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Although founded to include flora & fauna of the whole U. S., the Boston Museum today is known as a specialist in New England animals, minerals, flowers. It contains a complete exhibit of old New Bedford and Nantucket whaling days, including whaling implements, ambergris, immense whale skeletons. Many famed people have been interested in adding to its collection. Naturalist-Author Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), who learned to love animals while driving his mother's cow to pasture, gave a warbler and some hawk eggs. Daniel Webster (1782-1852) was interested in the society because he liked hunting and fishing...
...York, more different species of birds are found than exist in all of North America east of the Rocky Mountains. In this little country, during the course of a journey from east to west, the visitor passes through six different climatic zones, with as many variations in flora and fauna...
...train then begins a steady rise, and in the space of 30 miles has attained an altitude of thousands of feet, in a country creased by gorges and ravines, where the capital, Guatemala City, is located. A distinctly different fauna inhabits this part of the country...
Changes of Fauna Hinder...
...study of species is complicated in this and the succeeding zone, where the highest mountains of Guatemala are located, by reason of the changes in fauna which occur, not only as one ascends or descends a mountain peak through various levels in its 13,000 or 14,000 feet. In this arid subtropical plateau there are peaks which have birds of the tropical desert at their base, of the arid subtropical plateau upon their slopes, and of the temperate regions on their summits. All this complicates the task of a cataloguer. It is necessary to state at what altitude...