208 AMEEICA : GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION 



and * growlers ' of the seventies. Everyone seemed to be well 

 educated. A visit to the Museum and Natural History Insti- 

 tute endowed by Peabody at Salem, where the Professor was 

 teaching Zoology to a mixed class of school teachers, for the 

 most part, on the lines of Huxley's courses at S. Kensington, 

 prefaces the remark, ' The thirst for knowledge in this State 

 is most wonderful ' ; and the sight of Wellesley College, a rich 

 man's gift to the State for the education of female school 

 teachers, prompts the reflection, ' Education is the rage here ; 

 wealthy people do not know what to do with their money.' 



The journey was broken for a day at Cincinnati and at 

 St. Louis, where the party was joined by Dr. Lambourne, 

 Professor Leidy, * the very great zoologist whom Huxley swears 

 by, who wants to explore the minute animals, Diatoms, Rhizo- 

 pods, &c., of the Colorado waters,' further north in Wisconsin, 

 his wife and adopted daughter, Mr. Hayden, head of the 

 Geological Survey, and Captain Stevenson, his chief assistant. 



Then followed two nights and nearly two days on the newly 

 made railway to Pueblo across the prairies along the Arkansas 

 river. At Pueblo the Leidys went north ; the others to Canon 

 City. Then Hooker and the Stracheys went by wagon over 

 the hills to La Veta, visiting on the way Dr. Bell, an English- 

 man who had settled there, and was President of the local rail- 

 road. The main survey party went direct to La Veta by rail, and 

 established a camp at 9000 feet as a centre for botanical work. 



The facilities [he notes] of getting about this world's 

 end of a country are wonderful, but travelling is very fatigu- 

 ing, as you have to go great distances and there is so much 

 to learn and see by the way, and everything is rough and 

 hard. 



Again, 



the education, intelligence and general prosperity of the 

 people still impresses me very agreeably. Here at this 

 wretched collection of scattered ' balloon ' cabins [i.e. rough 

 pine planks] and adobe huts I find eight or ten journals and 

 newspapers sold, and of the very latest date, and there are 

 several ' balloon ' churches. 



