he was disappointed. In the meantime he made a voyage 

 to the Straits of Fuca and spent a month on Whitby's 

 Island, collecting specimens, returning to Shoalwater 

 Bay in July where he remained until Oct. 4, when he 

 sailed in the Coast Survey steamer Active, by invitation 

 of Capt. Allen, to San Francisco. He spent six weeks 

 in collecting specimens in the Santa Clara Valley, then 

 proceeding southward to Panama he collected shells for 

 his father, whose last scientific writing was a report on 

 West Coast shells, Pacific R. R. Report. This large col- 

 lection passed into the hands of the Chicago Academy of 

 Sciences and was destroyed in the great fire. Dr. Suck- 

 ley was not with him at this time, he having returned to 

 the East. Altogether Dr. Cooper spent two years and 

 three months in Washington Territory, and this was 

 really his school of preparation. From April i, 1854, 

 until 1857, all of the work that he did was by his own 

 private enterprise and in obedience to his love for science, 

 and it is at this point that we bid farewell to the botanist 

 and welcome the ornithologist and conchologist. 



On April 22, 1857, Dr. Cooper was by the Secretary of 

 the Interior, appointed Surgeon to the Wagon Road from 

 Fort Kearney to the South Pass and Honey Lake. How- 

 ever, when the expedition reached the Rocky Mountains, 

 it became necessary to disband it, and the Doctor went 

 on a collecting trip through the Mojave desert. The re- 

 sults of this trip are contained in his various reports on 

 the fauna of Montana, Wyoming and the Mojave, and 



