. 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. 4 J .' 4 4 4 i. r 1 *> 1^ : 1 i f ^ 1 j 1' J ^ V I %
. 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. 4 J .' 4 4 4 i. r 1 *> 1^ : 1 i f ^ 1 j 1' J ^ V I % i L J (^ 490 1919 Sixteenth Street, Washirigton, D. C, Dec. 2, 1906. iiv dear Batchelder: Tliai kB for :roT;r letter of IJoveinber 21. Since I have .^jst repliod to one of the Bome date and on the same culDject from Brewster, I v/ill ^uote what I have vnritten aim as eiiuallv an ans- war to yours. â¢Durififi the past twenty years there has never been a time when I have not been an active merrber of at least half a dozenâns^jally ©oreâcociritteoB aiid governing boards, and the work that hat: fallen to me has been exceed uv;ly In all matters of detail and business it has been my uniform practise to act in caccoi^ with the will of the malority; but in mtters of principle, under which I inclvde politics, religion, morale and other cattors of belief, I have always held it the duty of every man to stxnd for what he believed to be right. And I have held, in the case of others as â¼.11 as nc'self, that when a pan finds hiipself radically oppoeod, in a matter- of px-incipl©, to the maiority, it is his dov.' to withdraw. Otherwise he can hardly fail to nnnoy if not errharrass hiB fellowe, and r"- hicicelf in a falso light m the oves of taose outride. In zoological ncxoenclsture the prineiplee I have always rep:ar- ded as ffiost vitalâ1 might alcoet say sacrciâ ai-e priority and recof?£>t of 0^^^ K">» '^'^'^ ^''i®^«» r&
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