p. 35: Rae happily spent the winter [1845] at York Factory. He built a ‘laboratory’ and occupied himself with meteorological observations and he taught some of his men to assist him. The company [HBC] maintained a small library at York and Rae used it to continue his study of natural history, botany, geology and other subjects.
Dr John Rae.
Richards, Robert L. Whitby, Yorkshire: Caedmon of Whitby Publishers, 1985.
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