American big game in its haunts; the book of the Boone and Crockett club . hey should hold in classifi-cation, we do not yet know. It is not improbable that the reader may leavethis brief survey with the feeling that its admis-sions of ignorance exceed its affirmations of cer-tainty, and such is indeed the case, for the law ofscientific validity forbids the statement as fact, ofthat concerning which the least element of doubtremains. But the real advance of zoologicalknowledge must not thereby be discredited, for it isdue to those who have contributed to it to remem-ber that little more than a
American big game in its haunts; the book of the Boone and Crockett club . hey should hold in classifi-cation, we do not yet know. It is not improbable that the reader may leavethis brief survey with the feeling that its admis-sions of ignorance exceed its affirmations of cer-tainty, and such is indeed the case, for the law ofscientific validity forbids the statement as fact, ofthat concerning which the least element of doubtremains. But the real advance of zoologicalknowledge must not thereby be discredited, for it isdue to those who have contributed to it to remem-ber that little more than a generation ago theseproblems of life seemed wrapped in hopelessobscurity, and the methods of investigation whichhave led to practically all our present gains, werethen but new born, and with every passing year 97 American Big Game in its Haunts doubts are dispelled, and theories turned intotruths. There was no break in physical evolutionwhen mental processes began, nor will there be inthe evolution of knowledge as long as they con-tinue to exist. Arthur Erwin Brown. 9S. TROPHIES FROM ALASKA. Big-Game Shooting in Alaska Hunting on Kadiak Island Early in April, 1900, I made my first journey toAlaska for the purpose of searching out for myselfthe best big-game shooting grounds which were tobe found in that territory. Few people who havenot traveled in that country have any idea of itsvastness. Away from the beaten paths, much ofits 700,000 square miles is practically unknown,except to the wandering prospector and the Indianhunter. Therefore, since I could obtain but littledefinite information as to just where to go for thebest shooting, I determined to make the primaryobject of my journey to locate the big-game dis-tricts of southern and western Alaska. My first two months were spent in the countryadjacent to Fort Wrangell. Here one may expectto find black bear, brown bear, goats, and onalmost all of the islands along the coast great num-bers of the small Sitka deer, while
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