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Eastwood, the well-known botanist of California, who used to teach in 

 Denver, spending her summers studying the Colorado flora. 



In New Mexico, biology is not very much studied. I will only 

 refer at this time to Professor E. 0. Wooton and his assistant, Mr. 

 Metcalfe, at the Agricultural College. These botanists have made 

 large collections of the New Mexico flora, and Professor Wooton's 

 writings on the subject are well known. 



In Wyoming, one thinks first and last of Professor Aven Nelson, 

 the indefatigable botanist of the University of Wyoming. The her- 

 barium he has accumulated there is by far the best within our region, 

 and his critical studies of the Eocky Mountain flora in the field have 

 given him a knowledge possessed by no other man. He has, of course, 

 described very many new species, and I have heard it stated that he 

 will cooperate with Professor Coulter in the production of a new edition 

 of the latter's ' Eocky Mountain Botany/ now so greatly behind the 

 times. Between Professor Nelson and Dr. Eydberg we seem likely to 

 possess in the near future works which will give a new impetus to the 

 study of Eocky Mountain plants, making easy that which has been 

 getting increasingly difficult. Professor Nelson has already issued a 

 small school flora, including only the commoner and more conspicuous 

 plants. 



In Montana, we have Professor Cooley, the entomologist of the 

 experiment station, and Professor Morton J. Elrod, of the University 

 of Montana. The work of Professor Elrod in founding a biological 

 station and studying the mollusca, dragon-flies, etc., is extremely valu- 

 able, and one may hope that it will continue to find hearty support. 

 The publications of the University of Montana show that Professor 

 Elrod has been able to interest a number of persons in the ' biological 

 survey ' idea, and the work seems to be growing in volume and value 

 every year. 



I have not attempted to refer to every Eocky Mountain worker, nor 

 have I said anything about visiting naturalists ; but it would be a serious 

 omission not to allude to Dr. Clements, of the University of Nebraska, 

 who for a number of years has been a ' summer resident/ as they say 

 of certain birds. Dr. Clements migrates to the mountains when his 

 teaching work closes in Nebraska, and, with others, occupies a cottage 

 at Minnehaha, which is on Pike's Peak, at an altitude of 8,400 feet. 

 From this point he explores the slopes of the peak and the surround- 

 ing country, and makes ecological observations. 



The above brief account of Eocky Mountain biology will make it 

 apparent, I hope, that there are at least six places where fairly good 

 facilities, of one sort or another, are offered for biological research. 

 These are the University of Montana, the University of Wyoming, the 

 University of Colorado, Colorado College, the Agricultural College of 

 Colorado and the Agricultural College of New Mexico. In some in- 



