Merriam, C. Hart, Page 2

• Main Author: Merriam, C. Hart
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 2017
• Subjects: John Muir; biography; reminiscence; colleagues; contemporaries; archives; special collections; University of the Pacific; California; Holt-Atherton Special Collections; history; naturalist; Atherton; Pacific; glacier; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmr-all/22; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmr-all/article/1023/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg

2 One often hears Muir spoken of as an authority on the animal life of the mountains. This is an error. For while he liked to see birds and mammals in the wilderness and about his camps, he never troubled himself to learn much about them, low and then a particular species impressed itself sufficient...