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THE GUIDE TO NATURE. 



bones, jaws, and part of a skull of a 

 new species of three-toed horse. We 

 then went to the Boulder Valley near 

 Cold Spring, then to a place near White- 

 hall, and then returned to the Madison 

 Valley, where our expedition ended.. 



It would take too long to tell all the 

 results of this summer's work, but we 

 sent east between twenty and thirty 

 boxes filled with precious fossils. We 

 had supposed that we were getting extra 

 fine skulls and parts of skeletons of ani- 

 mals that had been found before ; but as 

 the boxes were opened and the bones 

 were cleaned from the matrix and com- 

 pared with those already known, it was 

 found that nearly all were new to sci- 

 ence, and almost every specimen added 

 something to our knowledge of the life 

 of the past. 



A number of the new species have 

 been figured and described, and it may 

 be interesting to know that the skull 

 which was first found partly weathered 

 out of the bank on Fossil Hill was made 

 the type of a new species — that is the 

 first specimen of a species to be de- 

 scribed — and this specimen with several 

 other new species collected during the 

 summer are now mounted and on exhi- 

 bition in the Carnegie Museum.. 



Perhaps sometime the reader will have 

 an opportunity to know more about these 

 animals themselves. 



OUR EASTERN CALLA LILY. 



Take a walk in the suburbs of any 

 eastern city or village, and descend into 

 the lowlands, during the months of 

 March and April, and you will find in 

 full bloom a profuse growth of our east- 

 ern "calla lily." Now, I confess that the 

 term "calla lily" for this particular plant 

 is original. I am aware also that we 

 have a real, local, swamp calla, the water 

 arum Calla palustris. I have never 



heard anyone else apply the term calla to 

 the plant to which I now invite your at- 

 tention, and I neither desire nor expect 

 that it will be adopted in the next re- 

 vision of our standard botanies. Yet, 

 pardon the soliloquizing in print, there 

 would really be as much reason for 

 adopting it because of its use in this ar- 

 ticle, though in quotation marks, as there 

 is for seriously adopting the revised no- 

 menclature of some of the Latinized 

 botanical names. Possibly some learned 

 botanist, a hundred years from now, 

 probing among the files of this period- 

 ical, will discover that this is the first 

 use of the name, and therefore, on the 

 doctrine of priority in nomenclature, will 

 henceforth adopt it as the only true, 

 authentic and original title. (Strange 

 what a ma«, confusing to the beginner, 

 there is of first names, and original 

 names and priority of names. But that 

 is another matter, and to prevent any 



"THE EASTERN CALLA LILY"— THE STURDY SKUNK CABBAGE. 

 During the months of March and April, you will find in full bloom a profuse growth of our eastern 

 "cally lily." 



