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Utah, returning to Iowa to prepare his sets of plants for shipping to 
Europe. There, Feb. 18, 1880, he married a former college-mate and 
pupil, a very beautiful girl, Anna Elizabeth Richardson, also a Phi Beta 
Kappa scholar and at that time Acting Dean of Women. Together they 
very artistic. She accompanied him on some very difficult trips and 
ary ke him make many souvenir booklets of wild flowers, which they 
sold. 
For one year Prof. Jones taught in Salt Lake Academy, one of the 
two “Gentile” high schools there, and from 1881 for eight or nine years 
he and Mrs. Jones conducted a private high school and kindergarten for 
non-Mormon children. Mrs. Jones was a remarkable teacher, and fre- 
quently, even in later life was persuaded to do tutoring. 
During these early years Prof. Jones made many long botanical trips 
through California, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah, and even as 
far as El Paso, publishing his findings in the Torrey Bulletin until they 
refused to publish any more unless first submitted to Asa Gray for his 
approval. As Prof. Jones felt that he knew the western flora better than 
Gray, he refused to do this and ceased publishing for some years, later 
sending his articles to Zoe until he decided to publish them himself. He 
continued to send sets of plants to Karl von Keck in Austria for Euro- 
pean distribution and received 20,000 European specimens in return. It 
was von Keck who had Prof. Jones’ “Excursion Botanique” published in 
Liege, Belgium, by E. Morren about 1879 or 1881. 
In 1889, Prof. Jones was engaged by the president of the University 
of Utah (then practically all Mormon) to organize the university library 
and install the Dewey system. 
Utah. He explored and sampled all the 
as he went) around Omega Mts., Dugway, 
Fish Springs, Ibapah, Deep Creek Mts., Dutch Mts., Gold Hill, Clifton, 
ncoe, Aurum, Shell Creek Mts., Sprucemont, and Antelope Spring. 
That winter he set up a complete laboratory for assaying, and employed 
two expert chemists, E. P. Austin, who was also the creator and owner 
of “Psyche”, the leading entomological journal in North America, and 
Victor C. Heikes, who later became the head of the U. S. Geological 
in Salt Lake City. : 
plan egies n. Palmer telegraphed him to go to Mexico 
In the spring of 1892 Ge ree 
to examine the Sierra Majada, Zacatecas, Guanahuato region and the 
