chainnan, Carroll !)• WrltAt, C. Hart
Merriam and 0. H. ?i',t.-Lan,

Vary truly yours.

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Secretary

Dr. C. Hart Merriam,

Department of Agriculture,

Washington, D. C.

WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

HIANK BAKER,

ZootooiCAL Park.

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Gbological Survey.

Secretary— FRANK BAKER,

Zoological Park.

Treasurer— BERNARD R. GREEN,

CONCRBSSIONAL LIBRARY BuiLDING.

Washington, D. C.

February 1, 1904.

Dear Sir:

I have the honor to inform you that at a meeting of the
Board of ''Managers of the Washington Academy of Sciences, held on
the 26th ult . , you were duly appointed a member of the Committee
on Membership.

Very respectfully,

Secretary.
Dr. C. Hart Merriam,

No. 1919 Sixteenth St.

WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

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Pkbsidbmt— CHAS. D. WALCOTT,

Geological Survey.

Sbcrbtary— FRANK BAKER,

Zoological Park.

Treasuker— BERNARD R. GREEN,

CONCRBSSIONAL LIBRARY BuiLDING.

Washington, D. C.
Vebruary 1» 1904.

D#*r Sirs

I hmT« the honor to Inform you thmt at % mooting of tho
Board of Managom of tho Waohington Ao«Kloffliy of Soionooo, held
on tho 26th ult.| you woro duly appolntod a mombar of the Committoo
on •Rolatlono to othor Organl«itlono»»*

▼ory roopootfully,

poot:

Dr. C, Hart Merriajn,

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Geological Survey.

Secretary— FRANK BAKER,

Zoological Park.

Trbasurbr— BERNARD R. GREEN,

Congressional Library Building.

Washington, D. C.
February 1, 1904

Dear Sir:

I have the honor to inform you that at a meeting of

the Board of I.Tanagers of the Washington Academy of Sciences, held
on the 26th ult . , you were duly appointed a member of the Committee
on Publications.

Very respectfully,

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Secretary.

Mr. C. Hart Merriam,

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WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Pre«idemt: CHA8. D. WALCOTT,

QeoLOOicAt Survey.

Secretary: FRANK BAKER,

Zoological Park.

Treasurer: BERNARD R. GREEN.

C0NQRE8810NAL Library Buildino.

Washington, D. C.

June 1, 1904.

Sir,

I have the honor to inform you that at a noeting of the Board of

Rfenagers held May 31, 1904, it was ordered that the preparation of a
circular regarding a phonetic conference be referred to a committee of five
to be appointed by the President and that said committee consider and report
upon the v/hole proposition of a phonetic conference as indicated by a
circular and accompanying papers submitted by Dr. Robert Stein.

^e President of the Acadeny has accordingly appointed the
following committee which will meet at the call of the chairs-

Carroll D# Weight - Chairman

?• W» Clarke

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B» W. Evermann
C« Hart ?4erriara

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0. H. Tittmann.

Very truly yourS|

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Dr. C. Hart Merriam,

Department of Agriculture,

Washington, D« C.

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permission to take photographs, collect specimens
and make observations within the Park at any
time and at any place desired.

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Superintendent •

WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

pREttoENT: CHA8. D. WALCOTT,

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Secretary : FRANK BAKER,

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Treasurer: BERNARD R. QREEN.

Washington, D. C.

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Blr,

Z luors tl» honor to infom you thai the

Prosideaat ©f th9 Ac^td^ogr has appointad tho following
C«tB2ltta0 on Piiblicatiofi to sarvat during thi mtnuing

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Dr. C, Hart IlerriaLa,

1919 rixtaanth St. IT. V/.,

City.

WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

SeCReTABv: FRANK BAKER «.

Zoological Park

Wa^iihgton, D. C.

January 19, 1905

Sir,

I have the honor to Inform yoa
that at the annual meeting of the Acadei^j
held January 18, 1906, you were elected a
Manager of Class of 1909.

Very respectfully.

yrciiOc^cKKix.

Dr. C. Hart Merriam,

Department of Agrioilture,

Washington, D.C

WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Secretary: FRANK BAKER

Zoological Park

Washington, D. C.

January 20, 1906.

Sir,

I have the honor to inf orn you

that the President of the Academy has
appointed the following Coroniittee on
Puhlication to serve durinfe the ensuing year:

B» T7. Everrnann, Chairman

C. Hart Merriam

P. V7. Hodge

Prank Baker

Henry Gannett.

The Committee will meat at the
call of the Chair.

Very respectfully,

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Secretary.

Dr. C. Hart Merriam,

Dept. of Agriculture,

Y/ashington, D. C.

WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Secretary: FRANK BAKER

Zoological Park

Washington, D. C.

February 2, 1907.

Sir,

I have the honor to inform you that the

President of the Academy has appointed the following
Cornmittee on Publication to serve during the

ensuing year.

Chair.

B. W. Evemann, Chairman

C, Hart ?%rriam

A. D. Hopkins
Arthur L. Day

Henry Gannett
The Committee will meet at the call of the

^^ery truly yours,

VlCi^-I^C hDoJCi/y^

Secretary.

Dr. C. Hart Merriam,

Department of Africulture,

Washinrrtcn, D. G.

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NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK

My dear Doctor Merriajn,

I think that you will be interested to icnow that the
Park has the three bear cubs about which you were kind enough to
write me on August 18.

Mr. Bales at first asked §1000. for the three cubs,
but upon my stating that we coula not afford to pay so large a
figure. he dropped to $750.00. While this saims like a rather
large price for cubs, at the same time I realizePthat Alaskan bears
are not always to be had and so closed with him at that figure.

The cubs reached here about a v/eek ago in perfect
conoition, except that they are a little too fat. Two of them
look as though they might possibly be YaJcutats, while the third,
which is of a darker color and of a less aistinct brown, has a
"collar" of lighter hair, and this fellow I am unable to place,
I shall be glad to have your opinion of them. All three are males.
The two brown cubs weisrh, respectively, 110 lbs. and 100 lbs,
while the other weighs 94 lbs.

Hoping that you have had a pleasant and profitable
season and that we may have the pleasure of seeing you back in
Washington again, before long, I remain,

Dr, C, Hart Merriajra,

Very truly yours,

Superintenaent ,

2428 Pine Street,

Pan Francisco, Calif,

WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

COfmCSPOMDING SeficTARY :

FRANK BAKER

ZooLooiCAL Park

Washington, D. C.

January 22^ 1909.

Bear Sir,

I have ttie honor to inform you that

at the annual meeting of the Washington Academy
of Soiencea held January 21, you were elected
a member of the Board of Managere^ class of

1911.

Very truly yours >

Corresponding Secretary.
Dr. C. Hart Merriam,

U. S. Dept. of Agriculture^

Washington, D. C.

WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Corresponding Secretary :

FRANK BAKER
d Zoological Park

Washington, D. C.

JanMcry S6^ ^^^9%

Dear Sir,

jt have the honor to Inform you that

the President hae appointed the following

Comnfiittee on Publication for the ensuing year:

S» W, Sverinann, Qhairman
Ii4 %f% Brigge
A« p. Hopkins
Q4 Bart Jlerrlam
Pavid Whltef

The Conamittee will meet at the call

of the Chairt

Very truly yours.

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9w« 0« Bfirt Uerriam,

]>epartment of Agriculture,

Washington, S« C«

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK

WASHINGTON, D. C.

OFFICE OF

8UPCRINTEN0ENT,

NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK

July 7, 1911

Dear Doctor Uorriaa:

Tlie Mixtor "boar that dlod Au«u«t «, 0.^10, wao
the one nhioh they called Pauline. fhie cu^ waa
rece'l^ed at the Park August 4^ llWft. She did not de
veH^ and finally had to 1:>e remoTed to a oiHSe in a
retired place, as ehe persistently romited her food ani
w^9 unfit for exhihition. The autopey showed a serere
infestation with Ascaris lumhricoides in both small and
large intestines. The stomach also was congested.

Very truly yours.

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Superintendent •

Hr. C. Hart Herriam,

1919 16th St., U. W. ,

Washington^ D. C.

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK

WASHINGTON, D. C.

Ofrict or

SUPCRINTCNDKNT.

NATIONAL 200L0QI0AL PA«K

Jvn% 18 » 19l2.

Dear Doctor Marriam:

The 1>ear al>out which ^ou inquire was a oal€ and
was left at the Park from January X7 to Fehrufijjry 2# 1»09/
hy Mr. Franklin |[oeee« who took it from here to F#w IPW* to
exhibit with an Bskimo hoy in department etoree^ He then
disposed of the animal to the Hew York Zoological Park, He
said that the hear was then 23 months old and that li wae
captured *on the north coast of Behring Sea ahout 20C miles
hack in the interior of Home*. The animal weighed here
330 poiindSt and was ahout Z6^ high at the shoulder.

This is all the history that we hare for the hear,
hut I understand that Mr. Moses can he reached at St. Michaele^
Alaska, and he might he ahle to tell something more ahout th«
animal* Mr. Moses was formerly a teacher in Alaska undex the
Bureau of Education, hut I am told hy the Bureau that he is now
running a store at St. Michael s.
X Vsry truly yours*

W7^c<yrv/<: iScuCc/k^

Dr. C. Hart Merriam»

1919 16th St.. H. ¥•«

WashingtoUt D. C.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK

WASHINGTON, D. C.

orricc or

■UPCRINTENOCNT,
NATIONAt.

ZOOLOaiCAL

July 24, 1912.

Bear Doctor lferrlam«

Vr. Mixter*8 names for the three bear cube
fitted them properly, and the two that are still living
are a male. ••Little Willie* and a female, ••Pritzy Scheff*.
Mr. Blackhurne has no difficulty in distinguishing between

the two.

Very truly yours.

e/^CVT^-v/^ Jk/CXJ'

Superintendent,

Dr. C. Hart Merriam,

1919 16th Street,

Washington, D. C.

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OFFICE OF

SUPERINTENDENT

NATIONAL ZGOLOOICAL PAUK

NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK

UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
WASHINGTON. D. C.

February 5. 1914.

1^ dear Dr. llerrlazn:

I have your letter of February 20 regarding
the bears born in the Zoo this winter* We have been
very unfortunate with them as^ although it appears that
four litters were born, not one has survived, as the
mother has invariably eaten them. In every case the
mother has been plaoed in separate quarters some weeks
previous to cubbing and has been disturbed as little
as possible. Sach one stopped feeding several days
before the birth. The details of the births are as
follows:

January 9. Grizzly one cub, ate it next day.
• 18. European brown bear. Probably
two cubs which mother a^e on third day.

January 22. Yakut at bear^. Cubs born at
9 a. .n. 2aten at once.

January 29. Alaska Peninsuls^ bear • Hoise of
cubs crying ceased shortly after birth.

Very truly yours,

Kr. C. Hart Merr

1919 Sixtee

Washingt

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Superintendent .

OFflCC OF

SUPemNTENDENT

NATIONAL ZOOLOOICAL PARK

NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK

UNDCR THE DIRECTION OF THE

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
WASHINGTON. D. C.

Karoh 3, 1914.

1^ dear Dr. Kerr i am:

I have just received a letter from the

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Silver Lake Park Co. at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, with
regard to their tears, and, thinking that it might
l^e of interest to you in your work, I am sending
you herewith a copy of this letter*

Very truly yours.

rToto^^

Superintendent •

Or. Co Hart Merriam,

The Northumberland ,

Washington, D. C,

OFFICE OF

SUPERINTENDENT

NATIONAL ZOOLOOICAL PARK

NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK

UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
WASHINGTON. D. C.

April 18, 1914.

Dear Dr, Merriam:

In reply to your kind letter of April 16,
I would say that we shall te very glad to have a few
of the four •horned sheep, and I have taken the matter
up directly with Dr* Bell.

With thanks for your kindness, I am.

Very truly yours.

^'''^^oL^ fi?ca

Superintendent •

DTt C. Hart Merriam>

The Northumberland,

Washington, D. C.

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Dear Sir :

At a meeting of the General Committee of the Philosophical

Society of Washington, held

were duly elected a member of the Society.

/J

you

A copy of the Constitution and Standing Rules and list of
members of the Society is sent you herewith.

It is provided in the Standing Rules that an election to mem-
bership is void unless the person elected shall accept the same
in writing within two months after notification.

Please address me as above, giving your name in full. Post
Office address, and place of residence.

Respectfully yours.

Secretary.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY.

Washington, P.O.,

December ft. 1890,

/J

Pr, O.Hart Merriam,

Dept.of Agriculture.

My dear Sir:

There is, in the hands- of the Secretary^

an accumulation of unfinished and new business which
it is important, for the interests of the Society, to
consider and dispose of without delay.

The President directs that a special meeting of

•^

the Board of Managers be called, to meet at his house,
13S8 Connecticut Avenue, on Tuesday eveiing, December
9, at eight o* clocks to despatch this business.

It is earnestly desired that you may be able to
attend.

Very respectfully.

Secretary,

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY.

December f), 1890

r^r.C.Hart Merriam,

Pept.of Af^riculture

My dear Sir:

There is, in the hands of t;he Secretary,

an accumulation of unfinished and now business which
it is important, for the interests of the Society, to
consider and dispose of without delay.

The President directs that a special meetinj^c of
the ^oard of Manaf^ers be called, to meet at his house,
13?!8 Connecticut Avenue, on Tuesday eveminp;, December
9, at eif':ht o'clock, to despatch this business.

It is earnestly desired that you may be able to
attend.

Very respectfully.

Secretary.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY.

Washington, D.O.,

January 2(\ 18^1 •

r>r. O.Hart f 'err iai

am

^ept.of -Agriculture

Dea^- Sir:

1 ahvn the honor to inforiryou that at a

meeting of the Board of Manai^:ers of the National Ge-
ograprdc Society, held January 16, 1891, you were ap-
pointed a member of the Conpiittee on Publications,
to serve for the current year.

Very respectfully.

Secret^arv.

Washington, D,C,»

February 21, 1891

Dear Sir:

Will you please attend a nmmnng
of the Joint Commission of the Scientific
Societies of Washington, to be held in the
Columbian Untversity- President's room- on
Tuesday, February 24th, at 4 P.M,
By orderof the President:

Very respectfully.

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Waahlngton, D#C«,

February 3^ 1S91.

IMir Slrt

Will you pleauie att«nd a maating of

the Joint Commission of tho five aciantifio ao-
citties, to be held at the office of MrtHenry
Gannett, U,S#Geological Survey, Thursday Febru-
ary 5th, at half past three P#M^
By order of the President:

Tery respectfully,

Secretary

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By direction of the ExecutiYe Committee of the
Carnegie Institution I take pleasure in handing you herewith some
papers by W. E. D, Scott and others, relative to the establishment
of a laboratory for the study of living birds, and to request you,
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SIMEON E. BALDWIN,

Simeon E. Baldwin,
John H. Whiting.

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New Haven, Conn.,

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Dr. C.Hart Warridiyn

My djar Sir

four latttjr of August ^6 arrived ^hile 1 was off
OS iL/ vacation* or I should Kava ans'rared it bsfors.

I can onl/ sa/ that 1 hopa sincorel/, as a friand of Dr. Hoad-

!•/, that /ou will bs abla to rjcaive him again into your household

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at Washington and be with him for at least tha three months /ou
speak of, uninterruptedly.

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^9 spok3 to roe shortly before 1 left town, lata in July, about
his arrangements with you, and his intantion to spend something in
furnishing his rooms. His income is sufficient for all his
wants, and 1 presume he could give you a ckeck no /, if you wont to

sea him, in settlement of your accounts.

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JUDGE'S CHAMBERS,

No. 69 Church St.

New Haven, Fob . 26 , 1895 . 189

Dr.C.H.ferriafTi,

viy dear Sir:

As I telegraphed you, this morning, Dr.
F.H.Koadley died suddenly last night, at Palm Beach. Mr.

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body on here for burial. lie will probably start North with
it to-day.

Judge Townsend and you are the executors , and have each
an interest in the residuary estate, by his will.

His sister requests t?iat the funeral be from he - house.
You know wliat Dr.lloadley's relations with her were. If you
disapprove of the arrangement, please wire me, at once. Jud^^e
To'vvnsond is he re, having just returned from Palm Beach, where
he saw the doctor last Vk'ednesday. He was then much as he
has been for some years, when he was not at his best.

I will wire you when the body is to reach here, as soon
as I can learn. Of course, the funeral should be as soon
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My dear Doctor!--

We could not see You and Mrs. Men i am last

Monday, it was decidedly TOO fine weather. Fanny remained at Garrets Pari
and I stormed about the Capital in search of victims to call upon. I was so
fortunate as to r)e able to see my old friend Dr. Mathews, whom I had not seenl

since 1 882, a 1 tho ugh always in touch with him by letter. Found him abed! 1

Fanny will write to Mrs.Merriam shortly. Our best thani-'s for
Your ^'.reat Kindness to us. Our trip to Washing; ton has teen one of the most
pleasant we jointly remember, and good deal of it is due to You and Your es-|
-teemed wife. We hope Your dauf:hter has fully recovered.

la\?e Your regards to all Your friends here. Bump us is o-|
-v^erburlhened with work, he has not a moment to himself, but withal he finds
always a pleasant v^ord,even when he has nc .ine"for a tall*. Allen I have not|
yet seen, when I called he was out, but I shall see him and Ohapman as soon
as possible and tell them of You. --We met of course a deal of snow upon our
return and have winter-weather a^ain to suit an Esnuimaux or Esnuino,and e-
-ven a "laplander" if n ec e s sar y . No t h i n e new under the s un , b es i d es . P e r,ar d s
to Drr'Jilbert and please asW him if he has the paper by Forbes on tho ^eo-
-logy of '^Olivia. In case he has it not and would like to have it, I will ma -I
-^-e an attempt to secure i t for him. Not that it should be atrociously val-|
-uaole but then, it is always a do c une n t . For b es has made many bad ^roaks in
his so-called '*M emo i r " , b ei ng too anxious to wreck d'Orbi:,ny at any cost^es-|

-pecially at the expense of truth. If Our friend Gilbert wishes it, I will

to obtain a copy for him in the course of 'time.

Now as for Your interests:--if You so desire I shall write
for Your use what we have seen, learned and experienced in regard to the
CONDOR. The great bird was ofir companion on the coast and in the Cordillera,
and we found, through personal experience, that much of what the late -^r.^
Brehm (or rather, perhaps, his successor Pehuell-oesche) has stated is as ex-|

-act as any story by Alexander Dumas. If it is of any interest to You, just
say so.

In oase You see Grosvenor please glx's him my conpUments and tell

him that I am tryl . t

0 obtain fr-^r the Monthly on© of my t;eo^:raphic charter

on the Islands and onl.a^e Titicaca.lt will taK© some time however and If I

jtx/ that there is too muon delay I shall write a speoia] articl© for hi

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parts of our CordiJleras. Illustrated of

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himself. My old en^^lish friend Nation was "d

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-ham. I am not surpri.^ed at the 1 at t er .MJark ham is

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Mr. C.H.Merrlam
Lagxmltas, Calif*

February 12 1923

Dear Sir,

While excavating in Babylonia for the University of Chicago,
I obtained for my private collection a number of ancient Inscribed
Babylonian tablets which illustrate the oldest of writings, I now
desire to dispose of them* They are mostly temple records and bus-
iness documents dating from about 4000 years ago, and are the equal
of those treasured In the great European museums.

May I send to you by parcel post a few of the tablets for
your examination, with the understanding that any you do not care to
keep may be returned within two weeks ? The prices are from two to
ten dollars each, a fraction of what an antiquity dealer would charge.
Bach tablet is accompanied with a description stating where it was
found, its age and contents, and my guarantee that it is genuine.

Should you doubt the possibility of this offer, I would
refer you to my sketch in Who^s Who in America, or to the article
felSMYA in the Encyclopedia Britanica.

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Henry Bannon Arthur Bannon

J.W.Bannon Counsel

lloveiiiber 13, 1914- .

