6 BULLETIN 56, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Mr. Holzner was usually with me, but occupied iudependent stations, 

 in 1892. on the Hachita Grande. San Luis (Turkey Canyon), and San 

 Jose mountains ; and he continued with the main party from the San 

 Pedro River to Nogales (and collected 108 mammals and 117 birds during 

 November and December, 1892), after I was removed by the War Depart- 

 ment in November, 1892. He worked alone in the Santa Cruz Valley 

 (and collected 13 mammals and 416 birds) and Huachuca Mountains 

 from June 1 to October 9, 1893, and at Camp Lowell (near Tucson), 

 Arizona, from November 6 to IG, 1893. 



3. Frank Wagnek. hospital steward. U. S. Army. Collected plants along 



parallel 31° 47' from El Paso, Texas, to the lower corner of New Mexico 

 (Monuments Nos. 1 to 53), from August to November, 1892. 



4. Haelan E. McVay, first lieutenant and assistant surgeon, U. S. Army. Made 



a small collection of plants between the San Pedro River and Nogales in 

 November, 1892. 



5. Timothy E. Wilcox, major and surgeon. U. S. Army. Forwarded jilants for 



the boundary collection from Fort Huachuca, Arizona, during the summer 

 and autumn of 1893. These were additional to the extensive collection 

 sent liy him personally. All were subsequently sent to Dr. N. L. Britton. 

 in New York, and were made the basis of a special paper on the flora of 

 the Huachuca Mountains.^ 



6. Ernest C. Merton. acting hospital steward, U. S. Army. Collected plants 



between the San. Pedro River and Dog Spring (Monuments Nos. 98 to 55) 

 from August 1 to September 23, 1893. 



7. LuDwiG ScHOENEFELDT, hospltal Steward. U. S. Army. Collected plants 



assiduously from Fort Yuma, California, to the Pacific Ocean and San 

 Clemente Island from April 6 to September 9. 1894. 



8. Day in Du B. Gaillard. first lieutenant. Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, 



comniissioner. Frequently brought specimens of plants to the collectors 

 in the field during the progress of the survey. 



9. Louts di Zerega Mearns collected mammals, birds, mollusks, and plants 



at Fort Clark, Kinney County, Texas, from November 15, 1897, to June 

 15, 1898. 



The soldiers who served with the biological section were: Frank 

 Wagner, John York, Henry Kramer, Artliur M. Pino, Ernest C. 

 Merton, Starks W. Johnson, John J. Simon, Jesse Redman (teamster), 

 Charles Hackborth, Ludwig Schoenefeldt, James Teagle (teamster), 

 and Privates Randolph, Edwards, and Ford, special escort from 

 Gardners Laguna to San Diego. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



My grateful acknowledgments are due to each of the three commis- 

 sioners, to the army officers, the assistant engineers in charge of the 

 work, and, in fact, nothing short of an enumeration of the entire party 

 would specify the individuals to whom I am indebted for favors 

 and uniformly helpful and courteous treatment. Probably nowhere 



o An enumeration of the plants collected by Dr. Timothy E. Wilcox, U. S. A., 

 and others in southeastern Arizona during the years 1892-1894, by N. L. Brit- 

 ton and T. H. Kearney, jr.. Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., XIV, 1895, pp. 21-44. 



