50 IVjoining' Experiment Station. 



botany. Preparations for setting out were perfected as 

 rapidly as possible, but it was not until July 7 that the 

 start was made. 



Beside the writer 



THE PARTY 



consisted of W. C. Knight, Professor of Geology in the 

 University and Geologist of the Station; Mr. W. H. 

 Reed, who furnished a large part of the outfit for the ex- 

 pedition; Mr. Geo. M. Cordiner, a student at the Univer- 

 sity, who accompanied the party as the writer's assistant.* 



The expenses of the expedition were reduced to a 

 minimum as they consisted of only the actual living ex- 

 penses of the party in the field, plus the expense incident 

 to securing the services of Mr. Reed, with his two teams 

 and wagons and one saddle horse. The camp equipage 

 consisted of all the necessary utensils, ample bedding, a 

 tent, (which, owing to the perfect weather, was rarely 

 used), a stock of groceries, besides the necessary ap- 

 paratus for collecting in both botany and geology. 



The botanist's outfit may be of interest and was as 

 follows: Two ordinary-sized tin collecting cans, one of 

 which had a number of small compartments at the end for 

 diminutive and delicate objects, and one large tin vascu- 

 lum — so large that it was always referred to as the "tin 

 trunk." This was indispensable during the long moun- 

 tain trips, when it was a desideratum to be able to bring 

 back once for all a large amount of material. The most 

 efficient instrument for uprooting plants, both on the 

 plains and among the rocks in the mountains, was found 



*It is with deep sorrow that I record the death of this noble young man. On March 

 14, I895 he received fatal injuries during a fire in Lajamic by being caught under the fall- 

 ing walls of a building from which he was helping to remove goods. While in the field he 

 greatly endeared himself to the writer by his constant cheerfulness, his remarkable faith- 

 fulness to duty, his high efficiency and his moral worth. 



