. C. Hart Merriam papers : including correspondence, papers relating to career with the United States Biological Survey, 1798-1972 (bulk 1871-1942). United States. Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy; United States. Division of Biological Survey; United States. Biological Survey; United States. Bureau of Biological Survey; Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U. S. ); Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899); Bering Sea controversy; Bears; Biogeography; Natural history; Ornithology; Botany; Life zones; Wildlife conservation. £68 894 A] Smith 10 ^EJth. II hunters" (p. 140). On
. C. Hart Merriam papers : including correspondence, papers relating to career with the United States Biological Survey, 1798-1972 (bulk 1871-1942). United States. Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy; United States. Division of Biological Survey; United States. Biological Survey; United States. Bureau of Biological Survey; Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U. S. ); Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899); Bering Sea controversy; Bears; Biogeography; Natural history; Ornithology; Botany; Life zones; Wildlife conservation. £68 894 A] Smith 10 ^EJth. II hunters" (p. 140). On the next page he statee that the diecoTeriea Bouft and west of Great Salt Lake [which he ctdlB 'Lake TimrjenogpO belong princiiially to J. S. Smith. Continuing, he writes: "J. S. Smith descended the Eio Colorado of California, in the yefa-1626, as far south a« the thirty-fifth decree of north latitude. Proceeding thence weitwardly, he reached the MiBBicns of Spx Pedro and San Diego near the Pacif io« Ihe ensuing year, he yieited Vonterey and St. rrancisco; ascended the riyer Buenaventura some distance, end recrossed the Califomian chain of mountains. called there Mount Joseph, in about the tiiirty-ninth degree of latitude. He thence proceeded north of west Cobvious error for eaatj, and reached the southwestern extremity of Lake Tinipanogo. Die eastem foot of the Californian chain, where he recrossed it. is about one hundred ani eighty 'tl miles fru'M' the Pacific. ais infon^-^tion. fron: the authority, sad based on Smith's ow^r. record a« trar^itted ty his partner. General Aehlsy. should of itself suffice to settle the geneiBl location C^f the rowte. But it seena to here been overlooked by of the authors who h&re written on Smith .' t>ale read it. hit wa« curiously confused, faillr^ to see that aallatin' « uee of the exj;res8ion "nor'th of west- woe a slip of the pen for'nor ft of accusing him of inaccuracy both in hi east', ana*
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