AND

ITS RESOURCES.

BY

WILLIAM H. DALL,

DIRECTOR OF THE SCIENTIFIC CORPS OF THE LATE WESTERN UNION

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To the Memory

OF

ROBERT KENNICOTT,

FIRST DIRECTOR OF THE SCIENTIFIC CORPS,

This Work is reverently Dedicated.

HE JOINED TO A NOBLE AND GENEROUS HEART AN ENTHUSIASTIC

LOVE OF NATURE; DEFYING IN THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE

THE MIASMA OF THE TROPICS AND THE RIGORS OF THE

ARCTIC WINTER; MANFULLY ENDURING ISOLA-
TION, SICKNESS, AND PRIVATION, AND
DYING IN THE FIELD, A MARTYR

TO THE CONSCIENTIOUS DIS

CHARGE OF HIS

DUTY.