Mr. Charles Sheldon,

V/oodstock, Vermont.

Dear Sir-

I have your letter of OctoTjer 29th vftiich was
forwarded to me "by the Editor of "lOutdoor Life*"* I have
read your story of the "Wilderness of the Upper Yukon" and have
a copy in my library.

I will send the bear skull which Tom Jeffreys gave
me to Dr. Merriman as requested in your letter, and I am glad
to do it • I do not know how I can let him see the skull of
my bear because it is a part of the mounted head and is used as
a floor rug. I could send the rug to a taxerd:^rmist and have
.a paper mache head substituted for the original skull if it is
worth while. The teeth of the skull which I sent to you show
that the bear was old. The teeth in the skull of my bear are
all perfect and are very large and heavy. There is no ex-
pense connected with my handling this skull for you. It is
only a pleasure to have had the opportunity.

I noted that there was a Sheldon canp on the south
fork of the Flathead at the outlet of Big Salmon Lake in Ifontana
this summer. I W3.s there. Are you any relation to that
Sheldon?

The story of my Yukon trip was not completed in Out-
door Life, but I reduced it to book form* If you would like
to have a copy I will send it to you. There were a :::reat many
things left out of the magazine copy v*iich a person interested
as you are v/ould enjoy reading.

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Attorneys and Counselors at Law

Portsmouth Ohio
Henry Bannon Arthur Bannon

J.W.Bannon Counsel

!lr. c. Hart Merriam
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Y/ashington

November 30, 1914.

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Dear Sir:

I have your letter of Uoveniber l8th addressed to
me in care of Col. J. A. McGuire of Denver, Colorado, and I
ajfl disposed to do everything I can to aid you* The skull
to the grizzly bear which I killed on the headwaters of the
Macmillan River is in the mounted hide, and if you are willing
to put an artificial head in the rug in its place you can
have the skull for your laiseum. I had an artificial head
in it once and had it removed and the original put in its place
for safe keeping. Can the proposed change be Hade without
injury to the rug? i also have two grizzly cub skulls
which are also incorporated in the original hides and are now
part of rugs. I would not want to have either of t.^m disturb-
ed unless the rugs can be made as good as they are now.

Yours very truly,

BANNON& BaNNON

Attorneys and Counselors at Law

Portsmouth Ohio
HcNRY Bannon Arthur Bannon

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Mr« C. Hart Merriami

1919 Sixteenth Street,
Washington, D« C«

Dear Sir:-

I sent you by express on the 12th the bear rug
referred to in your letter of December 3rd. When I had
the hide moxanted, the taxidermist put an. artificial skull
in it and I objected bcecause I had taken so much care to
preserve the original, whereupon he removed the artificial
skull and put the original back in its place. I understand
thxi original has been cooked thorovighly to get the meat all
off of it, and it may be cracked in several places. The teeth
were all perfect when the animal was killed,- rather a re-
markable condition in a bear of that age and size. This bear
was killed on the Divide, between the north and south forks
of the Macmillan River and about seventy-five miles east
thereof, in the Yukon Territory.

The bear skull sent to Sheldon by Jeffrey is from
a bear killed on one of the forks of the Stewart River - the
next stream north of the Macmillan and rxmning parallel thereto.

I will trust you to do the best you can with the
rug and to return it to me ^dien it has served yo\;ir purpose.

Yours very truly,

\j4vUi^^ ^^W^

p. S. The Macmillan bear was killed Sept. 5, 1910*

Bannon &^annon

Attorneys and Counselors at Law
Portsmouth Ohio

HcNRY Bannon Arthur Bannon

J.W.Bannon Counsel

December 26, I9IM-

Dr* C. Hert Merriam,

The Northimberland,,

Washington, D, C«

Dear Sir:-

I tharJc you for your letter of Decexnber 24-th and.
regret very much to learn that the skull in this head Tms
in such bad shape, for I had taken such good care of it my-
self and had even extracted the brains through the small hole
in the back and then had it cooked with soda to get it perfect-
ly clean and to avoid doing suiy injury to the bones.

After the hide was mounted and ready for inspection^
I had a friend of mine in Seattle go 4nd look at it, and he
wrote that the taxidermist had put into it an artificial skull.
I thereupon wrot^* him to have the artificial skull taken out
and the natural one put in its place, for I did not want to
throw the real skull away after having gone to all the trouble

to preserve it, and this is the result. I presume I woiild
have been better off to have kept the skull separate.

I am sorry it was not of more service to you and
regret that it probably did not pay 3^ou for the trouble you
have gone to regarding it.

Yovirs very truly.

^^^^^^^i^t^i^^

BANNON& BaNNON

Attorneys and Counselors at Law
Portsmouth Ohio

Henry Bannon Arthur Bannon

J.W.Bannon Counsel

February 20, 1915 •

Dr. C* Hart Merriman ,
The Northixniberland,
Washington, D. C

Dear Sir:

The grizzly bear rug has been retiirned, and vdiile

I have not yet had a chance to inspect it I presiime from wliat
you say it is all righ-.

Yours truly.

Bannon & Bannon

Attorneys and Counselors at Law
Portsmouth Ohio

Henry Bannon Arthur Bannon

«J.W.Bannon Counsel

IToveni"ber 19 th

Dr. C. Hart Merriara,
Lagunltas, California.

Dear Sir :

I am sending by express today the skull of a grizzly

bear killed about one hundred miles north of Telegraph Creek and
about tv/enty miles west of the telegraph line in British Columbia.
It was killed on the 20th of September, 1917 ^ ^Q*

Yours very truly,

BANNON& BaNNON

Attorneys and Counselors at Law
Portsmouth Ohio

Henry Bannon Arthur Bannon

J.W.Bannon Counsel

April 24th, 1919*

Dr. C* Hart Merriam,
1919 Sixteenth Street,
Washington, B. C*

Dear Sir:

Rep:|.ying to your letter of April 10th*

I am shipping you today "by express two bear skulls •
one the slcull of the larger grizzly Killed by me on the way out, as

told in my story in the last issue of Forest and Stream, which I want
credited to A« B* Conover, Telegraph Creek, British Columbia* I do
this for the reason that he sent in my care another skull which has
become mislaid and which I agreed to send you on his account (l be-
lieve you pay him something for the skulls he sends you), and I have
never been able to locate his bear skull, and I, therefore, wish you
to treat the larger grizzly skull I send you as though it came from
him, so far as paying him is concerned. If I find the other one, and
I think I will find it in Seattle where I am going to be next week, I
will ship it to you also and then you can make a shift in the tags to
suit the facts*

Yours very truly,

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BANNON& BaNNON

Attorneys and Counselors at Law
Portsmouth Ohio

Henry Bannon Arthur Bannon

July let, 1919.

J.W.Bannon Counsel

Dr. C. Hart Merriam,
1919 Sixteenth St. ,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir:

I have your letter of May 23rd.

I took another bear hunt on the Clearwater, a branch
of the Stikine, this spring with Captain A. B. Conover, and secured
three grizzlies and one black bear. Two of the grizzly skulls
were shipped to you by Captain Conover from Wrangell, Alaska on or
about the fourth of June. One of the grizzly skulls is an e^^cept-
icnally larr-e one, measuring about 1? inches in length. I killed
it end it is a matter of personal pride with me to know how it
compares with the largest skull you have received from the Stikine
river locality, and whether or not you have received any larger or
not from Captain Conover or anyone else. If so, how does the
size of this last one compare with them?

Captain Conover wished me to write you regarding a bear
skin which he has at his home on the Stikine and which he states
is the skin of the same bear the skull of which you pronounced
a black bear. The skin is of a light brown color marked somewhat
after the fashion of a wolverine, but with a decided grizzly roach
and other markings indicating a grizzly, including the claws. My
opinion (for what that opinion is worth) is that the skin shown to
me is off of a small grizzly bear. I slept in the cabin along-
side of it for several nights and saw it often enough to get
familiar with it, but whether or not it is from the same bear that
your skull came from I cannot say. However, I do believe Captain
Conover is absolutely truthful, and that if he says the skull and
hide are from the same animal, they are.

Another matter which you will pardon me for mentioning,
and that is why are you buying these grizzly bear skulls? The
Indians and trappers kill grizzlies now whenever they get a chance
in season and out of season whether their skins are good or bad
lust to ret the price you pay for them. Do you not think that as
8 fur conservation proposition solely that they ought not be en-
couraged to kill these bears, except when their skins are prime.
Grizzly bear hunting is an attractive sport and brings many/ into
some of the waste places of the earth and the extermination of the
grizzly from those localities serves no practical good in my judg-
ment.

I trust these remarks will be taken by you in the spirit

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in which they are intended and not in the nature of a criticism.

Yours very truly,

BANNON& BaNNON

Attorneys and Counselors at Law

Portsmouth Ohio
Henry Bannon Arthur Bannon

J.W.Bannon Counsel

July 3lBt, 1919

Dr. C. Hart Merriam,
1919 Sixteenth Street,
Washington, D. C.

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Dear Sir:

I thank you for your letter of July 25th.

The information therein contained is very interesting
indeed and most satisfying to me. I am taking the liberty of
sending your letter to Captain Conover and I have no doubt that
he will send you the bear hide in question at his earliest con-

venience*

The story of my hunt will ap^ar *in a few months in

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Forest and Stream.

Any time I can be of any assistance to yoU| command me*

Yours very truly.

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ENCOUNTERS WITH GBIZZLI BEARS
By UkRWS BARBEA0

The Grizzly Bear is the tao&t powerful anlwal oa the
American continents, and also the fiercest. It is to the
northern Rockies what the lion Is to the highlands of Africa.

•I often wonder nhat would happen rtiould a grizzly
and a lion once encounter on coaiMn grounds for a showdown, I
should like to be there — only at a safe distance!"

These words were tossed by Angus Beaton at the other
Members of my party, as we oaaqped by the fire one ni^t, in the
wilds of the Cassiar district, near the Alaskan frontier. Beaton
is a big-game htmter, a guide of long experience and a keen
observer* The others were Oustave Gerveis, an old prospector
of the Klondyke who spent a long adventtirous life in the north-
west; and Gsmanoot, the Indian hunter who for many years lived
among the outlaws of the Upper Stikine and the No-Man* s* Land of
the northern interior; all of them well acquainted with grizzlies
and prone to express opinions on their ways and character.

Before minset we had seen fresh tracks of grizzlies,
on the hi^ plateau of Sindzil where huckleberries and other wild
fruit were plentiful* So we mig^t expect to see grizzlies at
any moment, which made them sn infectious topic of conversation.
For grizzlies in the north are like folklore. As soon as their
name is mentioned, there follows a string of stories and
reminiscences, all of them colourful and at times thrilling^

•Sever be too sure of a grizzly, and kill him with
your first riiott* declared Beaton^ In answer to my question,
♦1111 a grizzly bear run away If you give him a chance? • •'He^s
liable to be a toug^ otistomer^ should he get Into his head that
you try to cross his path*««

**My caup once was on the Spatsezee River ^ between
the headwaters of the Skeena atul the Stlklne, and I started on
my way for another place ten miles below, whmn I noticed two
grizzlies digging up groundhogs on the hillside. Ify dogt a big
husky, did not see them, otherwise he would haye started for
them, for It was not easy to hold him back; and he would never

learn*

•I struck out for the bears. When they were still

a good long way off — they did not look very big — , 1 saw
another bear, a large grizzly, coming down the mountain towards
them, two hundred yards above. He drove them away and started
to dig those groundhogs out for himself.

••The sBoiller bears came a part of the way towards
me, and sat down, looking back disgruntled. They were sore, but
could do nothing. A strong wind was blowing my way, making
much noise. I moved Into a good place, and shot them both.
The big fellow didn't hear me, though he was less than two h\indred

yards away* Perhaps the ehots meant aothing to hla or he was
too busy digging*

•I oouldn*t hold mf husky any longer^ aal off
he went on his own hook. But as soon as he looked at the big
bear in the faoe» he sniffed and started the other way» wasting
no titm, I tell you! ,

"The bear decided he Xlk^ the dog better than
the groundhogs* So he chased the dog end the dog caae back to
me for protection* I was ready for the big brute* I shot hla^
but made a poor job of It.

•He fell in a little hollow, and sat there almost
on his back. He couldn^t walk; I had broken his back. But he
was still much all^e. ^ Be snapped his teeth at me. I waited for
half an hour, expecting him to die any moment. But he didn't.
Such endurance I had nerer seen. I skinned the two other bears
and decided at last to go for more shells four miles up to my

cafl^

•Vhen I came back two hours later, he was dead*

I was surprised. The way he had been carrying on with a bullet
in his spine was amazing. He looked as though he would never die

-^••A grizzly you miss is hard to kill," Gervais
acknowledged* "If you make a poor shot and just wound him, he
gets mad and wants to settle a few things with you. He goes to
it quickly. A shot good enough to kill him at the start is not

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8uff ioleiit now; you have to spend much ammunition -*•* almoet
to ehoot Mm to pieces* He^s three or four times as hard
to bring down, and meanwhile you get excited««« Every hunter
will tell you the same thing.*

—"Quite Bol^ agreed our Indian guide Qamanoot, who
had spent nsuch of his life In the best grizzly bear country in
the northern Rookies — the grassy hills east of Groundhog
Mountain, at the headwaters of three rivers: the Skeena, the

Nass and the Stlkine*

*I was out hunting with a friend one time,*
Gamanoot said. •We were both young. Our guns were only flint-
locks — not very good. We met a grizzly on the trail, and
my coii5)anion shot him down. The bear wasn't killed. He ran
away as if he had not been hit at all. But we saw blood in

his tracks.

■We followed him, the other man ahead of me, his

gun ready in his hands* Suddenly we came face to face with the
grizzly waiting for us behind a tree. Like a flash he slapped
the gun off the hands of my friend, grappled with him and held
him by the shoulders. The man shook himself off, but the bear
took a fresh hold, and things looked pretty bad. My friend
thrust his two thumbs into the beards mouth and with his
fingers pulled his ears down — • that's the ri^t way to hold
a wounded grizzly.*

Qervais irtilBpered to tem^
•Try It In your Bjmre timet*
— -*I had a weapon with me, in my hand, a short gun,
old^fai^loned, with the mfuzzle an inoh In diameter^ In ran wp
to the bear who was sitting on top of my frieirf., holding hia
down, but quite unable to moTe» I put the muzzle against his
heart, and I let go.^ The bear rolled ri^t over. The gun had
done him great daamge*

•My friend ♦s ana was badly torn -— bitten in thxem

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places and the muscles^ e^osed* But he was glad to get away
with his life, I had saTSd him. And the people considered us

good hiinters**

Qamanoot*e friend after this must have had no love

for grizzlies, Gervais felt quite sure* There were many others
In the north like him. They hate grizzlies for some good reason,

I suppose, and look for revenge against their kind. "Give them

If
plenty, the beggars! used to say my Irish partner Richards in

the Klondyke, and he would puoyp bullets into them. But he was

a poor shot and was likely to get into trouble with them,*

We were listening. So Gervais proceeded with the

story of an encounter with grizzlies at the time of the Gladstone

Creek stampedel^, about 1^99 # In the Klondyke,

"We had arrived at timber-line, my partners and I^

five in all. Whisky Shorty, an Indian, was at the head of the
party. We were going up the mountain, to the left. After we
had travelled a long irtiile with our heavy packs in the long grass

between clunpe of ground-birch, I dripped with perspiration
and felt tired. I was looking for a spot where to rest, when
Whisky Shorty suddenly dropped hie pack to the ground in front
of me. He grew excited as I had nerer seen him before*

'What* 8 the matter? • I asked hia,

*»^^Beer» beer!* he answered.

—•♦A l»ar?« I asked. ^What do you mean]* There
was no bear anywhere. ♦Are you craxyt*

— •Look down there! • and he pointed at two large
griaslies, three hiandred yards below.

— •Yes, bears! • I said. ♦Give me your gun} I
had left my rifle at the can?).

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*«<--*Ho!* he answered, and I wasn*t surprised. An
Indian always wants to shoot first, biA he was the only Indian
in our party. He took his aim, fired, and missed. He tried
again, but his gun jammed. Tried and tried.

-.^♦aiTe me your gun!^ I said. Perhaps I could

isake it go, but niks! I couldn^t*

•Two other prospectos behliriL us had, George
Stevens, a 30-lK), and Harry Richards, a 30-30 Winchester. The;
fired, but did not kill the grisiglles.

•fhen the larger grlzsly was hit, stie gave a
slap to the other — a thre*- years old, and quite big — and
sent it rolling upon the ground. Then they came to grips

together and began to f l^t; they seemed to blame eaob other
for their trouble » Tet they had aeen us^ It was at range J

"They dldn^t know what to do, run away or
charge^ then they tried to run away» they heard a gun shot
and changed their mi^^

♦Look out, they are comingi* one of vtm

suddenly cried out*

*It^s then that Riohards, 1^0 hated bears like

pests, shouted back.

good

for theal*

•The bears were running uphill towards us.

Richards, Stevens and myself -^ Whisky Shorty had vanished.
Richards Junped about excitedly, and Stevens t<X)k his rifle
out of his hands, his 30-30, asking htm how many cartridges
there were in the magazine^ He answered, Sixl Scott and
I ran downhill a few yards* Stevens yelled at us.

*Come back^ you coarse devils, 009^ back, you* 11

get killed? ♦

We all TBXk up together, the other way, and

Stevens was the only one left with »mitions in his rifle* We

turned around and faced the bears, wIk> were still coming.
I said to Stevens,

-i^tx^onH shoot now. Take your wlnAt They oan^t
get here for a few eeoonde.*

^He breathed a few tlmes^ tbaa fired. One of
the bears fell down. Another shot^ and the other too.

*The larger grizzly was on her baok in a little
hollow, alsDOst dead; bat she was still SK^Ting her front paws,
I lo<Aced for the plaoe vhere the ballet had hit her. It was
In the neokj, whioh was brokenv I foimd it there^ took it
off with my banting knife bjoA kept it for good luok in i^
pocket for many years»*

^Ihen

<-~^That comes tk> what t saidj^* Beaton acknowledged
you miss a grizsly with your first shotji you shoot
wildly, you get excited, and that*s not always healthyt*

.^"Neither can you always chose to ran away.*
Gervaie oonelt»led,

--"If you do,* said Beaton, "clliato a tree quicA,
the ri^t tree, big enouj^. For a grizsly cannot climb.
But I have nBrex tried it, A htrnter seldom does. It looks

foolish, •

Oassmoot laughed at the idea. It reminded him

of something, ai^ he said,

*The bear waits there at the foot and you fall
into its mouth. That nearly happened once to my uncle Kall^
when I was still youngt

*He htint^ the grlzslles with a mxzzle loader^
BsA It was quite a jdb. One day he ehot a grisssly on l^e tmll,
but didnU quite kill him. He aran and climbed a tree ^^ end
stayed there ^ The grissly stood up maybe ten feet higjh, put
his great arms around the tree and tried to shake my unole do«i»
tried and triads >But the tree was too big^

^liy unole stayed there in the tree a whole day^
The bear II at the foot» kept him good company ^ They looked
at ea<^ other most of the time. Then they parted «^ the bear
getting tired of it first,

«Wh«a Kail arrived at the village and told his
adventure, the people asked him^

^.^tiBiy d^ y0^ jiQ% shoot the bear^^ when you were

i3g> there? Had you not plenty of time to yourself, ♦

Kail answered^

^A bird^s nest stood ri^t in my way« I couldn*t
see the bear because of the nest«*

«He would not admit that in his haste he had left
his gun on the grotmd. The people after that coiildn^t forget
about the bird*s nest; they found it too funny for woxdst*

Oliolbing a tree was not always done by the
htmter alone, Oervais declared, as if he inferred that grizslies
too can do it when they chose. This was so clearly at variance,
with common experience, that both Beaton and Oamanoot, surprised.

