listed Stephen’s codperation.’’ Fewkes, in ‘‘A Contribu- 
tion to Ethnobotany’’ (1), makes the statement that parts 
of his material ‘‘were collected while at work for the 
Hemenway expedition and portions as special ethnolo- 
gist of the Smithsonian Institution.’ Furthermore, he 
states that his specimens were identified “‘by the late Dr. 
Sereno Watson, of Harvard University, and have been 
deposited in the herbarium of that institution.*” He also 
refers to an accumulation of material on the foods and 
food reserves of the Hopi Indians, begun in 1891 by a 
student, ‘‘the late J. G. Owens,’’ upon which he has a 
memoir in preparation. This article he states as being 
‘‘more or less preliminary in nature.” 
Later, in the summers of 1896 and 1897, Walter 
Hough spent some time in the Hopi region in company 
with Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, making a study of the eth- 
nobotany of the Hopi Indians. The specimens of plants 
collected, according to the reports of Hough (2), (8), are 
to be found in the United States National Museum. 
There are a few bits of newspapers that were found 
in the collection of plants under consideration. ‘These 
newspapers were apparently used as driers because they 
have written on them a field number and the Indian 
name of the plant. They bear the name and the date of 
the ‘‘Boston Weekly Post,’’ Friday, May 22, 1891, and 
the ‘*Philadelphia Press,*” Saturday, May 28, 1891. 
There is also a strip from some New York paper with 
the date May 23, 1891. It seems reasonable to infer, 
therefore, that the collection was made during the sum- 
mer of 1891 or later. During the summer of 1891, 
Fewkes, Owens and Stephen, according to the written 
reports, were working in the Hopi area. 
In checking this collection of plants with specimens 
in the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University, a num- 
ber of specimens collected by J.G.OQwens in 1891 were 
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