Actually, this was to have been sort of a reconnaissance trip for the three men from the Los Angeles County Museum. Back in Los Angeles, Jean Delacour, director of the museum, and Keith Spaulding, of Pasadena, sponsor of the expedition, had obtained the co-operation of the U.S. He’s an expert rifleman, too, although he’d never shot one of the big bears. The museum men, despite their scare by the big brownie, soon lost all fear of bears, which seemed determined to stay out of their way. In March of this year, Fitz notified Curator Lincoln that the Alaska brown bear was the biggest ever taken.