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Mountain Home, Idaho, and Salt Lake City. At all these points I busied myself with the business of my trip, viz; in making the acquaintance of hunters, taxidermists and collectors, gaining from them as much detailed information as possible in regard to the abundance or scarcity of the more prominent or well-known species of western mammals, and when found desirable, arrangements were made, [[underlined]] tentatively [[/underlined]], for the supply of such specimens, both living and dead, of such species as we most urgently require.

An effort was made to secure on the spot a certain number of desirable living animals, for purposes of study, and to form the nucleus of a scientific menagerie, and no opportunity, or seeming opportunity, was neglected to purchase desirable animals at reasonable prices. A few skins and other objects were also purchased, for