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turned arcaind to look at hl«. Challenged, oxrr old Klondyke
prospector at once proceeded to prove his contention • Of
course grizzlies are not everyshere quite the samCt he admitted ^
ai^ the one he had In mind belonged to the Klondyke irtiere
strange things are knovn to have happened •

•I was going up the Ti^lna River in a canoe,*
he said* •As I paddled close to shore on account of ttie current,
I cazM t:5> to a tree leaning ovwr the river, a tall pine* k
noise in the tree startled me* I looked up bsA saw a bear, a
grizzly. I didn»t know a grizzly could climb a tree, Imt there
he was; I took my gun and fired at him from under, without
thinking. Quite stupid of me?

•The bear tuiibled ri^t over and fell on hJji
back into my canoe, at the bow* He was cau^t there fast, while

still alive*

"I Jumped into the river, and swam to shorSi^

thou^ at other times I couldn^t swim. From the shore I saw
my canoe drifting down, in midstream, with the head of the bear

Jutting out*

•Confound it!» I said, •! still need my csnoe.

I must have it back**

The river a little below made a long turn, bending

to the right*

•Cutting across the tongue of land throu^ the
trees, I began to run* When I came to the shore again belom

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the eurve I looked tip and donn f@r the oanoe and the bear,

Imt oould see neither*

«That beats ae!* I thought, »1fhat*s happened?*
I waited. Hothlng! let I was sure I had reached there first.

•After a while, I walk^ upstream along the short^^
looking everywhere. Another tree stood in my way, bending
ower the river. I waw trying to climb over it when, what

did I seeT

•the bear was in ttie tree with the oanoe still

fastened to his back.*

f© that moment we had been listening Intently
to Oervais* story, Beaton with his mouth half open. Recovering
his sense of humoure, Beaton shouted.

•You* re a damn lijir!*

He put more wood on oux camp-fire and we omde our
beds of cedar bou^s reofty. Enough of bear stories for one
nig^tl

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pcHmMi ^qp^oB his l^itimt# pirty.

I ny^ X#gltliiBat#t» tHMmass It isak#8 &tl th^ dlff«ty«iM»
f* atX Itnow of the ebe-^gslesly vlth h#r eulMiii of ^te
sprlaflhtiae gxlssXy with lOiaurp olawsj^ Xaim fleakd and a talX
hsongort of the hunting gristly fRiYprlsed noxt to his klll^ saft
of ths mwasAiA gilssXy h»it v^^oftk rersnge* Bessxs the ossusX
woodssan lAio happens to oitiss his pathf Ma&y taXes of voe in
the faiu.fiestsni settleioM^s have glTSn the grlssXy o» that
aeore a reputation that hre^s fear toA respeet* The Indians
used to have a essii^siipertltlous dread of hlai* Wiea tte
soMm mmk% out to ip^ther slid berries In ths hlXls» they i^iouted
and Moigt so as to earn the hears of th«Lr prssenoe f mns a
dlstanoe^ sliwe a hear that Is takm hy surprise Is undoubtedly

dangerous* Otherwlss he avoids mm as a ruXs^ partlouXarXy
sliM»e he seess to know the power of his we^Kms*

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But i^lMii tixe grtsslj 9W* oat axploriag, irtm lit
8»t» ft i^iff of stsftBg* foods t^t tiwtalUt k%m
^ not Mom quite logitioato, vboi ho is vedMlAoi viMther he
lAtottM xua ox n^ouU CojnM hlo trajr thxou^ — tti«i «e have
sootier grl««ly» the grissly wi^ • furtiv* pc*« or «ie thief
with a guilty eoaseieRoe. If e»aght jred-haadeA he is apt to jom w
hut not very far. Or else, if ohallengea, he mmj put wp m goei
fight. Sew wm eho happened to fall ia vith him at thle lUBOtuze
lost their fae«, their XUOm m& OMetiaee their life. AH §g
thie» uaezpeetodly for both partiee eoneeraedU tbm teapter sbA
the ^ief .

•Oae early aorningf I was •mk9 nder the tent,*
eald Oerrais, an old pzospeotor of ttie XlonAyke daye. *It warn
lA June 9nA the sic^te were Tezy idu>rt la t3ie far north, neiar
Hhitehorse* ^lere I vaa, at the tiae« vith a party of
in the Yukon. I «M tuzning wad turning en mf bed of spzuee
•feathers* (needles) , trying to eleep» hut eouldn*t.

•lhat*e that? I heaxd the rustling of feet to ny
lefty toeazde eunrlee, Just outside the tent <— a brand nev tent
ehioh «e had planted right ia the midet of a pateh of thiek aoae,

*X lietened for a few nirattee but, I thought, it
■uet be a mistake: no one would ooae hexe at thie tiae*

•Suddenly I ea« the hand of a bear» a large ha^^

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rig^t over mm^ outside tlie oa&irae of th# tant^ against the rieiag
ami* fhe elava aara dn^an out* It aaa a g^aaly* to ba mxTm,
aad a large oxia#

^Uf tao f^^paaioaa alapt aouoodljr to aqr rl|^t»
I oouldn^t aaakan tliea vltliout iiolaa^ Hiat to do?

^fhe bear aanted to tear vp the canvaa^ Tfm% If^t
iMiHlii^t quite oade up hla aiad yat. He ime tiaaitast* *Diilt a
alimtal^ ha aeeaad to thlidc* ^Theara^a waa^iiig qu^ier about thla*
Bow iAiouM I go about Itt* Ra pmt hla paw on the aaavaap wajff
lll^tly^ yet daagexouaXy oloaa to tta# Without f^urther thou^tn
I aonttehed it with wf ixAex^ Be draw it baok qulokly^

^l Jumped to the teat flap^ looked outside and
aaw hla therein locdclag quite puaaleA* I let loose a irollay of
iiiw«MiitiTeS|» aa if for mtf deaths X oalled hi» wile nas^s^ ^Touj^

r

^Wf partners woke wp wil^i a atar%« They oouldn^t

uiidarataisd« ^Uiat^a happmed?* they wwtad to kaow^

«»»*A bear* a griaslyl^ t aald»

*^Thay took It for a great Joke» ^The hell with
your grlsalyi* they aaawered. ^Ihare^a no bear arois^ here^^ E<
waa gone; I oouldn^t i^ow hin to them. 'Alright!* I aaid* fhey
did not believe ae« not Juat then «^ only after three daya«

^Aa usual I oasMi bask to oasp earlier than the

otheroa to oake the soup. Whereas the tent? I wondered^ walking

dovn th# hogbu/kp ateat a taoAfi. jmrdt from ntuBf it usad to
stand In the claaring. Vo tant. I Mttst ba idatakan; this «a«
a different oXaariag. oRaoh like tha otber. Bat no; it «ae ^tm
xig^t plaoa* fQiaxa «aa ttie tenXl I erosaad the eraak on tlM
iDg and looked around. The tent «aa there hut all Is tattaira,
flat on tiie gxoond,

*So yoa«va eoae ba^l* X aaid« looking fox oar iuppliaa,
*Woo9 ««r« laft. Ra had aatas or daatroyed everr^ilag.
Tha large pot for poxk and heana aaa there; it vaa fall in tha
aernlng. Re had taken the oover off « aleaned it to the hottea
flffld litdced it. Tl^re vaa inraid and there ma ha« iih«ft Z left,
Th«f were gone* Re had earried tha haai ftwar* X enppoee, Tha
flugar* the floar and the ooffee aara not ae uaaful to his. Bat
he «ouldn*t leave than alone. Be had aeattared everything on
^e ground*

Ahi* mr partnera aaid|^ i«t«a t^ay arrlvad. *ltet*«

tha aattar?*

Rothing^' I ana««red, *Be. thare*a no bear around

hare

Thay began to swear* But it nade not the leaat

difference* M had to go baflk to headquarters^ aeven alias aaay^
for our vapptTt that nig^t.

"Tha beare ssrs a regular nalaanoe around mitehorae*
at the tioe ahea the siasrs used to proqpeot there for gold*

7h«7 tnam ttom ^rmtf BiAm llk# thlertSj^ ha% iMirt teldoa mmi.
£i^aryiriti«3re wm beaxd of tl^m» of their thefts atttl the daaeige th^ Ald«

^fbrest» ft ptowp^etox^ mm sitting to hie nlddaf «Mil^
one <imy# ia the alMle of his tenti, feeing the flap^ "^loh he
luA thronn opera » Sudftenly a beiiir eet 19 there ^ looking In* Be
wam^t afraid of bearei^ but dldtoH like the looke e^t tiiat big
fellow* *Qo avay» jwk beaetl^ he n^bouted at hiSi. itet that

mtro^t enou^.

growling,

*loyi*d better »#« I* Bm ICKdied oiwr the dliiaer^ tMt he dldn^t
dare l^meh It^ not yet. foreet etood vp and toidc hie «2?
that* a all he had theare^ biOilnd hl«« He fired at the bM^ri
t&e bear dldte^t lUte lt« Be went Mmfm It Mia tmty a big
blaelc bear^ The atorr wlpAit haim turned out different wlti

grlaalr*

^But the next

bMur Ofpm 1»uft:

ami>y» and be helped hl»Nilf to a geiod dinner* ffot aatlefled h§
tore the tent to Mte» Juat aa another had done to ue only a
few week a before*^

^Beare^ yee! They wer« a peat In ISie Clot^yke^*

^Another tine** related old Qerwale^ out of hla rloh
atore of rewlnleoenoea^ *^I waa In OMp wltti a imrty of eurreyox^
In the Y^on« Vhlle the nen ware Inelde an enoloaure of branohea

they had swie. I eat near a blit nine tree outalde. aaoklnff mm

plp«. A JO-^JO Wlnolie»t«r leaned agalnet the tree trunk, to

rii^t*

•All of a euSden I eaw a big grlEsly acroes the orett»

(Mnrenty feet amiy.

*A l>e«rl* I aaid to tiie others* taking the gun; *&

grlsslf aeiroM ttte ereek» tjoyet*

•I had the rifle In mj hende» hut X never thought of
ehootlng until he had gone; that eee all over within a eeeond.

•B«ar«e8h» ^m eurreyor. mid* • ttiy didn't foa kill hint
Olve ne the gonf* «nft, all exeltcd, he ran after the loear* as
fast ae he could go, I folloved* hnt only vnlklng. I heard a

shot.

"The next thing X saw «ae «• BarMeb* real hot 19

ft trees

The grlsxly was denelng arotmd the tree, Sn a rage,
•napping hla teetti at hl«. When Barvaeh eav ae he begwt to yell
ae X never heazd a sen do. The hear grew frlf^tened and r«i «ay*

•The afen In oaii|> laiag^ed for days over it — the nay
Bxarva^ had yelled* 'Bov's yotir idiletle now?* they eould ask

/

hln« It ens airlift

MUdi Bore tuMfUl

"A FrenoawCanadlan adner, the aane year, net a grlExly

?

beax thlBt tA %hm duk^ on the Pellef RlT«r oIom to Vhlt^oxM*
And h« hisA the vorst of ^e deal!

«8wm»r or vlnter^ he used to hang hie elatoe of beMtt
and ^# freeh mmt in the o|Mm eood i^ed ontelde hie oabiSi^ vAeftt
<me flKijming^ ^ey vexe gone* Be didte^t know lAuw eseng UMI
neig^botere to eaefKHit» tmt he would be <m the loofc^otit^

*ite ment on hanging hie MNit thi^re |uet the eaae^
and^ ease 4n»mgh^ he heaxd eoeseone ^eiter the ^led Imlm, ai^ther
nig|it« Ke went <mt« Bnt the t^ief nee goiM wittoat Imping a
tM0e«

*^Tte eaaie noiee againi, one of the following nig^ta«
Heaeiftly <^p«ied the door twd xunlted into l^e ^ed» ^e thief
etood there in the dark; he hadn^t had tiras to ikulk away. *What

are you doing here?* he ahouted

gtwxsA

on the left side of hie head* lAood wae etreaidng tn^m hte f^ee;
hie ohMk wae torn deep« Re had oani^t the thief thie tiae ^^ m
griaslyt hut had eoa^ a bit too eloee« fte bear had elapped hi«
off before running away without oauaing further daa^ge» beoauee
he had a guilty ooneoienee*

*H<metheleee he was laid up wilAi a l»rcA:«i jaw for
eeweral aKmthe in the hoi^ital at ttiitehoree* Qrisalieet you
eee« are good Muilera* Thc^ would do well in ^e ring. &ad
they aiw at the hei^« Of thie^ Billyi»the«»Beax» a Skeena Rlwer

Indian^ ie another proof »

a

Wxmi thB tooriftts stop* Sn tte susmr^ at tha totm
pol9 TiXXiLgo of KltMOAga^ <« tiM Sft:0«fta Rlvar^ eIos# to Prince
Bnperi^ tliay ooimalosallf notice a strange^lodlting oharaot«r
wmmg the natlireei an oM feXlov wltli thick gsrlsaled luBiir
alioee face fsoa the eyes doiA le ecfeened hy a daxk clcl^ wot&
like a Miik#

l^ie is 6ilX^1^e-»Bea3r#

But It le Juet ae «ell not to etoxe at hi« or to
eee® too mmli intereetodl In him* For he reemte it« Pretend
not to see hlai. Perhaps he wenta to forget his affl lotion » He
hae no face; eo the people ear«

Rov^a taiatt

ilell» he ventured into a grisxly bear* a den» onM
long ago^ and he left hie hailstone featurea there » for he wmm
a good<* looking and powerful hunter^

That happened in the nel^bourhood of Oitwlnlkul
lakCn to the north* Re una not poaitlYC ehether the hear iiaa
etill iM ita den^ in the apring« So he looked in to aake aure^

aeeaed

He sat outalde^

to reat^ bat not irery long* A griasly growled inaide aisl began
to crawl out* He fired a ehot and tooug^t the bear waa dead*

To get the body he went in, but waa badly receiired^

The bear, etill aliwct grappled with hi% alapped his, clawed

■iSUigBd.

into his heart and f inl^ hi««

n«t*« vhat Bllly->th«-B«ar hiaMlf oould ««11
you, if h« would. Bat he iiDB*t. f9it mmm Queer rMeoa* ta«

ftiJajuMid

»f himelf* He keeps oleer of hears* deas la tlw
gyring or at (^r other seaeoa of Idie 3rear» bbA hates their very
name, fhiqr i^re not haalldif to led; iato for those sbo hsTS no
IMMiness there*

t

ffimtere are not 19ie only ones guilty of
intrueioa. Orissliee too often hutt in triiere they have no haeiaest
They seem to kaoe it too, as a thief eouia, aaA they are ptwam
to take to their heels* Tou oaa easily aaakea a guilty eoaeeieaee

in thea.

There is soae danger, ho«ever« In eatehlng om

aipdln

door — or the eindoir!

dropped

That's tdtat another aneodote of Oervais, the YsiEon prospeotor*

will shoe*

*Oae early soming in June," eaid Oervais, "Cr,

horse. His partoer ibodney was etill asleep in the o^«v book.

to the left. Both hunke, in lAie snail eabln, abutted to

open window at their feet, with a narrow alley-way between then.

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^op» goes the weasell as the ea]ri&S hat it» Qeily

thle tiise It im« m grlraly^ Dr. Sagdmi imr his large liea& appear
In the vindoWjp and before he oould wore a finger the big brute
ted aXlsd>ed upon the ladge«,

^h bearf ^ erled the Doetor.
«»-«*The hell vith ymu bear etoryf^ ftoodM^^ ^MMired befom
he had tlae 1N> pMl hie head out of hie blanketn*

^^iurprieed^ the beiur loat hlaiequlllbrl^M mt the tm&M and
fell Insidej^ heed, f Irat^^ wlISi a t^tuap^

<»SO0l«n t&rav hla blanket o^er the bear^a heed miA yelled

to Voc^ne7t

*Look out for jpsuraelft*

•The bM.r atood v^^ appar«itly <|ulte rattled^ Be waen^t
ueed to thia kind of raeket.

•fbo^ey aXiB^ threw hla blanket at ^e bear^ but the beaar
oaoe hACk at hiau Meanwhile Sogdm atood up end reaohed for tha
rifle« The grltaly «ade for hi« aa he juaped bai]it upon hie bi»k#
lo one aeemed to Ioeiow ahat to do nesitp ewen the bear*

•lleodney tried to take hold of the rifle » but the bear
ttotioned hie paw at his, aa if to aay^ ^lot irtiile I atand here.^
<^Vhile the bear looked the other way Dr* Sog^en alippM
off hla bunk and orawled wader it« The bear didn^t like to aea
hla there and decided to dig hiw out^ aa he would a groundhog out
of a hole in the ground* Re reaohed out for hiw with hla paw*

^^loodney wis^EiaAille took the rlfle^ firad at the bear* a

u

^lii« beblaA tiM h««A* That «a« pXflsity.

•took at thatt* wmiA Vbodn*;
•fhtit «a« a goo4 eaxtxidg««

At IOm jrif^t pl8««»

Midi at tiM rlgptkt tiw.*

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THE UNIVEKSTTY OK KKBRASKA

May 15, 1912.

Dr. C. Hart Merriam,
1919 16th St. ,

Washington, D C
Dear Dr. ^erriam:-

Dr. Robert H. V/olcott has just referred your letter
of May 9th to me, and I am forwarding to you today by express,
according to your instruction, the Bear skull which you wish
to examine. I fear that you will find this a large ex?.miple
of Black Bear rather than a Grizzly Eeqr. It was found by
T>r. M. H. Everett, "three feet underground in an old glacial
channel cut in Carboniferous and Silurian in LaSalle County,
east of Utica, Illinois". The mandible was missing.

If you will be kind enough to give us the result of
your identification, it will be appreciated. I was surprised
to learn from you, throu{;rh Dr. Wolcott, that there are few
Giizzly Pear skulls in the Museums of the Country, and shall
immediately take pains to secure some for our own collections.

Whenever we can serve you, it will be a pleqsure to
do so. Our collections are beginning to assume proportions,
and the outlook for a big State Museum was never so bright.
They are preparing to build for me a wing which will cost
0250,000. The design is to be such that additions can be
made to this indefinitely. Being^rather omniverous collector,
I have succeeded in filling the t^ Museums, which I have
occupied on coming here, faster than the Pegentw could
build. They are preparing a third building which will meet
de^^ands for space for some time to come. In many wqys this
is a rtate rich in material.

Very truly yours,

y^

State Geologist,

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Lincoln, Nebr., July 18, 1912

Dr. C. Hart Merriara,
1919 16th St.,

Washington, D. C.

Dear Dr. Merriam:

I returned the other day from four weeks spent in New
Haven and the clerk informs me that the bear skull has been re-
ceived in perfect condition. I am pleased to know that this
specimen has been of intereet and service to you.

In your forthcoming report should you make mention of
' this specimen. I would be pleased to have you recognize Dr. M. H.
Everett, who is the donor of a large collection to this museum.

My class re-union was on a liberal scale and we cer-
tainly lacked for nothing and each of us ought to do better work
for the next few months for having been there. It was my inten-
tion to return by way of Washington k«± in order to call upon
yourself and other friends. However, time was too limited and
• it was necessary to return and take charge of things here,
menever this Museum can serve you in any way, you will find it

at your command

Very truly yours,

B-W

THE UNIVKRSITY OF XKBRASKA

LINCOLN

13BPARTM1BNT OF GEOLOGY
NKBRASKA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
STATE MUSEUa*
ERWIN H. BARBOUR

Dr C.Hart Merriam

August 4,1921

Washington,©. C.

