A CENTURY OF BOTANICAL EXPLORATION IN MONTANA. 15 



collections in various parts of Gallatin county (1900-1903) and sets 

 of their specimens are in the herbarium of that institution. 



Frank A. Spragg, while preparing his thesis in botany at ihe Mont. 

 Agr. College, collected in 1900 and 1901 in Fergus coumy and re- 

 gion adjacent, largely grasses, which are in the herbarium of the 

 college. 



H. C. Cowles, Professor of Botany in the University of Chicago, 

 with some 19 students spent some time collecting along the Great 

 Northern Railway and at McDonald and Flathead Lakes in August, 

 1901, the chief set of the specimens going to the University of Chi- 

 cago. 



L. M. Umbach, Professor of Biology at Northwestern College, 

 Naperville, 111., made large and important collections in Montana 

 in 1901 and 1903, principally in the Lake McDonald region, and at 

 Big Fork and Midvale. His collections are at that institution, but 

 there are duplicate sets at the N. Y. Bot. Card, and Mont. Agr. Coll. 



M. J. Elrod, Professor of Biology at the L'niversity of Montana, 

 and some of his students collected about Missoula and the Flathead 

 Lake region (1899-1904), their collections going to the University 

 of Montana with duplicates at Mont. Agr. Coll. and the N. Y. Bot. 

 .Card. 



Wilson P. Harris of Brooklyn, N. Y., collected Lichens and Mosses 

 in western Montana, principally about Missoula and the Flathead 

 Lake, in the summer of 1901 under the auspices of the New York 

 Botanical Garden. The Lichens were determined by Prof. Bruce 

 Fink and Mrs. Isaac Harris and the Mosses by Mrs. Elizabeth G. 

 Britton. Sets of this collection are at the New York Botanical Ger- 

 den, the University of Montana and in the herbaria of Mr. Harris 

 and his mother, while the results of his work appear in Bull. No. 19, 

 Univ. of Mont., Missoula, 1904. 



Harry N. Whitford with others from the University of Chicago 

 worked in the same locality in 1902, paying particular attention to 

 forestry. 



T. J. Fitzpatrick of Iowa City, Iowa also made an extensive bo- 

 tanical collection in the Mission Mountains and Flathead Lake 

 region in 1902. 



