Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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teach them something of the animals belong to the lands they inhabit. To his scientific training he owes another source of pleasure even greater than the other for every live of the beautiful animal before him has a meaning which adds to his store of first- hand knowledge of that vast nature's crown has refreshed herself in her living wild creatures. He sees it then in a different light, however how many specimens he has ex- amined in the museum, for now it is in its own environment in the surroundings of its own climate. Perhaps characters which have puzzled him or his fellow colleagues are now make clear as he can read the story of its life history with clearness and this certain knowledge of truths. And above all is the delight when he feels certain that he has before him a new discovery - an animal species new to science. Be it large or little small, whether the animal has fallen to his rifle or his trap, then as the joy of pursuing that he has at last solved some small problem to the larger solving learned so many of nature's secrets, has traced one