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WILLIAM H. DALL,

DIRECTOR OF THE SCIENTIFIC CORPS OF THE LATE WESTERN UNION
TELEGRAPH EXPEDITION.

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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.

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