Dear Dr Merriam-

appeare*

I am attempting to dictate to myself today and you
will soon/see that I am no professional.
You will recall our correspondence respecting Ursus luteolus.
we have nerer been farored with a copy of your report in which it

Are these for distribution? If no* can you direct some one
to let me know the price and title, so I can get a copy by purchase
for my department, I am trying to build up a good departmental
library here so whenever you have any surplus books or pamphlets
in good repair or otherwise remember my needs if you will,
sometimes there are many duplicates. and we are omnivorous and ready
for anything you may see fit to send. I have been compelled to neglect
our library somewhat by the stea,^ inorfease of students. There were
903 students in my department last year.It is certainly an exacting life
DO not mistake this for complaint.we^are really suffering from
a superabundance of riches. We will.have a student body here oflo.OOO
IB there such a thing as a good classification of the animal kingdom?
Did your department ever publish anything touching U^^^efM^ this

**-♦» Ai-prt^v BO Trusting that you are well
matter/ systematists differ so. a*^"" o

I am , as ever,

Very truly yours.

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MrrsBiTM OF Comparativb Zool.oo'X'

Cambridob, Ma8». U.S.A.

Dr. C. Hart Merriam
Biological Surtrey
Washington, !)• C,

November S6, 19

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Dear Dr. Merriam:

The old Huttall Ornitholos:ioal Club
is about to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. There
will be a meeting 6n the afternoon of Friday, December
the seventh at Batchelder's home in Cambrido-e and then
a dinner in Boston later on. This we want to make a
memorable occasion. We are to have the Tavern Club -
a perfect setting - and then we want just one final
treat. This you, and you alone, can furnish. If you were
to come on and speak quite Informally after dinner on
"The State of Ornitholoery in America Fifty Tears Ago"
I think everyone would agree that you had more than done
your part to aomplete our enjoyment. The Committee
on Arrangements for which I am speaking, will of course
take care of you during your stay in Boston. Please
answer this in the affirmative as soon as you conveniently

can; and I am.

Your sincere ftiend.

inufi(eum of Comparative Zoblogp

OFHCE OF THE DIRECTOR

Cambridge, Massachusetts

November 8, 1928

Dr. C. Hart Merrlam
1919 Sixteenth Street
Washington, D* C.

Dear Dr. Merrlam:

I believe you are a Trustee of the National Geographic
Magazine. Such being the case I think I will show you
a copy of a letter which I received from LaGorce when
I wrote him (in Grosvenor's absence) that the Society
had been used as a smoke screen in the matter of trying
to give the Geological Survey credit for having
originated the Impact Theory of Origin whereas they had
always stuck for the Steam Explosion Theory and the
credit for Meteoric Origin belonged elsewhere.

This whole matter should have been brought up before the
Trustees recently for the reason that Mr. Agassiz,
Mr. Q. A. Shaw, Dean Magee of Princeton, Dr. Elihu Thomson
Ex-President of the Massachusetts -*-hstitute of Technology,
myself and a host of others have written to the Chief
Justice and other friends on the Board to have the matter
straightened out. The Magazine will not add to its
reputation if old members and well wishers who are in a
position to set it straight when it goes wrong are
answered in the insinuiiting and, indeed, insulting terms
in which this letter is prepared.

I certainly hope that you may be interested in seeing
this mess cleaned up and proper acknowledgement made
that the Magazine has been in error. I also know that
you knov/ me well enough to know that I am not dabbling
in this matter v/ithout an absolute Certainty that I am
in possession of all of the facts.

Sincerely yours.

Professor of Zoology and

Director of University Museum

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COPY

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
Washington, D. C.
John Oliver LaGorce
Vice-President

September 13, 1928.

Mr. Thomas Barbour,

Museum of Comparative Zoology,

Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dear Mr. Barbour:-

*

1 have your letter of September 1st, and am always
glad to hear from you.

The second paragraph of your letter reminds me of a
story that they credit to the present Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court, who was then Secretary of War. ScKne older newspaper man
rushed in to him one day with a remarkable story of Mexican intrigue
emanating from the Hearst newspapers, and urging that the War
Department take immediate action against Mexico. Mr. Taft listened
to him politely, then, shaking his hand, called him the Nestor of
journalists; but added with a chuckle - "Mare^s Nestor."

For forty years the National Geographic Society and
its magazine have been operated on a basis of fairness, equitable
disposition and seriously intent on disseminating as well as collecting
geographic data, you will never find even a photograph that appears
in the Magazine that is not credited to someone if it is humanly
possible to know the source of the picture - and of course that is true
of all articles. In short, that is an established policy.

We have necessarily a ruling, however, that we do not
press-agent or stand as a dedium of propaganda for any commercial
enterprise, operated for profit for an Individual or group. I might
also add that this has been attempted innumberable times, as it is
with every magazine.

At the risk of wouiding your sensibilities, but with
no such desire, and in the same frank manner in which you see fit to
take us to task about something that you are most certainly jumping
at conclusions about, I would say that the idea of an article on
this Arizone crater came to us with certain airplane photographs,
given us by an army officer, and one of our own staff ^ set about
preparing a brief story for The Magazine. As he worked up the narrative,
the trail brought him to Mr. Barringer, in Philadelphia, who was
interviewed, courteously gave facts, and offered photographs; also
being kind enough to say that he would look over the story after it was
completed, for possible error, and at the same time suggested that he
be mentioned. As we had found, in vestigating the matter, that Mr.
E^^ringer and his associates had formed a compiny for the commercial
exploitation of this crater and had sold stock in said company, largely
in- tile east, in order to raise money to proceed with the work, it was
f-ankly and clearly explained to him at that time by our representative

that his name could not be used except in crediting one of his
pictures - if it was found possible to use any of them with the article
and, at that time, the gentleman appeared to be satisfied with the
explanation and decision. It was after the publication of the article
that he saw fit to bombard the members of the Board of Trustees and
cause a number of college professors and scientists to write in pro-
testing against the alleged unfairness - all of which seemed to be an
afterthought.

Please understand that I do not question for an instant the
entire propriety of anybody organizing a stock company, selling stock
bonds, or anything else they have to the public, no matter what the money
is intended for, since that is a legitimate business with which we have
no concern; moreover, never for one moment has the integrity or ethical
procedure of this gentleman been questioned. However, we do reserve the
right to carry on our affairs in accoidance with rules for guidance
which we believe to be sound. One of those rules - necessarily made
because issues of The Magazine containing, for examole, oil articles
were used as a means of approach and "guarantee" for the sale of oil^
stocks to members of The Society - is to omit the name of anybody directly
and officially connected with a commercial project for the Durpo^^e of
profit, in connection with an article that could be used as' I point out.

^^ My dear Mr. Barbour - there are two things most men think

they can do better than the one doing it; to wit, edit a magazine and
build a fire, and I wonder what you feeling would be if I should write
you asking why you didn»t credit Adam and Eve for the discorery of some
animal which you had isolated, identified and contributed to the world* s
knowledge, or if I were to coolly tell you that I didn't think you
were making much of a success of the Museum of Comparative Zoology because
you didn't spend enough time in it but enjoyed yourself in the field for
months on end. I call this simile to your attention on the basis of our
pleasant acquaintanceship of fifteen years, with no desire to be acrimonious:
but neither you nor anyone else can get by me with a suggestion that the
National. Geographic Society is being used for a "smoke screen", for in that
you are gratuitously attacking an institution which has and is contributing
much to the world's knowledge just as you think you are, and has by
painstaking and ethical means brought about a complete change in the
humanization of the study of geography in this country, as well as winning
the respect and support of 1,200,006 people.

I certainly do not object to your writing to inquire about
this matter, either as a member or as a friend, but it does occur to me
that the manner in which you have seen fit to do it is not becoming to
your own position or the effort at helpfulness which we have given to the
things which you are interested in.

With the hope that you have had an interesting and hapDV
season in the field, and with all good wishes.

Sincerely yours,

(Signed) James 0. LaGorce

MEUSEUML Off" CJO]!HI»ARATIVE ZOOI^OOY

]>]L%.ssi%.c:;^ussTT'fii

DIRECTOR'S ROOM

March 16, 1932

Dr. C. Hart Merriam
1919 16th Street
Washington, D.C.

Dear Dr. Merriam:

Dr. Barbour is in Central America and will
not return to the Museum iintil sometime in May.

Your recent paper entitled, "Roosevelt,
The Naturalist," which you so kindly sent him, will
be brought to his attention immediately upon his
return and I know he will read it with great inter-

est.

Sincerely,

^ // lu^

Assistant Secretary
to Dr. Barbour

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NOTES

495

The Directorship of the Museum of
Comparative Zoology. — Dr. Thomas Bar-
bour, a distinguished naturalist, well known
to all students of vertebrate zoology, has just
been appointed to the directorship of the
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard
University. He succeeds Mr. Samuel Hen-
shaw, who has been director since 1912 of one
of America's largest and most complete
collections of zoological material. Doctor
Barbour brings to this office a broad knowledge
gained through many years of field work in
the East and West Indies, in southern Asia,
South America, and particularly in Central
America. As one of the organizers and
directors of the Barro-Colorado Zoological
Station in Panama, as one of the leading
spirits in the development of the Harvard
Institute for Tropical Biology and Medicine,
and as a very active curator at the Museum
of Comparative Zoology, Doctor Barbour has
done perhaps more than any other American
biologist to open up the animal life of the
American tropics to investigation and close
study.

Doctor Barbour's recognized ability as an
administrator is attested by the great number
of offices he holds in scientific institutions and
societies. He is a member of the faculties of
Harvard University and of the Harvard School
of Tropical Medicine, a member of the Library
Counsel, and one of the curators of Harvard
College Library. Although Doctor Barbour
has published papers in many fields of verte-
brate zoology, his chief interest centers in the
distribution and systematics of reptiles and
amphibians.

enable a larger number of persons to view the
heavenly bodies at night from the lawns of the
American Museum. As the membership in
the society is rapidly increasing, the loan of
telescopes is much appreciated.

Aj^wftoaYL .CiiUKCiL^ir-The new astronom-
ical society, the Amateur Astronoipers
Association, is fortunate in that the f<3(llow-
ing persons have kindly agreed to serve on its
advisory council: /

Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, President, American
Museum of Natural History. '

Dr. Frederiojt Slocum, Director, Wesleyan University
Observatory.

Dr. Caroline "P. Furness, Prof, of Astronomy, Vassar
College.

Dr. Anne S. Young, Director, Mount Holyoke Ob-
servatory. /

Dr. S. A. Mitchell, Director, University of Virginia
Observatory.

Dr. Asaph Hall, U. S. Naval Observatory.

Dr. Frank Schlesrpger, Director, Yale University
Observatory.

Dr. Henry Norris Russell, Director, Princeton Uni-
versity Observatory.

Dr. Harlow Shapley.s Director, Harvard College
Observatory. \ /

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Dear Sir;

I have just learned that Billy George and

Rich McMinn of Kemmerer, Wyoming, have two hrovm bears ( cubs)
which I suspect are grizzlies. Furthermore these two men are
well acquainted with the hunting of that vicinity and
frequently have skins on hand, perhaps skulls also. It would
well pay, I believe, to communicate with them.

I shall keep you informed^ of any news concerning
grizzlies here, though, as you know, these animals are not at nail
comiron in this vicinity.

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I thank you for your proffer to assist me in

preparing a list of the Utah mammals.lt is a great task, especially

for one engaged in the practice of law. My natural bent , however,

is clearly towards the wilds; and I never tire In working over

the data I have on hand. Unfortunately I have not copies of the

Horth hm^VlQ3in Fauna papers though Mr. Nelson has very kindly

given me outlines of very much that they contain. I have the

B.Soc of w^sh. proceedings from 1911 on. I hope to surmount

these difficulties until revision makes them essential.

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Dr. C.Hart Merriam,

Washington,D.C

Dear Sir;

I am very grateful to you for havii^ raailod me from

your private stock out-of-print numbers of the Fauna;for withput them
the making of a Utah list would be most difficult. -ds I look at nianber
one I marvel at the great number of years yDu have been the acknowledged
leader on this subject;and I often wonder if men like yourself and
Mr. Hidgway ever really learn of the happiness your writings produce
among thousands of unknown but willing investigators. I seldom see either
the word /'mammal " or ''bird'' without calling to mind both your name azxi
that of Mr. fiidgway.

I have assunBd that your interest in grizzly skulls
is in no sense confidential; and therefore, in order to procure every
skull that is taken in this state I am giving your researches some little
publicity in the Salt Lake City papers , which reach the entire inter-
mountain country. I shall forv/ard clippings.

The past Y/ inter has been a very hard one on all forms
of wild life.Groshawks have been exceptionally numerous.

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May 8, 1917

Dr. C. Hart Merriam
7/ashington

D. C.

Dear Sir:

I am very grateful to you for having mailed me
from your private stock out-of-print numbers of the Pi^una;
for without them the making of a Utah list would be most
difficult. As I look at Number One I mcrvel at the great
number of years you have been the acknowledged leader on
this subject; and I often wonder if men like yourself and
Ut. I^idgway ever really learn of the happiness your writ-
ings produce among thousands of unknown but willing inves-
tigators. I seldom see either the word ^Wmmal^ or'TD'ird"
without calling to mind both your name and that of Mr.
Bidgway.

I have assumed that your interest in grizzly skulls

is in no sense confidential; and therefore, in order to pro-
cure every skull that is taken in this state, I am giving
your researches some little publicity in the Sale Lake City .
papers, which reach the entire inter-mountain country. I
shall forward clippings.

The past winter has been a very hard one on all
forms of wild life. Goshawks have been exceptionally numerous

Respectfully yours,

[Signed] Claude T. Barnes

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Dr. 0. Hart M«rriam»

J>%9T Sirs

i^ 1 again trouble you to answer

a few que St ions?

So you refer l^e Mlifts of IHah
to liUtreola Tison energomenos (Bangs) or to
lutorius Tison lutreoeeplialus (Harlan)?

In looking over your monograph
on the Grizzlies I tn quite olear on the distrihution
of Utahensis; but in making inquiries among very prominent
observers I find that the grissley is found in the
Wasatch and tte Uinta Mountains in the northern part of
the State • Ihfortunately, we hare no slculls for your
examination and hence X am in doubt concerning vftiat speoiet
to refer these animals to*

I have reoords of tbe ^ray ^olf
from nearly every County in Utah* ^ * correct in
referring all of th€m to Ocoidentalia?

I have reports of the existence
of Wild-cats in every county of Utib, and until better
information la at hand, I $m referring iStxem all to
your ninta« Have you any reoords of Baileyi in Vtali?

I SB pleased to inform you of Hie
disoowry of a band of twentyf ive mountain goats on
a north slope of the Uinta Mountain at the head of
Black *s Fork*

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FOREST SERVICE
WASHINGTON

Jiine £1, 1913.

District 5, Supervision
Timber 7olves.

Dr. C. Hart Merriam,

1919 Sixteenth Street,
'.Washington, D. C.

Dear Dr. Merriam:

I enclose herewith carbon copies of letters
received by the District Porester, in answer to your
request for information as to the prevalence of timber
wolves in the Southern Sierra Mountains of California.
The Stanislaus Forest has not yet reported, but the
District Porester believes that the information so far
received is authentic and reliable. As soon as we hear
from the Supervisor of the Stanislaus Porest I will be
glad to let you hear further.

Very sincerely yours.

;nc

^2^/ Porester.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

FOREST SERVICE
WASHINGTON

ADDRESS REPLY TO
THE FORESTER

AND REFER TO:

GZ

June 1, 1915.

Dr. C. Hart Merriam.

The Northumberland,

Washington, D. C.

Dear Doctor Merriam:

Three years ago when I was on the California
National Forest which lies partially in Mendocino County,
California, one of our Rangers and some of the settlers
killed a very large bear on one of the numerous forks of
Eel River. I did not see the animal, but they told very
interesting stories of its tremendous size. It was gen-
erally estimated to have weighed over twelve hundred
pounds, and presumably was a grizzly.

A day or two ago Mr. C. Stowell Smith, connected
with our San Francisco office, and who is now in the city,
was talking about his experiences on the California Forest
and I recalled the killing of this large bear. Smith said
that he secured the hide and skull and when he sent it to
be mounted in San Francisco, the taxidermist would not
believe the animal had been killed in California, stating
that it was a bear from the far north and a stranger to
the California mountains.

Dr.C.H.M.

It at once struck me that you might be greatly
Interet^ted in this matter and I mentioned your desire to
obtain unusual skulls of bears, and Smith stated that he
would be very glad indeed to show you the skull, and sell
it to you if you desired to acquire it*

Smith will not be back in San ?rancisco for about
three months, but if you are going to be on the coast this
summer and will call him up at our San Francisco office any
time after August 1st you can probably get in touch with

him. I enclose his card.

Very sincerely yours.

"X^t/^i^^L.-^^^^^,

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Assistant Forester.

Enclosure.

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURfi

FOREST SERVICE
WASHINGTON

ADDRESS REPLY TO
THE FORESTER

AND REFER TO:

GZ

June 14. 1915

Dr. C. Hart Merri

Laganitas, Cal

Dear Doctor Merrlam:

I was very glad indeed to know by your letter
of Juno 7 that the bear skull which Smith has will be a
welcome addition to your collection.

I seem to be in the skull business somewhat,
and now have another one on my hands. 7/hen I was in the
Wind River mountains, 150 miles north of Rock Springs, *^^'^'
last October one of our rangers had just killed a very
large silver tip. He offered me the hide, but I was
there with a pack outfit and had no way to carry it, so
I could not take it. It was the silver tip variety which
I in common with most other western men have always classed
as a grizzly. I incidentally askevi the ranger if he kept
tlie skull. He said he did not but he knew right where it
was and some day when he had a chance he would bring it in.
I told him to do so and when he found it to let me know
about it and I would try to see you regarding it.

To my great surprise I received a letter a few
days ago informing me that he had managed to find the skull.

Dr.C.H.M.

which had lain under ten feet of snow all winter, and was
sending it to me "by parcel post with his compliments •

m

he next day the box arrived. He says the skull has a

"bad hole in the center of the forehead where he hit it
with a mushroom bullet, and he boiled it so long that
some of the teeth fell out, but he has sent them along
in a separate package.

I did not suppose he was going to send it on
to me until he knew whether or not you v/anted it, but it
is here and can remain in the office until you come back
in the fall, or if you want it out there it can be forwarded
to you, although the parcel post on it cost 71 cents and
it may not be worth while going to that expense. Any
instructions as to sending it addressed to me here will
reach me even if I am away from the office.

I shall certainly try to hunt you up when I am
in San Francisco, which will be about the first week in

September.

Very sincerely yours.

^ tt L^y

Assistant Forester.

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AND REFER TO:

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

FOREST SERVICE
WASHINGTON

DecemlDer 8, 1916*

Dr. C. Hart Merriam,

The ITorthumberland,
Washington, D.

Dear Doctor Merriam:

C.

The man in Utah who owns that hear skull positive-

om

ly refuses to send it without he has some assurance fr
you that you will take it at some price if in reasonable
shape. He has had such assurances from the local men, at
my request, hut does not seem greatly impressed with our

responsibility.

His address is J. M. Riddle. Coy o to. Jltf^h. j
guess the best plan will be for you to write him direct
making such promises as you may feel justified in. The
local Supervisor says that it is an unusually large and
fine specimen of grizzly.

Very sincerely yours.

^^JJOL'^J\^

Assistant Forester.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

FOREST SERVICE
WASHINGTON

ADDREM REPLY TO

THE FORESTER

AND REFER TO:

Deoember 15. 1919

Supervision, Gila
Bear Skulls

Dr. C* Hart Merriam,

Northumberland Apta,

Washington^ D# C.

Dear Dr. llerriam:

If you are still desirous of securing additional bear
skulls. Supervisor Winn of the Gila Forest advises this office
that Mr. Tom o-Brien of Mimbres, New Mexico, desires to dispose
Of a number. if you will take the matter up directly with
Mr. O'Brien you will undoubtedly hear from him regarding them^

Very sincerely yours.

