. 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. an May 20. 1924 Professor Edmond i>. Meany University
. 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. an May 20. 1924 Professor Edmond i>. Meany University of Washington ' ;. Seattle, Washington ^ 0 Dear Professor Meaoy: Very many thanks for your letter of the 14th instant and for the book you were good enough to send ne, entitled *9^igin of Washington Geographic Names'. This is the kind of a book I like to see hut unfortuTiately there are mighty few to be compared with it. I wish we had something of the sort for California, and we ou^t to hare one for erery state in the Union. For more than twenty years I hare been piling up a card catalogue of place naaes in California but shail never find time to finish it. The obrious superiority of your book on Washington place names is-that you have treated the names historically, thus placing a fund of information at the disposal of historians as well as geographers, naturalists and others interested in matters of this sort. I congratulate you on being the parent of so valufcble a work, and at the same time wish tc thank you for your courtesy in sending me a copy. Mount Hainier being somewhat in the atmosphere at present, I naturally turned to your statement on the subject. lou say among other tilings :'^he ".?. Geographic Board has rendered t'fo decisions in the case, both 'in favor of Mount Rainier". You" 1 i*^. '< ;.« % If Wf' ^ ^. \ 479 -2- Pr. Bdmond 3. Meanv May 20. 1924 ^ should have said three,instead of two. The first decision as you state was in 1890. the secon
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