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The state of Montana has 146,000 square miles of territory. There is a 

 population in round numbers of ■250,000 people. Of this number there is not a 

 large number who wish to engage in such study, and the expense of getting 

 around is no small item. The station was therefore primarily to ofTer a haven 

 for a few enthusiasts who have planned to do something toward the working up of 

 the material of the state, with the hope that the enthusiasm and interest would be 

 more or less contagious, and that in time there would be work of considerable 

 importance and by considerable numbers at the laboratory. 



The two seasons the laboratory has been opened the work has progressed 

 well, and was all that could be expected. During the summer of 1900 the labora- 

 tory was taxed to its utmost. Figure 8 shows a portion of the interior, 

 with the students at work. The tables are rude, and the chairs have been con- 

 structed from raw lumber by unskilled hands, but the material with which they 



FIG. 8. INTERIOR OF LABORATORY. 



work is from the university laboratory, and is the best the country alifords. 

 Above the door may be seen rows of bird skins. To the left is the working 

 library of a couple of hundred volumes. In the rear, not shown, is the photographic 

 dark room and store room. With this small building, accommodating no more 

 than a dozen or fifteen at a time, there has been made a start which it is hoped 

 will later develop into something of importance. 



Figure 9 is an illustration that will interest, if not please, many readers of the 

 Journal. Red-Horn, an Indian who had been on a visit to the Blackfeet in the 

 northern part of the state, and was returning to his home on the Flathead reserve, 

 made us a visit. He was much interested in our work, and seemed to want to 

 know what was being done. He was shown various things through the micro- 

 scope, which pleased him greatly. I persuaded him to let me take his picture, 

 and the pleasure he is having is shown by the smile on his countenance. He 

 was then taken into the dark room, where he watched the picture develop. Later 



