present Secretaries of State for Colonial Affairs, for their kindness in
forwarding my applications through their department. I have next tQ
express my best thanks to the Governor and Committee of the Hudson’s
Bay Company, for granting me free access to their museum, and
to the manuscript accounts of the Fur Countries, in their possession,
and for the strong recommendations they transmitted to the resident
Chief Factors and Chief Traders, to forward the views of the Expedition,
with respect to Natural History. To Mr. Garry, the Deputy
Governor of that Company, I have to offer my thanks in an especial
manner, not only for his general kindness and good offices, but for the
free use of his valuable library, particularly rich in the works of the
early travellers in America. I have also to mention my deep sense of
the kindness of the Council of the Horticultural Society, and of Joseph
Sabine, Esq., Secretary to that Institution, for the opportunity of
examining and describing Mr. Douglas’s specimens. To Charles
Koenig, Esq., of the British Museum, I am under much obligation, for
the facility he afforded me of examining the specimens in that collection
; and I am equally indebted to N. A. Vigors, Esq., of the Zoological
Society, for his aid in the consultation of the museum under his charge.
I have, lastly, to express my gratitude to Sir John Franklin, and to the
Officers associated with me under his command. To the former, for the
kindness with which he embraced every opportunity during the progress
of the Expedition, of forwarding my views with respect to that
branch of its objects, which was more particularly intrusted to me;
and to Captain Back, Lieutenant Kendall, and Mr. Dease, for their-
active-assistance in the collection of specimens. Indeed, I may, with
propriety, embrace this opportunity of saying, that I had the happiness
of being placed under an Officer, who was endowed with the rare
union of devoted attention to the duties of his profession, and of the
most sincere attachment to the interests of general science,—and that,
in him, and in the Officers under his command, I met with kind friends,
whose agreeable society beguiled the tedium of a lengthened residence-
in the Arctic wilds.
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B risson . . . . . . .
B uffon . . . . . .
Cartwright . . . .
Carver ...........................
Ca t e s b y ...........................
C.. H amilton Smith . .
Champlain . . . . .
Charlevoix . . . .
Clerk of the California
Clinton . . . . . .
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OF THE
T E R E N C E S TO A U T H O R S .
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work is quoted after M. Sa^.)
Bewick’s History of Quadrupeds, 1st and 2nd editions, .with wood cuts.
Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia, by Commodore Joseph Billings, 1785
to 1794 ; narrated by Martin Sauer. London, 1802. . •
Bulletin des Sciences par la Société Philomatique, 1791 et seq. Paris.
Le Règne Animal Divisé en ix. Classes. 1 vol. in 4to. Paris, 1756.
Histoire Naturelle, Generale et Particulière, avec la Description du Cabinet du
Roi. Paris, 1749. 36 vols, in 4to.
Journal of Sixteen Years’ Residence in Labrador, by G. Cartwright. 1 vol. 8vo.
London.
Travels in North America, by J. Carver, Esq., in the Years 1766, 1767 and 1768.
London, 1778.
The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, by Mark
Catesby. 2 vols. fol. with App. London, 1731 and 1743.
Vide Smith.
Voyages du Sieur de Champlain Xaintongeois. 1613.
Histoire de la Nouvelle France, avec le Journal d’un Voyage dans l’Amerique,
" Septentrionale, par lé" P. Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix; a Paris an
. 1777. 12mo. tom. 5.
Vide Smith and Drage.
Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York, instituted
m the Year 1814. Introductory Discourse by the Hoir. De Witt Clinton, LL.D,,
&c. 4to. New York, 1815.
Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, in 1776—1780, performed under the Direction of
, Captain Cook.. London, 1784. 4to. 3 vols..
Account of Russian Discoveries between Asia and America, by William Coxe,
A.M., F,R-S. Londons 1787« . .
Coxe