Assistant Forester.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

FOREST SERVICE
WASHINGTON

ADDRESS REPLY TO

THE FORESTER

AND REFER TO:

Supervision
California

April 7, 19E0

Dr* C* Hart Merriam,

Northumberland Apts#,

Washington^ !)• C,

Dear Dr. Merriam:

Referring to your discussion with Mr. Potter regarding
the securing of grazing privileges for some of the Paskenta Indians
on the California national Forests:

We took this matter up with the District Forester at
San Francisco who advises us as follows:

m m "However, District Ranger Durham did see Mr. I.
W. Warmoth, a merchant of Paskenta, to whom the Paskenta
Indians look for any advice regarding their welfare and
secured information as follows:

Andrew Freeman, one of the Indians referred to,
owns 148 acres of land near Paskenta, on which he makes
his home. All the other Indians in that section (except
the Jordan family), about four families in all, make their
home on Freeman's place and consequently Freeman has no
feed for his own horses (he has only two or three) and he
is interested in finding another place for his neighbors
to live both winter and summer. Mr. Warmoth says that
Freeman himself does not seem to want help. Mr. Warmoth
also says he was requested some time ago by the Indian
Agency to locate a place that could be purchased for about
$2500 and used as a home for the Indians now living with
Freeman. He has found that the Hoalthe place, just across
Thomas Creek from Freeman's can be purchased for $2500
and says the Indians wish to move there and use the Hender-
son Canon Range both winter and summer for their extra
ponies. None of these Indians own any cattle.

Joe Brown is an educated Indian, a kind of chief,
among them, but Durham understands he wants no grazing
privileges. He owns a house and lot at Tehama.

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Dr. Merrlam

"District Ranger Durham states that these
Indians have about 10 or 12 horses in all to graze:
that these are extra saddle stock and colts* These
Indians work as ranch hands » sheep shearers, and at
odd jobs**

The case of these Indians will be borne in mind and if
the Interior Department purchases land sufficient to carry their
stock throu^ the winter months, an effort will be made to take
care of them for the rest of the season*

Very sincerely yours.

Assistant Forester*

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FOREST SERVICE
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May 25

Dr. G. Hart Merriam,

1919 Sixteenth St. ,
V/ashington, D.

Dear Dr. Merriam:

0.

Your letter of May 24, in relation to CJrizzly
Bears, is reoeived. '

Our records do not show any particular species
as to bears, the Supervisors simply reporting the nuiaher
of bears icilled during the season and the numher they
estimate are still on their Forests.

If you are not in a hurry for this information,
and can wait until next fall, we shall be very glad indeed
to send out a letter to our Supervisors requesting them to
report as to the presence of Grrizzly Bears on their Forests
This information would come in with the annual reports in
December and January, and would probably be all available
not later than the middle of January , ,1922.

Very sincerely yours.

Assistant Forester.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

FOREST SERVICE
WASHINGTON

AODRE68 FtEPLY TO

THE FORESTER

AND REFER TO:

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Jtay 11, 1921.

Dr. C. Hart Merriam,

Laguni t as , Cal i f .
Dear Dr. Merriam:

With further reference to my letter of May
25, in which I promised yon that we would -ondertake to
secure all possible information regarding grizzly bears
on the National Forests:

Enclosed please find carbon of a letter from
the District Forester at Albuquerque, H. M. , which is
self-explanatory.

I trust you are having a pleasant summer, and
are recovering your health under the genial influence
of the California climate. With best regards.

Sincerely yours.

Assistant Forester

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

FOREST SERVICE
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GAS AND ELECTRIC BUILDING. ALBUQUERQUE. NEW MEXICO

May 18, 1922

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Dr. C. Hart Merriam,

U.S. Geographic Board,

1919 Sixteenth St.,
Washington, D.

Dear Dr. Merriam:

C.

Your letter of May 12 reached me at Altuquer-que,
as I left Washington a'oout t\iD weeks ago on my summer trip.

I am forced to confess that, although I did
promise to call to the attention of the Supervisor of the
Trinity Porest , the errors in names, I forgot all about it
for which I ask forgiveness. I have referred your letter
to the Forester's office asking tliem to take up with t.be
Supervisor of the Trinity i^orest this whole matter and ad-
vise you as soon as they hear from him.

I expect to be in San Prancisco the latter part
of June and if I have time, will try to look you up, if
you are then on the Coast.

Yery sincerely yours.

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Washington

January 2r7 , 1926.

Dr. C. Hart Merriam,
1919 16th St. ,

Washington, D. C.

Dear Dr. Merriam:

I am enclosing some mimeographed sheets con-
taining a dictionary compiled "by a couple of our men in
southern Utah, wh^ch includes a large numher of common

names in the Piute language.

I am sure you will find

this of no small amount of interest in your work.

Very sincerely yours,

Assistant Forester.

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forest service

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Washington

March 6, 19E6.

Dr. C. Hart Merriara,

1919 Sixteenth St. ,
Washington, D.

Dear Merriam:

C.

I do not exactly understand the last paragraph
of yoiir letter of ilarch 1. You say "I v/as surprised to
learn that the Forest Service has no map of the part of
southeastern Oregon covered by the Klamath Lakes Indian
Reservation". You undoubtedly meant southern or south-
western Oregon, but I do not understand your surprise that
we have no maps of an Indian Reservation. I do not know
whether the Indian Service has such a map, but ass"ume they
have, and would be delighted to ask them for one for you
unless you yourself want to make the request.

I agree with yo\ir comments on the Piute Indian
dictionary. It was interesting as a raw effort on the
part of non-technical men to get up a vocabulary of v/ords
they had checked up among the Indians, but as a dictionary
pure and simple of any Indian dialect it lacks a good deal
of being of any great value.

Very sincerely yours,

vtx^^

Assistant Forester.

United States Department of Agriculture

forest servici

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THE FORESTER

AND REFER TO

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WASHINGTON

*iay 16th 1928

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your latest book vjhioh

I have not yat had time to do ©ore than ran through vary hastily.
I laal myself highly favored to have an autographed copy and know
I shall enjoy reading it. Its fine that you have been able in your
very bttsy life to take the time to get into print some of these
old indian legends and save them from complete loss. Frank Gushing
did some of this with the Pueblos of New ^^exico but his failure ta
complete much of his notes lost all or most of his work to the
world. Too bad wasnt it.

By the way, from whence came the name Pit.? I see the .
Boad has daoided its spelling but uixEortunately there isnt a word
in it as to the origin. Id like to get something into our records
on this subject if you can furnish it without too much trouble.

I hope you saw the row I got into because of my article
in the Producer regarding Antelope. It was lots of fun and I fancy
the man who started it was willing to drop it before he got through.

Ivly recent article a short one on ^Rattlesnakes and i^orned Toads
in last w.eaks Post is bringing me a bushel of letters from all over
the west a specially from Texans some of whom berate ma for attempting
to question the word of a Texan, others to thank me and some to doubt
me. Its add how some people cling to their early notions of glass

snakes hoop snakes and that sort of fancies.

With boTst regar

.noerely

United States Department of Agriculture

FOREST service

ADDRESS REPLY TO

THE FORESTER

AND REFER TO

Washington

Fish & Game
aame Census 1927

June 25, 1928.

Dr. C. Hart Merriam,
1919 Sixteenth St. ,
V/ashington, D. C.

My dear Dr. Merriam:

Your letter of June 21 is received — my birthday
and the day I am retiring from the Forest Service. I
intend, of course, to continue on as Secretary of the
Geographic Board, having promised General Lord to do so
until he can get the secretary of the Board on a salaried
tasis throTigh legislation and until he can find scxne one
to hold down the job permanently.

No apologies were necessary for your assiimed delay
in acknowledging receipt of the big game census. I
know you are awfully busy and anyway an acknowledgment
of a thing of that kind is not an official matter.

I hope you will have a splendid summer and
plish a lot of work.

aocom-

Very sincerely yours,

WILL C. BARNES
Assistant Forester.

WILL C. BARNE5,

Ohaimuin
^ Assistant Forester. U. S. Forest oervice

MRS. A.'d. CONDON.

Executive secretary

JOHN B. LARNER.

Treasurer

President, Mr^asnington L«oan
ana Xrust C-ompany

SPONSORS

Copley Amory,

Washington, D. C.

Mrs. Avery Coonley,
Washington, D. C.

Dr. Frederick V. Covillb,

President, Washington Arts Club,
Washington, D. C.

Senator Charles Curtis,
Kansas.

Gordon Dunthorne,
Art Connoisseur,

Washington, D. C.

John Joy Edson,
Banker,

Washington, D. C.

Mrs. Frederick E. Farrington,
Chevy Chase School,

Washington, D. C.

Daniel C. French,
Sculptor,

New York City.

Mrs. Herman E. Gasch,
Washington, D. C.

Dr. George Kunz,
Gem Expert,

New York City.

Francis La Flesche,

Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D. C.

Stephen B. Mather,

Director National Parks Service,
Washington, D. C.

Charles Moore,

President, Fine Arts Commission,
Washington, D. C.

James Parmelee,

Washington, D. C.

George Foster Peabody,
Banker,

New York City.

Rev. U. G. B. Pierce,
Washington, D. C.

Hon. Gipford Pinchot,

Ex-Governor of Pennsylvania,
Washington, D. C.

Miss Janet Richards,
Lecturer,

Washington, D. C.

Franklin D. Roosevelt,

Former Asst. Secy, of the Navy,
Warm Springs, Ga.

Theodore Roosevelt,

Former Asst. Secy, of the Navy,
Oyster Bay, N. Y.

Mrs. Cabot Stevens,

Near East Relief Committee,
Washington, D. C.

Dr. Arthur Sweeney,

Pres. St. Paul Institute,
St. Paul, Minn.

Mrs. O. L. Veerhofp,

Art Connoisseur,

Washington, D. C.

Mrs. Thomas G. Winter,

Pres. Natl. Fed. Women's Clubs,
Pasadena, Calif.

Clinton Rogers Woodruff,
Author,

Philadelphia, Pa.

Indian Buffalo Hunt
Monument Committee

Executive^ Office?

353 BOND BUILDING
WASHINGTON, D. C.

Telepkone Main 3497

'>v

29 June* 1928

Ir* C, Hart Merriam,
Washington, D* C«

Dear Doctor Merriam:

Tou have doul)tle8s admired the heroic group depicted
on this letterhead in the Union Station in Washington. It
is the work of the noted sculptor » Mr. Henry K. Bush-Brown.

This Ooxnmittee^ and the Sponsors whose names appear
hereon, have noticed that there is no monument in the Na-
tion's Capital which honors and commemorates the First
Americans. They are of the opinion that no more fitting
tribute could be paid the Indians and our Early Settlers
than to have this heroic group set up permanently in a suit-
able place in Washington.

The Monument must be cast in bronze, and I am requested
by the Committee to ask you to be one of two hundred repre-
sentative American men £md women who will subscribe $250.
or more each to make up the f 50, 000. necessary to obtain
the statue, and for casting and erection.

This Committee has selected the names of invited sub-
scribers with particular care, as it is intended to place
the names of the two hundred subscribers on a bronze tablet
attached to the Monument* You will agree, I am sure, that
such a list of men and women honoring a Race of Americans
which has given our country many distinguished citizens,
should be carefully chosen, so as to give increased honor
to the project — in reality, a tribute of representative
Americans of today to those who were here before us.

Sincerely yours,

"^aS^^ C ^ / ^^^zt^^i^^^^-^e^

Chairman

WASHINGTON SHOULD HAVE A
MONUMENT TO THE INDIANS

At the present time there is no monument in
the City of Wasliington to the American Indian.
Washington is replete with monuments to
soldiers, sailors, statesmen, private citizens and
several other classes of individuals, both male
and female, but as yet no such recognition has
been afforded the American Indian, who is so
intimately connected with early American de-
velopment.

Indians visiting Washington frequently point
out that their race, which has given America so
many splendid men and women, has no memorial
in the capital.

It is now^ proposed to perpetuate in bronze
this heroic group. The Indian, with advancing
civilization, is losing rapidly his old-time roman-
tic characteristics of dress and mode of living.
The great herds of buffalo that once roamed our
Western prairies in millions have disappeared
before the settler's plow, although they are
saved from complete extermination in national
parks, game preserves and zoos.

AN EMINENT AMERICAN INDIAN
WRITES APPROVAL

On this subject Francis La Flesche, of the
Smithsonian Institution, says :

** There is nothing I know of that would
be more fitting than the Buffalo Hunt
group to serve as a monument of the past
life of the American Indian race of this
country. It will mark the time when by
force of necessity the native people of this
continent departed from their ancient mode
of living to adopt that of the Europeans
who are now filling the land. This monu-
ment group will be of historical importance,
not only to the remnants of the tribes who
once enjoyed with unrestrained freedom
all nature's bounties but also to the people
who have come from the far east and have
here founded a great government."

It is now^ proposed to raise $50,000 in order
to have this group cast in bronze, properly
mounted and placed on some attractive site in
Washington where every visitor to our capital
may see and enjoy it. This Capital of the
United States belongs to all American citizens.
It is theirs to adorn and enjoy. It is fitting
therefore that the funds needed should be col-
lected by popular subscription from every part
of the country.

Tke

inaian ijulialo xlunt

JVLontiment

An Outstanding Sculptural Triumph
of Henry K. Bush-Brown

STANDING in the great concourse of the Union
Station at Washington is a huge plaster cast
that represents one of the most picturesque and
virile phases of our early pioneer days. An
Indian hunter mounted on a rearing horse is
in the act of driving a final arrow into the al-
ready wounded and maddened buifalo bull. The
furious buffalo with lowered head is charging his
enemies. The heroic group is pictured vividly
and artistically.

The sculptor, Mr. Henry K. Bush-Brown, is
one of America's most renowned and best be-
loved sculptors. Mr. Bush-Brown won highest
honors with this heroic group at the Chicago
World's Fair. None of his many notable works
located in various parts of this country has at-
tracted more attention and favorable comment
than the ''Indian Buffalo Hunt." Thousands
of persons pass daily through the great Union
Station and the monument is always surrounded
by admiring groups. The Western Indians,
many of whom make almost annual pilgrimages
to the capital city, are invariably attracted to
the statue, and their comments as to its original-
ity and accurate detail are uniformly favorable.

Indian Buffalo Hunt Monument Committee

WILL C. BARNES,

(Jnairman
Assistant Forester, U. S. Forest Service

MRS. A. D. CONDON.

Executive Secretary

JOHN B. EARNER.

Xreasurer
President, Washington Loan and Trust Co.

Executive^ Office^
333 BOND BUILDING
WASHINGTON, D. C.

Telephone Main 3497

SPONSORS

Copley Amory

Mrs. Avery Coon ley
Dr. Frederick V. Coville
Senator Charles Curtis
Gordon Dunthorne
John Joy Edson
Mrs. Frederick E. Farrington
Daniel C. French
Mrs. Herman E. Gasch
Dr. George Kunz
Francis La Flesche
Stephen B. Mather
Charles Moore

Jamb:s Parmelee
George Foster Peabody
Rev. U. G. B. Pierce
Hon. Gifford Pinchot
Miss Janet Richards
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Mrs. Cabot Stevens
Dr. Arthur Sweeney
Mrs. O. L. Veerhoff
Mrs. Thomas G. Winter
Clinton Rogers Woodruff

This Heroic Group now stands In Union Station, Washington, 12 feet high. It Is U feet 6 Inches In length, and 5 feet wide

THE COMMIS5ION OF FINE ART5 HEARTILY ENDOR5E5 THE PROJECT

Indian Buffalo Hunt Monument Committee

WILL C. BARNES.

di airman
Assistant Forester, U. S. Forest Service

MRS. A. D. CONDON,

h,xei iilive S«»».retary

JOHN B. LARNER.

Treasurer
President, vV^asIiiiigton Loan aiij Trust Co.

Executive^ O/ficeJ^
333 BOND BUILDING
WASHINGTON. D. C.

TelepKone Alain 3497

COPLKV AmORV

^^R.>^. AVKKY COONLKY

Dr. Fredkrick V. Coviij,?:
Skn'ator Charles r'TRTi.-^

OOKDOX DrXTHORXE
.TOHX .lOY EdSOX

Mr.s. P^rederick E. F'arrixutox
Daniel C. Frexch
Mr.^. Hermax E. (iAscir
Dr. Gp:or(;e Krxz
Praxcis La Ff.esche

StEPIIEX B. ^L\TIIER

Charles Moore

SPONSORS

.Ia.mf;s Far. melee
<^rEORGE Foster Feadody
Rev. r. a. B. Fierce

HOX. GiFFORD FlXCHOT

Mlss Jaxet Richards
Fraxklix D. Roosevelt

T r I EODO R E R OOS EV E lt

.^^RS. Cabot Stevexs
Dr. Arthur Sweexey
Mrs. O. L. Veerhoff
.Mrs. Tho.mas G. Wixter
Clixtox Rogers Woodrufp

This Heroic Group now stands in Union Station, TVashington, 12 feet high. It is 14 feet 6 inches in length, and S feet wide

THE COMMISSION OF FINE ART5 HEARTILY ENDORSES THE PROJECT

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January 15, 1930

ST

California
Mount Merriam

Dr. C. Hart Merriam,

1616 Sixteenth Street WH.^
Washington, D* C.

Dear Doctor Merriam:

It gives me great pleasure to inform you that the
United States Geographic Board at its meeting on Jan-
uary 8, 1930, named a peak in your honor, in the Sierra
Nevada Moxintains, near lat. 37* 18 1/2 N* , long. 118*
46 • W.

Doubtless you have heard of this already, but it
pleased us all so much to have the pleasure of giving
this mountain your name that I want to congratulate
you personally on the board's action.

With best wishes for your continued good health.

Very sincerely yours,

Will C. Barnes,
Secretary.

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SOB North Second Ave
Phoenix

March IRth 1935

Dear Doctor and Ifrs ITerriam.

This is just to let you know v;e are prettin^ ready to driv<
hack to '""^ashin^ton for a stay of some months Dont know how i^uch
lon^^er than that .V/e simply came out h ere to stay threeor four
months and ha.Te stayed over fhree years.

ITov/ v;e have before us the J oh of decidin^^ where we are to
live in the future. However we much p:et ha^ck and do some repairs
to our apartment and clean us a lot of matters thereAfter that v;e
will try and make up our minds what to do.

''e ha.ve heen very happy and comforteihle here amon-^r so many
friends and amid so many pleasant surr oundin-^s And yet we hoth
look forvard to our return to V/ashin-^ton with real pleasure.

One of them is ^ettin^ acquainted v;ith out old frineds and
among them and at the hea.d of the list the Merriams . So look for
us one of these days

V/e shall come hy the southern route to miss the cold and sno]
and take our time meaning; to reach there about the 10th of April.

Please try a-^d arrange to have the Cherry hlossoms all out v;hen
WB arrive .

Here the whole country is one great flower hed.It has been
a fine rainy v;inter- much to the disgust of many tourists -but
it has made everything grov; like weeds. They havent had such a
spri^ig in tBn years. The whole desert is covered v;it'^ poppies
and other deert flovjers -simply acres and a-cres of them everyv;here

The stock men will haveone of the best seasons they have had
in many long lean years and are much rejoiced in conseq^uence .

TvTy Arizona llame book will be out before ma-ny days-the delays
have been awful and At times I felt like tearing out my hair in
a^'^ny. Hov;ver Schantac told me yesterda^^ it woul d be out inside
of three or four da«ys now so Im living in hope.

Meanv/hile keep your eyes peeled for us meandering down
16th Street one of these days.

V/ith best regards to you both from hoth of us

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ADDRESS REPLY TO

"DISTRICT FORESTER"

TELEPHONE KEARNY 6669

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

FOREST SERVICE
DISTRICT 5

Supervision

114 SAN80ME STREET
fmui WATreW*t^^«WK BUILUiWC

San Francisco. Calif.

May 8. 1914.

