138 ILLINOIS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 
with less eccentricity than the every day corn husker. Treat 
him as a fellow citizen, sensibly, with an open mind, and by 
all means let him boss the transportation, do the cooking and 
select the camp sites. I have traveled more than thirty vaca- 
tions in wild places after this good health, by wagon, canoe 
and pack train, and sometimes alone and on foot, and do not 
recall an unfortunate experience or a seriously cross word. 
And the scenery I have met, and the floral displays, and the 
beauties of landscape plots, just as nature left them, is some- 
thing not to be described in words, by myself. “Pray, pray 
without ceasing,’ my parson says. I do—lI pray for the South- 
west the day long and dream more prayers by night. At my 
only meeting with Dr. Mearns, old and feeble, tears came 
instantly to his eyes. ‘‘Oh, I want to go to Arizona so bad!” 
he said, and it is ever so. The traveler who has left the rail- 
road, caught the incense of the desert or camped in the forested 
hills, ever longs to return. He will dream of the strange 
katydids fiddling in the night, the sweet notes of the canyon 
wren, the brilliancy of the trout in the mountain parks, ana 
the flaming skies of dawn and sunset. 
Unless one is a student of plant life, or the train should pass 
through canyons, it may not be a pleasing prospect to the 
collector from a car window. Perhaps should he stay over 
but a day or two the spell of the mountain, the lure of the 
desert, would not be overwhelming. It is to sleep in the open, 
to dig, and reflect, to climb and ponder, to muse and dream 
week after week and month after month that works the spell. 
The first comers in the Huachuca mountains, and the Chir- 
icahuas, found two snails in each range. I have assisted in 
finding forty new to science in one and nearly as many in the 
other. Lemmon camped one summer in the Huachucas and re- 
turned for other visits. He did not find all the ferns in the 
range, but found more than his successors have rediscovered. 
Here are probably more beautiful and exclusive ferns, cacti, 
agaves, than in any other part of the nation, and ever will be, 
unless Mexico by vote comes into the Union. For the col- 
lector in botany, conchology, archaeology, mineralogy—birds. 
reptiles, insects, watermoles, and the student in astronomy, and 
the experimenter in arid agriculture and horticulture here is 
the ultima thule. 
