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cient cypresses and Monterey pines — The 

 Seventeen-mile Drive — La Punta de los Lobos 



— A seaside retreat — Carmel Bay 



3. The Occidental Hotel and Major Hooper — 

 Stevenson — Muir — Bryce — "Joe" Le Conte 



— Academy of Sciences — "James King of 

 William" — Professional mediums — "Odic 

 force" — "Chinatown" — A Chinese code — 

 Uncle Sam's incantation ineffective — Chinook 

 salmon — Puget Sound — Tacoma and Seattle 



— An infant university — At Neah Bay — 

 Siwash incantation — Victoria — A potlatch 



4. The five salmon — Spawning habits — Age of 

 salmon — The Eulachon — Shad, striped bass, 

 catfish, and carp — Tropical explorations — 

 The Panama Canal 



5. Tahoe trout — • A Mormon friend — Lake 

 Bonneville — A great sucker pond — The "Mor- 

 mon menace" — Value of patience 



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1. Building up a laboratory — Varying degrees — 

 Patchwork courses — Value of Greek ■ — Thor- 

 oughness essential — Elective system in its in- 

 fancy — Conspicuous undergraduate students 



— Graduate students — Not all zoologists — 

 Amos Butler — Sorting the fishes — "Story 

 of a Salmon" 



2. Along the Gulf — A dollar a day — In New 

 Orleans — Broken levees — Varied fauna — A 

 little experiment — In utter darkness — Rescue 



— University of Illinois — A weighty work 



3. The senior tramp — Mountain folk — "Red- 

 mond, the Outlaw" — Stiles's researches — In- 

 digent strains — Valley folk — Stentor of the 

 Yosemite 



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I. Tramps abroad — Swiss mountain passes — In 

 Italy 



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