Dr* C. Hart Merriam,

lagunitas, CaL ifornia.
Dear Sir:

I quote the following from a special report of the

Sequoia National Forest to the State Pish & Game Commission

on the subject of wolves, which may he of interest to you:

'•A trapper who spent the winter near the Jordan Hot
Springs on the east side of the Zern Hiver brought in,
the pelts of six gray wolves, one lynx and one wolverine.
There had been a great deal of doubt as to the existence
of these animals in this region, and this evidence estab-
lishes the fact. I have also learned that timber wolves
have been killed in the Middle Tule River watershed on
Black Mountain and near Hossack Meadows."*

Tou will recall that last year there was consider-
able oorrespondenae on this subject and you may wish to in-
quire further as to the pelts of the wolves. Forest Supervisor
K B. Patterson, Hot Springs, California, can probably inform
you where they were delivered.

Tery truly yours.

Acting District Forester.

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
FOREST SERVICE

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FOREST SERVICE

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

FOREST SERVICE
CALIFORNIA DISTRICT

ADDRESS REFLY TO

DISTRICT FORESTER

AND REFER TO

Perry Builsins
San Francisco. California

Deeasiber 9i 1924

Supervision

Dr. C* Hart Merriami
1919 Sixteenth St.,
Washington, D.C*

Dear Sir:

17:

Reference is made to your letters of September 4 and October

I regret very much that it will not be possible for us to
furnish you copies of the latest maps of the Warner Mountain region
on the Modoc Forest and of the California Forest for several months
yet. We vill, however, send you copies as soon as they are available.
The delay is due to the large number of corrections and additions that
we have found it necessary to mjBike.

Very truly yours,

PAUL G. REDIN6T0N, District Forester,

Acting*

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

FOREST SERVICE
CALIFORN I A DISTRICT 6L,^ /

ADDRESS REPLY TO

DISTRICT FORESTER

AND REFtR TO

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FERRY BUILDINS

sW Francisco. California

Jaly 8, 1926

Thm 0# Hart Merrlamt

Lagonitas 9 dalifomia«

Dear Dr* Merrlamt

You are no doubt familiar with ^rtiat the Oommonwealth Olub is
doing in the line of investigating the condition of the California
Indiana*

le have secured a lot of the data we need for a final report,
and hope to round the subject up by next fall. One of the Pjf^*- 'f ^'^
tj 80=^ Of the parties ^o have appeared before the Club i-J^** ^^
average California Indian does not maice good use of good agricultural
JlSI^en it is furnished to him. You have had such a l^'g^/^Pf'i^^*^
i^ng the Indians of California that I am going to ask you if you will
JSHet L Save your views on this some time within the next couple of
months or at your convenience.

If it is not convenient for you to write out all of this,
perhaps we can have another taUc some time along toward fall, and I can
St t lot oHhe data in that way. The main object in ''"ing this letter
Ss to ask you to keep these points in mind and give me the benefit of
yoxir experience.

Tery sincerely yours ♦

L.a.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

FOREST SERVICE
CALIFORNIA DISTRICT

TO

DISTRICT FORESTER

AMD mrKR TO

Boundaries - Llodoc

Lava Beds IJational Moimiiient

Ferry Building
San Francisco. California

Februaiy 1, 1925

Br. C* Hart Llerriam,
1919 16th street,
Washiii^^ton, ]J*C.

Bear Br* Ijerriani:

,f. +, r ■^ ^^ sending you here^.7ith a print of a smll mD

Bxstr'.^P ''"^^ "^il ''"''"^ ^lonument, ..hi oh- was prep^rtd iT
Bistrict Ean-er Otiff. a?his sho.7s most of the points of ^^f p^oc+
As opportunity offers we shall locate more of ?hem wiS a v?'w ^
to preparing a lar^e scale up-to-date mp^

TV T . ^ I hope that you are enjoying the winter in

-/a3hx^,ton, and that I shall see you oi/h^e aJ^SnaJt spring.

^ Veiy sincerely yours.

Assistant Bistrict Forester

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United States Department of Agriculture

forest service
California Region

ADDRESS REPLY TO

REGIONAL FORESTER

AND REFER TO

PR

Information

Ferry Buildinq

San Francisco, Calif.

January 6, 1932.

Dr. 0. Hart Merriam,
Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D, C.

Dear Dr. Merriami

State Forester Pratt has sent me a copy of your letter
of December l8 addressed to I.lrs. Adeline Merriam Conner, Sacramento.

The story "How the Indians Preserved the Forests" v/as
written as a burlesque directed against the contentions of the "light
burners" in California and v/as not intended to be taken seriously.
For a number of years we have been searching for reliable information
on the so-called Indian practice of "light burning" the woods, known
locally as Piute Forestry, but have been unable to find any reliable
data. Our belief is that this "legend" originated largely with the
white man and was used by early settlers to cover up depredations
caused by their careless or incendiary use of fire.

It is knovm that the Indians of California did
occasionally start fires to drive out game or to harass their enemies,
but that this was a common yearly practice is denied by their old
chiefs*

With best wishes for the New Year.

Very sincerely yours,

S« B. SHOT, Regional Forester,

Acting,

ADDIIBS9 RBfiLT TO

DISTItlCT FORESTEIt

AND RBPIII TO

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

FOREST SERVICE
CALIFORNIA DISTRICT

FmRY Building

•an Francisco. CALiroRNiA

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January 8, I932

Dr, C. Kart Terriam,
1919 Sixteenth Street,
Washington, ^.C.

Dear Dr« I'erriam:

Your letter of January 4 is received.

I have checked over cur maps and telieve that you have
at out the latest editions with three exceptions. You do not seem
to have a copy of the Latest Tahoe map, so I am sending you one,
also the latest map of the Trinity and one of the Llodoc Lava Beds
National Monument.

I expect that you ere managing to keep tusy tack in
Washington this winter, and look forward v.dth pleasure to having
you call on us again next suwiier.

Very sincerely yours,

Enclosure.

Assistant Regional Forester,

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PUBLIC MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF MILWAUKEE.

Henry Lt \Mard, Director.

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHBOFOLOQT.

S. A. Barrett, Curator.

Mflwattkee, Wis., wlav 7, 1910.

T>r. C. Hart Merriam,

Chief of the United States Biological f5urTey,

Washington, I^, C.

My dear l^octor ITerriam:-

'I received with great pleasure the other
day from your jpublishers in Cleveland, a copy of your "The Dawn of
the ^orld" which I am at the present time reading with much inter-
est. Please accept my most sincere ' thanks for this favor.

With kindest regards to yourself and family, I am

T^ery sincerely yours,

OFFICI OF THE DIRECTOR

MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM

MILWAUKEE. WISCONSIN

•• *• ■ARUBTT. OmacToii

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April

Eleventh
19 3 3

Dr. 0. Hart Merriam
Washington, D. c,

% dear Dr. Merriam:

the name o?%r ^Gi??^^! °°^®^ ^ am forwarding. ^
the Miwok Material C,n J, ^"'^ "^^^^^^ ourjo?i?^.*° ^°^ ^^
much interested ?; iS^^®' ^ know that Jo,, o^®"" °^
find items In ?hl? ^^ ""^^ion and itoL^iLt''^ ^^^^
you. ^" *^^s paper which will be S? ?^* ^^"^ ^^^^

■^ oe of interest to

With kindest pe^qnnoi ^

Pe-sonal regards, believe me

Very truly yours
SAB:VS S. A. Barrett, Direct^''' ^'

Milwaukee Public Museum

MILWAUKEE. WISCONSIN

S. A. BARRETT. DIRECTOR

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR

December
Eighth
19 3 3

^^

Dr. G. Hart Merriam
1919 Sixteenth 5t.
Washington, D. C.

My dear Dr. Merriam:

I am in receipt of your favor of December 4
and am at a loss to account for the fact that the
copy of "Miwok Material Culture did not reach you* ^
I am, hov/ever, sending another copy and am enclosing
in the same package a copy of my 'Aztalan and my
"Pomo Myths" thinking that these m.ay 1» of interest
to you.

Trusting that these will reach you safely
this time, I remain

Very truly yours.

SAB : VS

S. A. Barrett, Director

Milwaukee Public Museum

MILWAUKEE. WISCONSIN
8. A. BARRETT. DIRECTOR

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR

D© cember
Twenty-sixth
19 3 3

Dr. C. Hart Merrlam
1919 Sixteenth St.
Washington, D* C.

My dear Dr* Merrlam:

I am In receipt of your favor of the
19th and wish to say that I appreciate very much
your very complimentary observations concerning
the publications which we have just sent you.
I know precisely how you feel about such
iinpublished results of one's work. When other
matters press so much from day to day. It seems
almost a hopeless task to get one's writing
done.

I sincerely trust you will have the
pleasure of seeing your fine work, which you
have done for so many years, In print before
long.

May I wish Mrs. Merrlam and yourself
the best of the season's greetings and express
the hope that we shall be able to exchange
such greetings for many years to come.

Very truly yoxirs.

UICTATED DUT NOT READ

SAB:VS

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February 29,191

Dr. C. Hart Merriam,

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Dear Dr. Merriam: -

I find that I have sent you not only mj' National Academy paper
hut on Decemher 10th. 1914. I sent you a copy of ray last paper entitled
"Further Uotes on Meteor Crater. Arizona" read before the Academy of
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. September 1914. If you have not a
copy of this I shall be glad to send you an extra copy of this paper.
I also send you. for return to me, since you have been pood enoufh to
express such an interest in the matter, an address which I made at the
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. January 18th, 1915. Dean
Itogie of Princeton shared the evening with me. I dothls with a double
purpose. First to assure you that the origin of the crater has long
since been proved, any member of the U.S.G.S. to the contrary notwith-
standing. Secondly, to ask you whether you think the members of the
Boone and Crockett Club would be interested in bearing a talk of this

sort abuidently Illustrated by some splendid lantern slides which we

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have had made. You will remember some years ago atyi^ashington meeting

Osborn made a distinctly sclent if ic talk. The subject is of profound

Interest, as the paper which I am sending you today brings out. I put

the same question up to Grinnell. While he is very much interested.

DANIEL MOREAU BARRINGER

370 BULLITT BUILDING

PHILADELPHIA. PA.

#2 Dr.C.H.M. 2/29/16

he seems to be in doubt as to whether the other members of the Boone
and Crockett Club would be. Of course nothing is further from my desire
than to talk to them unless they would be really greatly interested in
what I have to say, but having made the discovery, which statement can
be verified by men like Elihu Thomson, Lfegie, Branner, Fairchild,Hovey,
George P. Merrill, Gregory, Zuntz ^nd others of scientific attainments
and reputation, I have thought that perhaps the members of the Club or
a sufficiently large proportion of them might be interested in hearing
about it. As I bring out in the paper which I am sending you today.
It is of far reaching importance from a scientific point of view, for
It is the first tangible evidence on a big scale that we have in corrob-
oration of the theory of Moulton and Chamberlin with legard to world making.
The great wonder to me is that these men have not taken the trouble to
visit the crater. All the men who still believe in Gilbert's really
absurd explanation of the origin of the crater, that of a steam explosion,
have never visited the locality, excepting Merrill of the Smithsonian
Institution. He not only recanted when he saw the additional evidence
which our painstaking work had disclosed in favor of the impact theory
but he wrote quite an important monograph '*The Meteor Crater of Canyon
Diablo, Arizona; its History, Origin, and Associated Meteoric Irons".
On the other hand every man of scientific attainment who has visited the
crater since I acquired title to it and have done so much exploration
work, has pronounced himself In favor of the i.Tipact theory of origin.

It 18 really Impossible for them to do otherwise.

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DANIEL MOREAXJ BARRINGER

370 BUI-IITT BULLDINO

PHILAnEX.PHIA . PA.

#3 Dr.C H.M. 2/29/16

I also send you a newspaper clipping desoribinp the big turkey
which was killed at Woodmont Club and which, by the by, I took home
from the Academy of Natural Sciences only last night. I hope some day
to Bh07j him to ;,ou. The clipping which I send you appeared in a Balti-
more jpaper, but the editor omitted to include what I think^to the public
at leasl^ was the most interev^ting part of ray letter to Mr. Bridges.
I have attached this portion to the clipping, indicating the place on
the clipping where this should be inserted, in case you wish the same

for future reference.

It was a great pleasure to see you last Saturday evening.

Very sincerely yours.

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What is thought by many to have yt
been the largest wild turkey on record in j ij
the United States was killed during the
last season at the Woodmont Rod and
Gun Club in Western ^laryland. The
gobbler weighed 34 pounds. It was shot
bv Henry P. Bridges, the secretary of
the club. :Mr. Bridges presented the
bird to Daniel Moreau Barringer, of
Philadelphia, who had it mounted by
an expert from the Philadelphia Acad-
cmv of Natural Sciences.

The following extract from a letter
written by Mr. Barringer to Mr.
Bridges gives some interesting data con-
cerning wild turkeys:

"You wil be interested to know
that the big turkey has been mounted
by Mr. ^tcCadden, of the Academy ot
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and
is wonderfully lifelike. He is repre-
Fented as walking, the hindfoot partly
laised to take the next step, but with
his head thrown up and turned slightly,
in an attitude of strict attention, as if
he had just heard something suspicious
and had stopped before completing the
step. I shall have some photographs
t-ken of him and probably have one
enlarged to be hung in the clubhouse.

"You will also be interested to know
that Dr. Witmer Stone, one of the
leading ornithologists of America, if
not of the world, immediately recog-
nized the turkey as most closely re-
sembling what is known as Merriam's
turkey of New Mexico. He brought
down from the museum one of these
birds and we compared it feather foi
I feather and there is practically no varia-
tion excepting that this turkey is enor-
mously larger than the Mexican speci-
men. Doctor Stone says there can be
no doubt that the bird is descended
from this particular variety of Mexican
turkey.';^ Doctor Stone also said that
he had never seen a wild turkey which
approached in size to this great gob-
bler."

Sailed For Tbe Sontb.

The following passengers sailed last
evening on the Merchants and Miners'
steamer Merrimack, Capt. S. T. Her-
bert, bound for the South:

Doctor and Mrs. Cook, J. K. Flick,
Pedro Mikaliennas, Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Cardiff, Miss Cardiff, Mrs. T. J. Malone,
A. L. Horner, George M. Gorder, I. J.
Jasoeby, the Reverend and Mrs. E. F.
Mundv, Dr. Charles T. Barnes, Mr. and
Mrs. T. P. Carey, Mrs. J. Malm, W. H.
Batchelor. John Hoppin, John H. Rob-
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"He tells me that there are three varieties of Mexican turkey.
One inhabits the low lands near Vera Cruz, from which, by the

by, he tells me that all the domestic turkeys of the world are
descended, since this was the turkey that the early Spanish
explorers took back to Spain, Second, a turkey that is found
in northern Mexico along the Rio Grande, and third. Merriam's
turkey which, as I understand, is found in the Cordillera and ranges
into Hew Mexico and Southern Arizona.

There is no doubt that the plumage of this big gobbler more
closely resembles Merriam's turkey than any other. In fact I
could see practically no difference between the two skins. Dr.
Stone, however, says that the wattles on this big gobbler are very
much larger than those which he has ever seen on Merriam's turkey
and thtt in siz« the bird is enormously larger. He also said
that he has never seen a wild turkey which approached in size
this great gobbler and he expressed the same doubt which I ex-
pressed, namely, that you will never kill another one as bigp.
He had a good chance to look at the bird before it was skinned
and was greatly interested in it."

DANIEL MOREAU RARRINGER

370 BULLITT BITILDING

PHILADELPHIA . PA-

March 22,1916-

Dr, C. Hart Merriam^

The Northumberland,

Washinpton, D. C

Dear Sir:-

In Mr. Barr inker's absence I "bef to

ac^rnowledge receipt of your letter of March 21st re-
turning the copy of his lecture on Meteor Crater. Mr
Barrinfer expects to return to his office the latter
part of this week at 7;hich time I will hand your

letter to him.

Yours truly,

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Berkeley. California

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Pr# (/• H« Merriam,
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I ■aiiclorstaiid from Dr. Josox^h Grinnoll of tlie
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meeting at San Francisco diiri*-"- tlio Exposition yeai*. Before the

.Vashii^ton neetine^ occurs I want to present to you the plans which
are being made for tlie convention of the ^ericmi Association for
the -advancement of science in 3an Francisco and vicinity in 1915.

The date for this convention has been definitely set for Aug.

2-6.

The ccnimittoe in general charge of tlie 7oro^ra^

this

convention, of v/luch President Johai ^asper Branner of otanfor

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University is the Cliairnan, is ver^^ uesirous that all of ""
national zoological societies which are plaiming to hold San Fran-
cisco rneetl.^^s du.. ....;2: 1915 she lI^. ^--wint theb^^ .acjetiag^'s ciu.iu-r

at this ti:ne of the convoaticn of i ^le ijnerican Association for the

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'i^'^e adjacent to tlx^ first week in

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open 11^ q:.

.11 sernoster, we are able to offer you abxmdcmt

meetini^ sx^ace either in San Frtuicisco, or in tlie halls of ^tan-
foru. uiiivurb^ .^ 4:1^x0 ^Ito, or of tlie Uuivgrsiuv 01 .vaiiiorida
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Proc^atn, let me then extend to the -uinerican Ornithologists'

Union a most cordial invitation to place its San Frmicisco ''icetinr;

in 1915 in conjunctior Ith the convention of th . :ericr

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elation early in ^u^jiist. If this su£:c.'estion is agreeable to you,

msTj I furtlier su£'gest that the Union do not attempt to fiz the uuy

of its kian I'rancisco meetiur^- but in order to avoid appointments

conflicting v;ith those of other related societioG it empower an

appropriate committee or representative to confer in this regard

with a special program co'i'^aittee for zoological societies axn)ointed

by JL resident *^raiaier«

2his 3i>ecial pr^^. committee for zoological societies

is composed of the following members:

Professor 0, ^i. Jiofoid, (jluiin.uai, Jniversity of California.
Professor V. L. xiellogg, Stanford University.
Professor 0. ^.. Gilbert, Stanford University.
Professor Harold Heath, Stanford University.

Lr. B. v/. iiVermann, Director California academy of Ljciences
Dr. ;^:-i. L. Patter, Director Ccripp Foundation for 3iologic:j-l

1,0 search.
Dr. Joseph G-rinnell, Director I.Iuseura of Vertebrate lioologv,

University of ^:.liforii"* - .

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ii^ TiiiQ aevolopment of plaiis for tlr

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ical meotincs aside from ^litttever :-ieetii:^ ;he national zoological

sociatier" -

such meeti

;hooae to hold. *^eajiwlaile I can assure you tlictt

ill "be helu. and

we shall be i^elau of your

co-Oi^erat a.^_L in preparing for them.

accoimt of th ^lort time now remaininfr before tlie

meeting of trie' lean Ornithologists* Union, I ■.. also

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along these lines to i;r« im u. vjliapiaan, Presiaont of the ^nerican
Ornithologists* Union, to i)r* a^. a^^. lischer and to i..r. Joseph
ji^aillard, i^cux xxctixcisco,

I shall be pleased to carry to the conoittee here yoxir
conment upon tliis invitation bh^^ .:iese sup-^e'^tions, r--^'-^ I triist
that Wie ^nerican Ornithologists* Union will be cordially disposed
towat'd representation in this v/ay in tlie Gan Francisco convention
of tlie .American -ii.ssociauj.uj.i next year.

Yeiy sincerely yours

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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENC

Berkeley. California

University of California Library,
September 8, 19 14.

Dr. G. Hart Llerriam,

la^onitas,

California.

My dear Dr. Uerriam:

In the development of the plans for the
oan Francisco meeting of the -American xj^ssociation for the ad-
vancement of ocience, ^^ug^ast 2-7, 1915, President John Casper
Brainier of i^tanford University lias appointed the following
committee to t^ike charge of meetings concerned with zoological
matters on that occasions

Professor
Professor
Professor

Professor
Professor

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Professor

G. ^. Kofoid, chairman, University of California

V. L. ilellogg, Stanford University

;V. E. lUtter, dcripps Institution for Biological

He search, La Jolla
G. H. Gilbert, iitanford University
Joseph Grinnell, University of California
Evermann, California Academy of Liciences, l^an Fran-
cisco
H. B. Torrey, Keed College, Portland, Ore.

