ami lie was first discussed publicly in
1814 by (lev. Do Witt Clinton in New
York city. Huthrie's geography says
that he wn? named Ursus horribllis by
Naturalist George Ord in 181”>. Fossil
records indicate that tin* grizzly is of
Asiatic origin. He appears to have
come Into America about a million
years ago over one of the pre historic
land bridges that united Alaska and
Asia. Hears and dogs are descendants
from the same parent stock. The
grizzly hear never eats human Posh,
is not ferocious .and fights only .11
self-defense. He lends an adventurous
life, is a horn explorer and ever lias
good wilderness manners — neves
makes attacks. The numerous cases ir
which th»* grizzly has been made ■ pet
and companion of man, where he was
thoughtfully, intelligently raised, show
him .to he a superior animal, dignified
intelligent, loyal and uniformly good
tempered. Not a grizzly exls>s in any
of the tour national parks of Califor
nia, and that animal, once so cele
brated In tl.a state, is extinct there. lie
is also extinct over the greater portion
of the vast territory which lie formerly
occupied, and is verging on ext*-r
intnntfon.
8/.«w Homes in the Arctic.
