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surrounding country at the present time, but I believe that a critical 

 study of the plant remains from the various layers of the muck might 

 furnish much interesting information as to the character and climate 

 of that portion of the world, in which there has been a continuous 

 formation of vegetable beds from the beginning of the Glacial period 

 down to the present. I trust that some of our botanists may be able 

 to pay a visit to the Klondike and make a study of these muck beds, 

 and that they may be able to undertake this study at an early date, 

 for I understand that muck beds are particularly well exposed at the 

 present time in some of the valleys through the mining operations of 

 the dredging and hydraulic companies. . 