Professor Xofoid, the Chairman of this Committee, is writing
to you asking you to accept the chairmanshii:) of a si^ecial com-
mittee concerned with zoological excxirsions during the convoca-
tion week of the dissociation next year. I hope that you will
consent to undertake this activity.

I am enclosing with this a copy of a circular of invi-
tation which has been extended to several zoolopioal societies

asking them to a.^point meetings in conjunction with the meetings
of the i^jnerican dissociation, also a list of the societies

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so addressed, a list of the coonittees concerned with the
development of the zoological program and a statement of the
tentative plans thus far developed for the meetin/Ts in zoology,

1 shall be glad to serve you in any way in the
conmittee's preparations for exciu'sions next year*

Very sincerely yours,

dissociate secretary.

Pacific Division

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE

Berkeley. California

September 17, 1914.

l!y dear Dr. Kerriam:

I thank you for yoiir letter of
Septem"ber 11th and for your acceptance of
professor Kofoid's request to assist in making
plans concerned with the meetings in Zoology
during convocation week of the A^^erican Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science, Aug*ust 2-7,
1915, by acting as Chairman of the Zoology jlxcur-
sion Committee. It is not expected to place any
financial obligations upon this Committee, but
rather to ask this Committee to adrise a general
excursion committee in regard to excursions which
will be of esr-ecial interest to zoologists.

As Professor Kofoid suggested, I belie ve"JAi^
you will rind Professor i<*isher ready to assist
in any m.atters of detail. 'Fills office is ready to
carry on whatever correspondence can be placed in
my hands.

yerjr sincerely yours,

alb/lj

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Associate Secretary,

Dr. C. Fart Merriam,

Lagunitas {lv!arin Co.),
Oalif*ornia.

Pacific Division

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE

University of California Library,
Berkeley, California,
^ \ July 12, 1915

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Dr. C.Hart Herri am,

Lagnnltaa (Marin County) ,
California.

My dear Dr.Merriam:

^ fith tlxlja Id enoloeeljk
Bemoranduii in regard to the ezoursion
for soologieta whioh you Ixare oonsented
te oonduot to Mair Woods and Mt« Xamal*
pals on Saturday, August 7th«
* , ^^ . -^^ Ver y Irftieerely yours ,

ALB/LJ

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Berkeley, California,

2h*« 0, Bart Merriam,

Lagronltae, Calif or uia«

Uy dear Dr. Uerriam;

Professor Kofoid suggests that in oonneotion with
your paper upon the big bears of Western Arerioa that it may
be possible for you to bring with you a series of skulls for
demonstration* f^ are arranging for demonstrations in
connection with several papers to be presented during the
soological meetings* Mr, Tracy !• Storer of the Musem of
Vertebrate Zoology will assist you in displaying these skulls,
and if you can bring them, may I suggest that you take up the
matter directly with lir« 3torer«

7ezy si no ere ly yours.

Secretary, Pacific Division

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

OKPARTMCNT OP ZOOLOQV

BERKELEY. CALIFORNIA

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January 11, 1916.

Dr. G* Hart i^erriam,
Lagunitas,
iuLirine County,
California.

Dear Dr. iierriam:

One of the courses given by the Department of Zoolo(^j here dur-
ing the spring semester, Zoology 19, aims to present features of special
interest in faunistics. if you should be planning to cone to Berkeley
at some time during the current se:n..ster, we shall be very aporeciative
if you may be willin,c^ to present one of the lectures in this course, per-
haps dealing with the results of your lon.c. researches on bears of l^orth
America, their history, recent distribution foid present restricted range.
Tao lectures are gi /en Monday afternoons at 4 p. ^, in Hoom 101 East Hall.

Ihis course is open to the public, the registration has usual y
been large, and tie total attendance with auditors not formally registered
has frequently reached 100 persons. '2he lectures have been oresented in
popular form so as to neet the general interest of t lose who^cnme to the
course who are not professional biologists. '.?e believe that a lecture
from you in regard to so characteristically an iunerican animal as the bears
will be very appropriate in tMs series of lectures and we shall feel that
this course has been greatly enriched if you may be able to present tbir^
discussion.

It would accord well witli the calendar for other lectures in
this course if you might be able to present this discussion of the bears
at the meeting of the class on February twenty-first. If, however, this
should not be convenient and you are to be in Berkeley on Uonday of some
other week we shall be fully as appreciative of your courtesy if you would
consent to talk to this class at another time than February twenty-first.
If there is another subject than the one suggested in which -^ou are now
especially interested and which could be given a popular treatment before
a class of tiis nature, please do not feel confineu to the subject of bears,

Very sincerely yours,
Secretary, Department of 2oolof^y.

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December 30, 1926 •

Dr. C. Hart Merriam,
c/o Cosmos Club,
Washington, D. C,

Dear Dr. Merriam:

Accepo my hearty thanks for your kindness in remembering me ^vith coDi^s or
your two articles - "The Buffalo in Northeastern California^^d^sSrce of Se
Name Shasta". I shall read both of these with interest.

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Dr. C. Hart Merriam
Washington D • C •
My Dear Doctor :-

Reply iiiig to yotir favor of Llarch
16th. , asking information as to attacks made on
whitemen by bear in this vicinity, I would say that
in my practice I have been called upon to dress the
wounds of two man who were attacked by brov/n bear
in the lastv ive years. In both cases the attacks
were absolutely without provacation.

On October 13th., 1913 Otto Bergstrom a farmer
living four miles from Seward \ms returning to his
home in the evening when without any warning at all
he was charged by a brovm bear, a female I believe.
Bergstrom was knocked down and chewed up pretty badly
especially about the head and shoulders* I was called
and dressed over seventy v/ounds, of which more tlian
sixty were below the neck* His scalp was badly
lascerated by the bear trying to crush his head in
its mouth and on account of the size of Bergstrom's
head this v/as impossible • Bergstrom was in the hospital
for a month or more but has since recovered and is
still living in Seward.

On July 20th. , 1919 Harry Johnston, a prospector w
was attacked by a bro\7n bear on Skeen Liountain, about
25 miles from Seward. LIr Johnston was climbing the
mountain and \7as unarmed , with nothing but a shovel
in his hands, '-^'he bear charger"^ him from above, but
Johnston sidestepped the brute and tried to run away.
The bear soon caught him and after knocking him
down and badly chev/ing and biting him moved away, but
when Johnston tried to crawl away, the bear returned
and again mangled the wounded man. \7hen the bear
finall left, Johnston lay still for a long time and
then made his way to the llialroad track where he was
picked up and brought to Seward ''oj tho s^ection crew
on a hand car and I dre§§ed his wounds, -^e was badly
chewed all over t^ie body, arms, legs, bd)dy and
shoulders being badly lascerated. LIr Johnston still
live§ in Seward.

I loiow t'lese cases well as I attended t'lom and have
the story direct from the men who were attacked.

I consider them absolutely reliable and thinlc
th^t you may safely do the same

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GAME WARDEN'S OFFICE

Alaska,

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111 1911, Chas V/ard a prospector v/as traveling
along the Lloose Pass Trail, about thirty mioes fror

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In October 1913, while hunting at Port Holler on
the Bering Sea, two natives stalkea a brovm bear and
shot and hilled it. As soon as they had killed the
bear, another bear charged thera and loiocked both of
them down, and killed one. "J-ne name of -cne man killed
was Govely McKeilly, ana nis nome v;as at Port Holler
Alaska. His companion waf3 Dadly wounded but tfie Dear
left iiim, evidently for d md and he was picked up
by a party of natives and is alive at this time.

of brovm bear

'■^'here havo been nuinerous instsnces
charging hunters when fired upon, or wounded, all well
authenticated, but you are not interested in them I
believe* Bear hunters in this section stste that the
male is the most dangerous in the spring of f^:e year ci
shortly after the bears come out of their holes/

The female will almost always trji to get away
even v/hen she has cubs with her acoording'to reports
but t" e male brown bear is a dangerous customer in
the spring of t'le year or at any time when ho is
provoked.

I will try and get you some bear skulls later in
the season and v;ill take pleasu-j ) in sendin.fr them to

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slight value to you, and with bo:-::t wishes, I am,

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Fenruary . 5 rd . 2 3 .

Dr C Hart Merriam.
1919 Sixteenth. St.
Waf5hin,rton.D.C .

My Dear Sir.

Your letter of Jan. 1 7th. received today and will say
that i have no hand around 20 Grizzly bear skull, s. and all a^eXS.and size
i have some very old Male »kuli:;35.also fenaleQs.I have one old^ale skull
that is very old and massive have several other old male skullCs. large but
not as massive, also so-me very nice old female skuli:;>j .and young skuli:;:^.
ill these bear was killed in the middle and southern end of the Yukon most
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had H.Chambers. of Champaihe .Y.T .ship a large slcull to you for me and you
iMXjtftfi made a return on the skull of $4^. 00. this large skull that i have
on hand now is just such a skull as that one was. the next largest male
skull that i have was killed on the head water^s.of the Gemic River. in
the White River District the past fall. so will be glad to near rrom you
againe in regards to bear skull or any thing else that you might want from
up in this Territory.

yours very truly.

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BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY,

WASHINGTON, D. C.

Lander, Wyoming.
December 10, 1915.

Dr. C. Hart Merriam
Washington D. C.

Dear Dr. :

Ypur letter of IToYerri"ber 15, relative to grizzly "bear skulls

is received.

I have already located on g. and have written the party this

day to find cut whether or not he will dispose of tt, and will for-
ward it to you as soon as possible, in case it can he purchased.

I infer from your letter that you desire a good many, Q.>t^

special effort will he made to secure them.

Ycry truly yours.

datorT Animal Inspector

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY,

WASHINGTON, D. C.

Lander , Wy
Fel3ruary 12, 1916.

Mr, C. Hart Merriam

Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:

Regret to state that the party that killed the grizzly
"bear, and from whom I expected to secure the skull from, failed
to "bring in the skull upon killing the hear,

HoweTer, as soon as the snov; goes in the spring, I
shall try and see if the skull in question ean be found*

Very truly yours.

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Predatory minimal Inspector.

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY

WASHINGTON, D. C.

Lander, Wyoming.
October 4, 1916.

Mr. 0, Hart Marriam
Washington, D. 0,
Dear Sir:

Enclosed under separate cover, I am sending X\(>n^
you 1 grizzly bear skull, but so far liave been un- ^^-^'^dp^
able to get in touch, with the hunter to find out v/hat ' ^
the sex of this animal was. Hov/ever, as soon as this in--«
format ?:on is received, it will be imftediately forward- ^^^"^^x
ed to you.

0,

Mr. Moffat also sent in a huge grizzly skull
which was taken at the same time and place, but it was ^ n
shot thru the brain cavity and disfigures the back end: -jvL
of the skull. Shall I SQBd it t(^you? I am sorry that ^'-^-f-p^*^ q
it was damuged, as it is certainly a dandy. I think
that this v/as the mother of the one I am sending to ;/ou
today. ^4^^^^^

Mr. Moffat is leaving the value of those skulls
to your judgement, and as he is a poor man, would like
to have their full value.

Ver;/ truly yours, .

Predatory Aninit^.1 Inspector.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY

WASHINGTON, D. C.

Lander, Wyo.lng.
November 1, 1916,

Mr. C. Hart Llerriain

Washington, D, C.
Dear Sir:

Your letter of October 14, is received.

I am sending this day, the grizzly bear skull by mail in two

parcels. The skull v/hen packed weighed over 4 lbs., or I would have made
one p£ircel of it. \i ' » i ' ^^ *» )

I have been unable to get in touch v/ith Mr. Moffat, as I know it
is essential to have the sex of these animals; but I shall keep on trying
to secure the information desired.

His initials are: J, T., cond his last knovi^ address v/as Afton,
Wyoming. However, it might be well to wait about sending the money until
v/e can locate him again.

I shall write you immediately upon hearing from Mr. Moffat; and
am sorry that I have been unable to furnish a complete description of these
animals •

Vej»y truly y urs,

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BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY

WASHINGTON. D. C.

Lander, V/yoming.
November 27, 1916,

Dr. C. Hart Llerriam
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

Your letter of November 8, is received, also the chock for

§30.00, which anount is being forwarded to J. T. Moffat, for two grizzly

bear skulls. I am sure that Mr. Moffat will appreciate getting a good

J.
price for these skulls, and will be an incentive for him to collect more

if possible.

These bear v/ere both females, v/hich information will enable

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I shall keep my eyes open for more grizzly skulls, and if
I find any good specimens I shall mail them to you immediately, to-
gether vath the information desired on the labeling tag.

I am returning the voucher properly signed, to the Disbursing

Agent.

I shall be very glad to assist you in collecting any other

specimens that v/e have in this section, so feel at liberty to call on

me at any time.

Very truly yours,

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June 28, 1921.

Dr* C. Hart Merriam,

1919 Sixteenth St*. N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Dr. Merriam:

I enclose a copy of an article which I think will interest you.
I do not toiow whether you would care to drop a line to the editor of
the Woman's Home Companion, 381 Fourth Aveune, New York City, con-
gratulating her on her courage in permitting the truth to be told.
She will lose niany subscribers and te subjected to a torrent of abuse
from the antiviviseotionists, and I want to offset this to a certain
extent by letters of approval from sane people whose opinions are worth
having.

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Dr« C. Hart Merriam,
1919 ^ 16th Street,

Washington, D. C.

Dear Dr. Merriam:

May I take the
privilege of extending n^^ hearty
congratulations to you upon receiving
the award of the Roosevelt Distinquished
Service Medal. I am delighted and the
news is a source of deep satisfaction
to me. The addition of your name to
the list adds immeasurably to the
value of those received by the rest
of us.

I am exceedingly
proud to be associated with the men
the committee have selected - whether
I deserve it or not is not a matter
for me to say, but I know that you
do deserve it.

Gobd luck to you.

Cordially yours.

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LOS ANGELES

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Wliihlngtoat D*0»

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COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY. U.S.C.

304 E. FIFTH STREET

LOS ANGELES

a« «b« r«e«vtiea y&kldh tmi affioxdad m irtillo I «ms in fftihiasten

last sprlBf *

X bar* a f«v faaaU im^rtllorataa vhloh X will acM aooa if
I do net fim tlB« to go afi«r mmto* Oa aome of w oolJo^otlaf
trlpa X baTo fathorod hvnAroda of thai in oao <Uar« X havo
alvaya givon ihmt mraqr*

llr*oarinnoll baa writton to ao tvioo lataly rogardiag tho
apooiaoaa of fkonooomroT wliioh x baro and urgoa ao not to lot
tboa go out Of tlio aiato* KowoTtVtXou son bavo doao ao aoob
anro for ao tban baa tta w evn atato tbat if X do give them
away you Aall aoroXy baro tbta*

X fool guilty, in a way. for koeping thoa for X know that in
mrepoar baala tboy would bo of wkuA MUpo valuo*

«.JLl you 9loaao oonroy ay kind rogarta to ]CF*]lillor,l[r«Bailoy
and to tho so abo abido undor you boao roof ^wboaro X qpoat aaob an
oajoyabla ovoniag X aoda ay boat wiAoa*

MOT* 37, 1911 •

Your a ainoarolyt

Ixr^Gl^

WM. BEBB. SECRETARY

COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY. U.S.C.

304 E. FIFTH STREET

LOS ANGELES

Dr.o.Haxt M«rpla«,

1919 Sixteenth 8t«

Waihlngton»D«C*

Dear doctor llerrlaa:-

Your letter* are always a boon

te a .truggling young aolentlat like weelf and
I feel truly grateful to you for taking the tiiie
fro. yotir touar life to off «r your help and encourage-

Bent in this aannar*

I xnow of nothing whirth I would enjoy
than to apend a day under your hoepltable roof at
Lagunita* and I will lire in anticipation of enjoying
that privilege »«■» of these days.

I wiA that llra.Bel>h and myself oo«e time,
mii^t have the pleasure of the ooaqpnay of yourself

family

I hare an

omaaental botanical garden, planted exolusiToly te
oalifornit natives, which aglht be of interest te
you in planting your ne» home grounds.

Ihat I am partioulary interested in now ia
in asking if I oan not solicit you or some of your
assistants in saving for m. the or^lajf mxdti animals
die in your zoological gardens.that you do not

want*

I am particularly intarested in

/^ the patholiotical conditions found in the teeth and

WM. BEBB. SECRETARY

COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY. U.S.C.

304 E. FIFTH STREET

LOS ANGELES

bony supports of the domestic and oaptlve anlnals«

It is not of Ixnportanoe to me that I know
the locality from Bhloh the specimens came; The only
data of value Is to know how long the animal was a
captlTe# If the cpsolmen lAiows any partloulary
interstlne condition it is of additional yalue ts
know the character of tiie food whlc n It was glyen and
the conditions of light air etc« vmOjn which it was
held oaptiye« I prefer the heads unoleaned, simply
presrred in a strong salt hrlne« A novice in
cleaning specimens of this ciOiarcter will often do
the work to thoroughly by remoring claciQus etc^ which ^
to m^ ax€of valuer

Prof#Ulller spoke to me about saving
such specimens for me as they did not want but I
am so ashamed of myself that I did not get for him
a single specimen in lurope UUitllhlunpe not the heart
to tiyuble him furthur^

I am in hopes some of the specimens shichi
now have would be value to him or to you in exchange
for this effort on your part#

Soma of the things which I have which may
be of ineterst sbioh I, would exohange are the
small weasel which I collected at Mineral King»
The one speciman of Applodontia from Ulmeral King«

WM. BEBB. SECRETARY

COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY. U.S.C.

304 E. FIFTH STREET

LOS ANGELES

I have two large Ukaok bats trom Alhaaibra uhloh

appeal to ae to be tbtb. I have a sorlea of watecr

ohrew from Mineral Klng#

1 liave a large aerlea of aoles from Alhambra^
(forty Im all#)

Theme are some of my speolmens whloh seem;^o
me to bMood uhloh I woiad gladUBy exohange for materia:
from the Zoo«

I also hare many other things whloh might
be of servloe to you«

I expeot to go Into the field for two months
this summer and doubtless will aoqulre some moee
good material at that tlma«

If you oan be of any help to me alomg the
lines suggested Icnow that I would be very thankful
to you»

Feby^ir, 1912 1

Yours sincerely^

Uir:^\jU

WM. BEBB, SECRETARY

COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY. U.S.C.

304 E. FIFTH STREET

LOS ANGELES

Dr.C^Kart Uerriaa^

1919 Sixteenth St»

Washlngton^D^O

Dear dootor Merrlam:-

anxlous to add to o\ir

oollectlon aooe of the lArger animal 03rania#

May I trouble you to tell me, if you are
able to do eo^nh ether the following prioesyquoted

i liondon firmware riglit or

Afrioan zliinooerost

Indian *

Tapir^

Hyena maoulata,

* atriota,
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304 E. FIFTH STREET

LOS ANGELES

Dr*C»Hart llarria m

1919 Sixteenth St«f

Washington^ D«c«

Sear dootor Merriaa:**

I regret rer^ snioh that your memoir

has not Berved you oorreotly and that 1 can not have

the pleasure of sending you a Orlzzly from the Wasatcdi

aountalns«

Z thought that I had a grlzsly but

you pronounced the speelmen that of a yexy large blaok
bear^ KoveTeorfl take pleasure In making you a
present of the spec iment trusting that it may be of some
value to you#

The student who brought it to me said that it
was taken about ten miles from UantitUtcili^

Z talked with him yesterday and he says that it
was from a rery large animal and supposed by those
who saw it to be a grizzly* He said that another
large bear had been killed by a hunter frog his town
the past winter* If this was not a grizzly he said
he would not be willing to say whether the one reoenily

killed was one or not«

If you will write to his father^Mr^A^P^Voorhaest
MantitUtah«you can doubtless get into touch with the
party who now has it and have the use of it*

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COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY, U.S.C.

