said should go immediately to the Islands for his health, and to whom he offered free passage by the Ganymede. To leave the elder Lee with only the half-invalid Shepard was to leave him virtually alone, which Edwards was too generous to do. Overcome by Lee's persuasions, he went back to the Mission dis- appointed, and Daniel Lee proceeded to the Islands. On this ship was Nuttall, the botanist^ who had spent a year in studying the flora of the Pacific coast. The previous winter both Nuttall and Townsend had visited the Hawaiian group in Wyeth's ship, the May Dacre. The naturalists were now separating^ Towns- end to remain another year in Oregon, and his friend to go to California by way of the Islands. All these people travelled freely on the fur company's vessels without charge. 11

11 Townsend left Oregon in November 1835 in the company's bark Colum- bia, Captain Royal, bound to England by way of the Islaiuk He expresses re-ret at leaving Vancouver. 'I took leave,' he says, 'of Dr McLoughhn with feelings akin to those with which I should bid adieu to an affectionate parent; and to his fervent "God bless you, sir, and may you have a happy meeting with your friends," I could only reply by a look of the sincerest grati- tude. Words are inadequate to express my deep sense of the obligation* 1 feel under to this truly generous and excellent man.' Nar., 253. lownsend was a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1 he idea of joining Wyeth's expedition across the continent being suggested to him by Nuttall, who had determined to do so, was eagerly seized upon, the thought of visiting unexplored regions being irresistible. Townsend seems to have been very industrious, and was assisted frequently by the scholarly gentle- men of the Hudson's Bay Company. He gives a list of the quadrupeds and birds of the Oregon territory, many of which were new to science. Among the former are the dusky wolf, Canus mbilus; two species of hare , L<V"*> Towmendii and Lepus artemesia; a third new species is called Nuttall s little hare, Lepus Nuttallu. Two new species of marmot, Spermophilus lown- sendii and a small pouched marmot not named; also two of the meadow- mouse species, A rvxola Towmendii and A rvicola Oregonii. Several new species of squirrel are named; downy squirrel, Sciurus lanuginosus and Saurus Rich- ardsonii; little ground-squirrel, Tamias minimus and Tamias Towmendii; and Oregon flying-squirrel, Pteromys Oregonemis. Of moles there is Scatop* Towmendii, given as new; and a new shrew-mouse undesenbed; besides two species of bats, Plecotus Towmendii, or great-eared bat, and a small bat un- described. Townsend's list of birds found in Oregon is long, and many of the species were new to naturalists. They were the chestnut-backed titmouse, Parus rufescens; brown-headed titmouse, Parus Minimus; mountain mock- ing-bird, Orpheus rnontanus; white-tailed thrush, not described; Townsend s thrush, Ptiliogonys Towmendii; Morton's water-ouzel, Ciuclns Mortom; Co- lumbian water-ouzel, Cinrtus Towmendii; Tolmie s warbler, Sylvia Tolmei, named in compliment to Dr Tolmie of the Hudson's Bay Company; hermit warbler, Sylvia occidentals; black-throated gray warbler, Sylvia mgrescem; Audubon's warbler, Sylvia A uduboni; Townsend's warbler, Sylvia Towmendu; ash-headed warbler, not described; western bluebird, Siaha occidentals;