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the mountains and north to White Horse, in Yukon Ter- 

 ritory, a hundred miles into the Canadian. Northwest. 

 This great scenic route follows the trail of the Klondik- 

 ers of '98. Along the way are several lakes. Stops were 

 made for collecting at Carcross and at Bennett; at the 

 latter place the ponds are at an elevation of over two, 

 thousand feet. To the east lies the beautiful Atlin Lake 

 region, and a few days were spent in collecting material 

 in small pools there. 



The first material from Alaskan waters was secured 

 at Skagway, at two stations ; one was a small pool in the 

 town and the other was the lake reservoir, 1500 feet 

 above the town. In Lake Dewey, adjacent to this, no 

 water mites were found. At Juneau, the territorial 

 capitol, the ponds and pools visited yielded nothing. 

 But in Sitka, the old Russian town and former capitol, 

 I was directed to a pond in a sphagnum bed, choked with 

 yellow water lilies, which gave several interesting forms. 



The most intensive collecting was done during a two 

 weeks' stay in Cordova, the port of the Copper River 

 country, famous for its copper and its salmon. Here is 

 a large and beautiful body of water, Lake Eyak, at sea 

 level, and a number of mountain pools, with clay bottoms, 

 in beds of sphagnum, at elevations of a few hundred 

 feet, From Cordova I made the trip on the Copper 

 River and Northwestern Railway, "the Iron Trail" of 

 Rex Beach fame, past Miles and Childs Glaciers, another 

 wonderful scenic route, to the little town of Chitna, one 

 hundred and thirty miles inland. Here among the moun- 

 tains are several small lakes near the town, one of them 

 at an elevation of 750 feet. 



At Seward, on farther to the westward, we again left 

 the steamer, this time to board a train on the Govern- 

 ment Railway, for the trip across the Kenai Penninsula 

 to the new town of Anchorage, over a hundred miles 

 north. Again our route took us over a great pass and 

 between living glaciers, with beautiful mountain scenery 

 at every turn. A day's stop in Anchorage afforded a 

 chance to do a little collecting in some small pools. 



I was fortunate in being able to make two stops on 

 Kodiak Island. The town of Kodiak, at the northern 



