LLS 39238.70 VA BATHED COLLEGE LIBRARY 1871, Dear. 2. Minot Fund. $5.63 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by WILLIAM H. DALL, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & Co., CAMBRIDGE. 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. |