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on the agricultural grasses of the state (4th and 5th Proc. Soc. Prom. 

 Agr. Science, pp. 87-93. Newburg, N. Y. 1885). 



A. B. Seymour, now connected with the Cryptogamic Herbarium 

 of Harvard University, made a trip through the state in 1884 along 

 the line of the Northern Pacific Railway collecting parasitic fungi. 

 He stopped at Billings, Livingston, Bozeman, Helena, and Thomp- 

 ><>n Falls. Sets of this collection are in his private herbarium, at 

 the I'niv. of Illinois, in whose interest he made the excursion, and 

 at Harvard University. A list of the plants collected was published 

 in Boston in 1889 (Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 4: 182-191). 



F. D. Kelsey, a Congregational minister at Helena, took up botany 

 as a recreation and did much to arouse interest in this science over 

 the state. He collected mainly in Lewis and Clarke, but also in Deer 

 Lodge, Ravalli and Jefferson counties and as far east as Bil- 

 lings, his work extending from 1885 to 1892. It was under his di- 

 rection that the World's Fair collection of 1893 was made and this 

 is now in the herb, of Mont. Agr. College, but all his private her- 

 barium is at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, where he was pro- 

 fessor of botany after leaving Montana. In conjunction with An- 

 derson he published a number of papers on the flora. 



W. T. Shaw made a small collection of plants about Bozeman 

 in 1892 and previously at Deer Lodge; these are now in the herb, 

 Montana Agricultural College. 



F. W. Traphagen, while connected with the College of Montana 

 at Deer Lodge was largely instrumental in building up the herbarium 

 of that institution. His collections (1887-1890) were mainly from 

 that vicinity and are deposited with that institution, a duplicate 

 bet being at the N. Y. Bot. Garden. 



Mrs. Emma W. Scheuber of Livingston (Miss Emma J. Ware), 

 then a teacher, collected in Deer Lodge county and on the Big 

 Blackfoot, at Philipsburg, Beartown, Granite (1888-1892) and later 

 about Livingston. She donated her collections to the Agricultural 

 College, Bozeman. 



Georg Dieck of Zoeschen bei Merseburg, Germany, collected in 

 Central Montana (Deer Lodge) in August, 1888 the plants being de- 

 termined and results published by J. Freyn (Deutsch Bot. Monats. 



