THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION. 



267 



The Bending of Trees by Ice and Snow. 



JOHN E. MELLISH, CORRESPONDING MEM- 

 BER NO. 2012 OF THE A A, COTTAGE 

 GROVE, WISCONSIN. 



I am sending- you some remarkable 

 pictures of the effects of the great 

 storm of January 29, 1909. The pho- 

 tographs were all taken three days 

 after the storm. The first two days 

 were partly cloudy and there was a 

 wind blowing at the rate of twenty- 

 four miles an hour most of the time. 

 The air w?s also full of snow. The 



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snow, rain and sleet started about dark 

 on the twenty-eighth and by nine 

 o'clock all that could be seen of the 

 trees was solid ice. The next morning 

 all the wires were down and were 

 coated with two inches of wet snow. 



JOHN E. MELLISH. 



It rained some then and turned colder 

 the thirty-first of January. The sun 

 shone brightly most of the time so 

 the snow thawed and packed and then 

 froze into solid ice. The trees in the 

 photographs stayed covered with ice 

 for a week. The bent trees are white 







THE BENDING OF TREES BY ICE AND SNOW. 



