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the Smithsonian Institution to Alaska to make 

 collections in Natural History and Ethnology, and 

 to study the Aleuts. From headquarters at Nushagak 

 on Bristol Bay, he sent back valuable material, 

 including a new species of Snow Bunting. One 

 stormy night, however, he started to cross the 

 turbulent Nushagak River in a skin bidarka, and 

 was never seen again. In his death, science suffered 

 a distinct loss. 



In Appleton I soon met an unusual woman whose a 

 friendship in that year of my apprenticeship formed f^^^^ 

 later, in California, a curious link with the most 

 vital part of my career as a teacher. This was 

 Mary Frazer Macdonald from Inverness, Scotland, 

 a slender, energetic, fiery little Highlander, a devoted 

 feminist and suffragist, with, moreover, a wide 

 knowledge of literature. Elaborately educated in 

 Germany as a kindergarten teacher, she had been 

 called directly to Appleton at the opening of the 

 Collegiate Institute. Arriving there, she learned 

 with dismay that her salary of ^1000 (which looked 

 large when expanded into German marks) was less 

 than that paid to the principal then in charge, a 

 man distinctly her inferior. Because of this dis- 

 crimination, which she thought unfair, she resigned 

 at the end of the first year, remaining, however, in 

 town for a few more months, during which period 

 she became much interested in my scientific work 

 and occasionally dropped into my classes. 



About Appleton, algae were few and insignificant. Turning 

 and I had no microscope adequate for their study, ^° 

 while fishes were abundant and varied in Fox River ^^ " 

 and the neighboring lakes of Winnebago and Buttes 

 des Morts. With Miss Macdonald's assistance I 



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