. 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. 6617 LtlWid Wa^Vv Hollywood, Cal,' Ftb. 21, D«ar
. 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. 6617 LtlWid Wa^Vv Hollywood, Cal,' Ftb. 21, D«ar Dr. Marrlam, My l§»t letter wae written to you before yours arrived. It got here this afternoon. According to your letter, collecting is the most important thing for a beginner in Zoology, Unfortunately, this particuliJ: section of California is growing with a remarkable and (unless you are a real-*ee^ate man) unpleasant rapidity. All over the hills around here you can see cities with streets, sewers^ and telephone-poles, in fact, everything a city should have except houses. The result is you have to journey a considerable dftance to see even a gopher. The fauna of Leland Way consists almost entirely of Felis domesti- cus, Canis familiuris, and Gallus ferr\Agineus, The only animal I have had a chance to try my aged ,22 on was a rat I cornered in the pantry, and as when dead his hide (and inoidertaly the pantry floor) Was full of bullet-»holes and his tail was blown in half, he was hardly in condition for preservation. Besides, I doubt wheth- er my mother would have encouraged, this piece of amateur taxidermy anyhow. As for other collections, I have back Sast a fair collection from Florida of she lis ,|y albeit somewhat csin^ged in transportation; also several pieces of rock with fossils from Whitestone Gulch, IJ. Y,; and out here several fragments of bone from Rancho la Brea and a number of fossil plants. At present my collecting is along a cheap, simple, and enjoyable line
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