304 E. FIFTH STREET

LOS ANGELES

l(r«YooAee« appears to be a wealthy oattle owncor
rroa that leoality and I dotbt not would be of the kind
who would be of aaalatanoe In obtaining a qpeolmen f«r

you*

If I oan be ef any eenrioe to you know that

Z would be only too glad to have you ooamand ae*

Apr*l8, 1912*

Tours slnoerely^

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WM. BEBB. SECRETARY

COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY. U.S.C.

304 E. FIFTH STREET

LOS ANGELES

1^

Dr •C.Hart Merriam,

Was]iington,D*C,

Dear doctor Merriam:-

If you are still interested

in the Ursidae perhaps the following bear stories

will "be of interest to you*

It was just told to me by one of our
students that a Mr .Milton MoodyC forest ranger)
St. George jUtah had killed grizzley bear.

Mr.Ralph Hopping recetly told me that
onedi? his rangers in the King^s river canyoi^,
had seen a female black bear with three c)(ub8.

He thought that this was an unusual
occurence and one of interest.

Will you tell me have Peroganathus( if
that is the manner of spelling the beast) been
taken at 6500 altitude among the firs and pines?

I caught one stray specimen this suaiBBr
the only one I have ever seen in such a locality.

I also caught a flying sqlirrel at
7500 altitude in the Kings river. Are they
rare in thkt locality. Also can you tell me
what the animal is called by the natives 'snow

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WM. BEBB. SECRETARY

COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY, U.S.C.

304 E. FIFTH STREET

LOS ANGELES

bear? Described as being the size of a small
rabbit living at high altitudes among the rokks
and pure white in color*

I never saw them myself.

I had a fine three weeks in the moutains

this summer*

Kind wishes to you*

Oct.3, 1912

Wta>M-» iTVt^ i/l.t.t.^

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WM. BEBB. SECRETARY

COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY. U.S.C.

304 E. FIFTH STREET

LOS ANGELES

Dr* C.Hart Merriam

c/o The Biological Survey,

Wasnington, D.u.

Dear doctor Merriam:

I have pleasure in complying with your

request that I seM to you, for exanination the specimen of

flying squirrel and Perognathus which I collected last summer*

I regret the imperfection of the specimens and
their records for should they prove to "be of any value to you
I would be pleased to have you accept them as a gift*

The Perognathus was "badly mutilated in the trap*
One side of the head and the tail being destroyed* For the
remainder of the time I was in campy I kept out a number of
traps where I took this one but with no furthur results*

The flying squirrel vms one which had been killed
and skinned by a Range:fwho expected to make a fur of it and
I did the best I could to preserve it. I found part of the
skeleton, not enough to measure, but was able to recover the

skull*

Referring again to the "snow bear" the man to whom

I am indeblged for the information sait it was not Ochotonai ^

one of which I displayed to him at the time, nor Lepus campestris,

about which I questioned him*

I imagine, from waht you have told me that perhaps
it is a large and qijite white specimen of Ochotona*

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WM. HEBB. SECRETARY'

COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY, U.S.C.

304 E. FIFTH STREET

LOS ANGELES

I have marked the point on the map jvhddh will
show that they Bre in a locality little frequented hy
campers and so far as I know never visited by collectors^

The man is an intelligent cattle man othervdse I
would attach no importance to his information*

With kind wishes to you, to your kind family and
Ifr.Bailey I wish a Happy New Year#

Jany,24,1913*

Yours truly.

WM. BEBB, SECRETARY

COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY, U.S.C.

304 E. FIFTH STREET

LOS ANGELES

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Airil 7th, 1913

Dr. C. Hart Merriam,
1S19 15th St.,

ITashing'ton, D.G*

Dear doctor /.lerriam: —

Your letter of the 31st ult* in rercard to

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the Plying" Squirrel^ and poctet nouse has just come to hand and I

aia pleased to have ycur information ferardin^^ them. I am also

glad to know tl)at they have proved to be additions to your collection.

Ilr. Hopping;* s brotlier ^ends his entire summer in
herdinr; cattle in the hif^i Sierras on Clift Creek and from there
over to the Xern river side of the main divide. He is so i)ositive
that he has seen an^ heard the lar^je v/olves in that section of the

country that I hojye he may be able to verify the truth of his state-
ment* I v;ill at once communicate v/ith him fur I am sure your offer
of $25.00 v/ill be of interest to him as an inducement to endeavor to
collect a specimen. Would small bunches of lieir serve as a means of
identification? He says that twice he has found particles of fleoh
covered with hair where the larre wolf has been in combat with a
cow defendin{^ her calf. He also says tki t he once shot at one with
a revolver. If I aia able to obtain any additional information fom

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COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY U S C
304 E. FIFTH STREET
LOS ANGELES

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him at any time, I will be pleased to comunicate it to you.
'7ith kind regards, I an.

Yours sincirelv

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NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY DENTAL SCHOOL

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY BUILDING
CHICAGO 1L.L1NOIS

OrrioB or thb Oobatob ov

Dr»G#Hart Merriam,

The Northumberland.

WashingtonyD.C •

Dear doctor Merriamj

Feby.2,1916

I have looked over the bear material
and find but one specimen answering the description of
the Grizzly^ which I am sending to you by express today.

It was labelled a grizzly from Alaska purchased from
a taxidermist in Colorado Springs. If this specimen
proves to be of any value to you we would be pleased to
have you accept it as a gift as I am sure any bear materlAl
of value should be in your fine collection^ J.!y only
regret is that I have not more to send to you* There are
three skulls marked' polar bears'' in the collections if you
are interested in that fellow.

I have accepted a position here, which enables me to
give all of my time to museum and library work,which is
much more to my liking than to be obliged to devote so much
time to sldministrative work,which my California position

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demanded. I miss the climate of California but hope ere
long to arrange for a long vacation out there each year.
With kind wishes to you and yours I am^

Yours very sincerely.

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NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY BUIIJ>1NG
CHICAGO LLLINOIS

OrrioB or thb Ookatob ov
TBB MUSBUM

Mart31,1915.

Dear dootor Merriaa:

I am glad that the bears 8kalltWhd*h I sent
to yout proved to be interesting but sorry that the data is
incomplete* It was porehased thirteen years ago from a
taxidermist in ColorWo Springs and the probability of obtaining
the history would be exceedingly doubtful. Howevertif you
think it worth while, I will make the effort, f have a friend
in Colorado Springs wha could doubtless locate the man who
sold it, if he is still in business, but the difficulty then would
be, to be sure that he would remember anything about the transaction

or li^re the s]>ecimen came from*

Tours very truly.

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Ihlte Hirer.

Yeura truly

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Agent to the Mining Recorder.

Agent to the Crown Timber and Land Agent.

Commissioner (or Taking Affidavits.

C* Hart Ilerriam Esq
Washington* D. C

Tom E. Bee, Manager.

POST OFFICE

BRANCHES AT ROSS RIVER
AND BIG SALMON.

Carmacks. in. 24th I9I8

Yukon, Oai^ada.

Dear Sir:*

I am shipping you liy Wells Fargo ISsqpress one package con-
taining I Grizzly Bear Slcull, male and kllleA October on the Upper

Little Salmon Hirer*

On Oc toller 12 th last I shipped you either one ^r i^wre grizzly Bear
skullAi anyway they were In one boxy I have heard absolutely nothing
from you as to whether this box was ever recelyed? This box was
dellTored to the Steamer White Horse of the White Pass and Ttikon Route
with Instructions to ship to you colleet by Wells Fargo Express*
It was thoroughly addressed and In a strong box*

Very truly Yours

Carmacks Trading Po

Agent to the Mining Recorder.

Agent to the Crown Timber and Land Agent.

Commissioner for Taking Affidavits.

Tom E. Bee. Manaokr.

POST OFFICE

BRANCHES
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Carmacks.

March 27th I 91 8

Ytjiton, Canada.

Mr C* Hart Merrlam*

Bureau of Biological Survey.
Washington* D. C.

Dear Sir:-

I am forwarding your department \y Wells Pargo Express
one male Grizzly Bear Skull, killed at the head of the Klsllng Rlrer
on October I9th I9I7. This is a good sized skull and a beauty.

Yours truly

Oarmacks Trading Post

TOM E. Bee, Manager.

OFFICE.

Agent to the Mining Recorder,

Agent to the Oown Timber and Land Agent.

Commissioner for Taking Affidavits.

BRAN^OSSSS AT ROSS RIVER
AND BIG SALiMON.

CARMACKS. August 5th I9I8

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Hr C« Hart Merriam*

Ua S. Depta of Agriculture.
Vaslxingtoiia D. C.

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Dear Sir:-

I am forwarding you by Veils Fargo Express, two "boxes
of Bear Skulls, each slcull labelled« Invoices of same enclosed

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Contents of large case.

Black Bear Lappy River April lOth I9I8
(Jrizzly Bear Lappy River /pril T5th T9T8

Oizzly Bear

Grizzly Bear
Grizzly Bear
Grizzly Bear
Gi'i^-1/ Bear
Gr^zly Bear

Lappy River April USth 19118
Lappy River April II th l^f^
Lappy River Octo'ber 5th 191

McMillan River April 191 6

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Male
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Nasutlin River Octo'ber I9I7
Ilasutlin River Octo'ber I9I7

Mai
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• I Black Bear Rose Mountains October I9I7 ^le

• I Black Bear Rose Mountains October^ I 91 7 Mai
' I Black Bear Rose Mountains June I9l8j Pemjale

• I Orizzly Bear Glenlyon Range September I9|I7

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BEGEIVED CEP^t'* ""'::< 4, 1918, FRO.. '^^ . "i:E.

(All Skulls Labeled 1>KA,/ C<ryy^y^^y^Jiy*^^

OoBtents of Lar^^e Pace

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1 Black Bear,Tad-,.lt niale, perfect'T Lappy River

1 Black Bear ^Ifl is ted as gri^^ly)

y ounfr adul t nal e ,
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1 Black T^ear, /listed as grizzly)

adult male, perfect]

Lapx>y River

Lav)py ; iver

1 riack

r.ear,[( listed as grizzly) Larpjy River
adcilt male, p6r:*ec£j

1 Grizzly rear,|^^erfect, adult, Lappy River

male, short heavy
skull with very high
Lrai." oazej

Ai>ril 10, 1916 Llale "^

April 15, 19ie. llale

Ax^ril 12, 1918, Hale ^

April 11, 191B

Male

October 5, 1917. Llale 1?

rixzly rearJyoimfr but nearly adult

female, labeled male
but I think it is a fe-
male; skull and teeth
perfect >^

ITasutlin "^Uver October 15, 1917. ale

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Grizzly Eeai^^c^d male,slmll perfect McI.Iillan River

but teeth diseased and much v/orn,
and all incisors and sever;U molars
f;one£]

Black Bear,)(listed as rpi'izzly) a pe-
culiar flat tO'ped skull,
adult perfect, i::i-.leT}

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April, 1916. L:ale I?

ITacutlin River October 20,1917. Ivlale 1.

Cor'teiits of :"imall GaL3e.

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Rose ..-uuntains

Black Bearfyounf^ adult, uerfect,

fem.alej

Black Bear/^unr' adult female, perfect? ;^ose .-ount uins

Black Fearlyuun female, ncarl.' adultj ..ose i ountains

Trrizzly Bear, Yyounfr, crest not forrr^d, Glenlyoii l\cx^^^^J

sorewhat broken and batterer! about
base of sku"l and zy;<::o mat l .broken turbana Is cleaned outj^

October, 1917.Fe]:iUe . /

October, 191 7. Fen.ale
June , 1 91 B • Fem.al e

oept ember ,1917. L'ale

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Oarmacks Trading Post

Tom E. Bee. Manager.

POST OFFICE

Agent to the Mining Recorder,

Agent to the Crown Timber and Land Agent.

Commissioner (or Taking Affidavits.

Carmacks.

BRAIS^OHKS AT ROSSNRIVBR
AND BIG SAI^MO]

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Yukon, Canada.

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Agent to the Crown -nmber and Und Agent.

ComnuMioner for Taking Affidavits.

Tom E. Bee. Manager.

OFFICE.

BRAlSrOHES AT HOSS R
AND BIG SALMON.

Carmacks.

Yukon, Canada.

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Agent to the Crown Timber and Und Agent.

Commiisioner for Taking Affidavit!.

Oarmacks Trading Post

Tom E. Bee. Managir.

POST OFFICE.

Carmacks.

BRANCHES AT ROSS RIVER
AND BIG SALMON.

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Yukon, Canada.

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Agent to the Crovm Timber and Land Agent.

Comminioner (or Taking Affidavits.

Tom E. Bee. Managkr.

POST OFFICE.

BRAXOSBS AT ROSS RIVKR
AND BIG SALMON.

Carmacks. _J

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BRAXOHBS AT KOSS RIVBR
AND BIG SALMON.

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Agent to the Mining Recorder.

Agent to the Qown Timber and Land Agent.

Commissioner (or Taking Affidavits.

branoh:es at ross river
and big salmon.

Carmacks. J«>» 2»>* Itit

Yukon, Canada.

Mr C. Hart M^rrlam*

U* 8. D#partTWrtt of Acrl«ultur«

Bureau of Blolofleal Surrey
Wa»hlncton» D. Q.

Dear Sir:-

I am •hlpplnff you by •xpr««« to laorrow a T>ox ty Sxprtas
containing on« l«rf« Grizzly )£al« 3«ar Skull klll«4 last fall
on th» p.iijr RlT«r and In tha na Ighbourhoo* of th« Glanlyon

Ranga of Mountalna.

Your* truly

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June 2ls^ I9I9

Mr. C* Hurt ICerrlaoa.

U# S. J)#partm#nt of Agriculture
Bureau of Biological Surrey.
WaBiilngton* ©• C*

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I am shipping you to day lay expreai a box containing
two Bear Skulla, one a female Grizzly and the emaller one a
male black ekull, theee were both killed thie spring on the
Big Salmon Rlrer.

Yourss tWAly^v -^^

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Carmacks Trading Post

Tom E. Bee. Manager

OFFICE

Fun Bought and Sold

Agent to the Mining Recorder

Agent to the Crown Timber and Land Agent

Commissioner for Taking Affidavits

BRANCHES AT ROSS RIVER
AND BIG SALMON

Carmacks

Yukon, Canada

Sta. aotH. Itl9

Dr. G. Hart Itorriaa*

U. 8. BttpartOfunt of Acrlaiilturt
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Commissioner for Taking Affidavits

Tom E. Bee. Manager

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BRAXOHKS AT ROSS RIVER
AND BIG SALMON

Carmacks ^P^f :^....23r<i 1920

Yukon, Oanada

Dr. C, Hart Merrlam.

U. S. D«pt. of Agriculture.
Vaahlngton. D, C.

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I am forwarding you to day by American Railway Express Co.
a tox containing a grizzly bear skull fiom the Yukon Rlrer.

Yours truly

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1331 CONNECTICUT AVENUE,

WASHINGTON. D.C.

January 25th. 1898.

Dr. C.Hart Merrlaa.

Agricultural Departnent.
City.

Dear Dr.Merriaffi : —

I presume that Mr.Hjide has called a meeting of the
Editorial Committee for tomorrow (Wednesday) evening at ay house, here,
at eight o'clock.

Allow oe most cordially to second his invitation,
tad to express ti'e hope that you may be able to attend.

Very sincerely yours.

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1331 CONNECTICUT AVENUE,

WASHINGTON, D.C.

March 8th. 1898

Dr.Hilpt Merria

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Agricultural Department

City

Dear Dr.Merria

ffl : —

T^e name of Mr. Willis Moore does not

appear a.ong the members of the Washington Academy of Sciences. It

strange that so well qualified

seems

the members of the Joint Co

mm

a man should ha7e been so little known by

number of votes. I venture to bring this matter t

ission that he failed to secure the necessary

I believe^you are on the committee to ext
omission of his name would be a reflection upon h

0 your attention because
end the list of the Academy. The

as head of a scientific bu

reau of the Government

IS scientific abilities

yours sincerely

KujX^

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY.
WASHINGTON. DC.

March 15th. 1898.

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Dear Dr.Mepriaoi : —

I would be very

much obliged if you could be present at tne
Reception tomorrow evening not later than
7.45 to make final arrangements for receiving
our guests.

Yours sincerely,

President.

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1331 CONNECTICUT AVENUE,

WASHINGTON, O.C.

January 5, 1900.

Ify dear Dr. Hferriam: —

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Don*t forget tomorrow, Saturday evening, at eigjit P.M. I have
invited a few gentleman to meet President Dabney for"'an informal inter-
dbange of views relatiijg to the utilization of the departirents of the
gorernnent for the purposes of research, through the agency of the
Smithsonian Institution • • I have not invited Mrs. Sweat, or any
ies, as I thou^t we would be more free if we could smoke our

igars and chat informally.

Yours sincerely.

I33i CONNECTICUT AVENUE,

WASHINGTON, O. C.

March 23, 1903.

Dear Sir:-

Dr. Alexander Graham Bell -^-ould be very glad to have
you come to his house, 1331 Connecticut Avenue, tomorrow after-
noon, March 24th, at 4: 30 o'clock, to meet Mr. Bailey Willis in
an informal conference on a matter of interest to the National

Geographic Society.

Mr. C. Haitt Merriam,

1919 - 16th Street,
City.

Yours sincerely,

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1331 CONNECTICUT AVENUE,
WASHINGTON,D.C.

April 6, 1904

Dr# C* Hart Merriam,

1919 l(Sth Street,

Washington, D# C«

Dear Dr. Merriam:

I am glad to know from your note
of April 5 that you have not forgotten the
promised slide talk* As you have left the
date for me to settle, I would suggest the
13th unless the 20th will be more convenient
for you. Kindly let me know if I may expect

you on the 13th •

Ypurs sincerely.

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1331 CONNECTICUT AVENUE,
WASH|NGTON,D.C.

Dr« C« Hart Mtrriaa,

1919 16tk Street,

WaslalngtOR, D« C»

March 7, 1906;

Dear Dr# ICerriaa:*

You May rai«K'b«r tkat I spok« to you som* time ago about
a cast of consci«»e« regarding a ailrer fox, I purckaaid tki«
fox from Mr, Rory A. McDonald, Boiaardarie, Cape Breton, for
♦lOO.OO on the chance that it might really be a silrer fox and
worth the money. Mr, McDonald asked tSOO.OO but gare it to ae
for llOO.OO on the Tinder standing that I woia^make Inquiries in
Washington regarding its ralue and if I found it worth more than
I gare, I was to pay him the difference, and if it was worth less
than I gare, he wanted to work for me to make up the difference.

Now please help me out, I enelose a note from this Mr,
McDonald and also the fox skin.

Is it a silrer fox and should I pay him anything more
than I hare already paid him namely llOCOof The decision is im

your hands* Kindly reply.

Yours sincerely,

f6^L0L.

1331 CONNECTICUT AVENUE,

WASHINGTON, O. C.

January 16, 1907 •

])r« C* Hart ICerrlam,

1919 16th Street, V. ¥•,
Vaehlngton, !)• C«

Dear Br llerriam:-

I told you the other evening, that your name, among
others, has "been suggested for consideration "by the Bo£a*d of
Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for the vacant Secretary-
ship*

The Board will meet on the 23rd instant, and it would he
well to have some memher authorized to state your attitude towards
the Secretaryship when the matter comes up for consideration*

I should be much obliged, if you v/ould kindly let
me know whether in the event of the Secretaryship being offered tc
you, you would accept it# After our recent experience with Prof*
Osborn, it is not likely that the Board will again elect a Sec-
retary without having definite assurances beforehand that he will

accept*

An early answer will much oblige, and your reply will

be considered as confidential and only for the informatfion of

members of the Board*

Yours sincerely,

Regent of the Smithsonian Institutiont

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