Lassens 

 Butte 



The Days of a Man 1894 



volcano with a small crater at the summit, still hot 

 and erupting at times. Though previously quiescent 

 for half a century, Mount Lassen has again become 

 intermittently violent, several considerable outbreaks 

 having taken place within the last decade. Some 

 fifty years ago an overflow of lava down the east 

 side blocked a stream and formed a small lake in 

 the forest. Out of it the smothered trees still rise 

 gaunt and naked from the water. Below the Butte 

 on the south side, a small geyser basin, locally 

 known as "Bumpus' Hell," has been produced by 

 the contact of underground streams with hot rocks. 

 Near by is Vinegar Lake, a large, very sour pond 

 impregnated with sulphurous acid. 



An During the whole of 1894, as well as in the four 



inclusive preceding years, I gave all my available time 



American that is, all not demanded by the University or by 



fishes outside lectures to the most extensive and the 



most trying of my scientific writings, "The Fishes 



of North and Middle America." l This work I had 



begun in 1889 in Bloomington, at Dr. Goode's 



u 



1 DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY 

 OF 



THOSE ICHTHYOLOGISTS OF THE PAST 



WHO HAVE STUDIED 

 AMERICAN FISHES IN AMERICA 



IN TOKEN OF 



"THE ONLY REWARD THEY ASKED 

 A GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THEIR WORK*' 



Here followed a list of fifty-one pioneer naturalists. "Middle" instead 

 of "Central" America was adopted as a more logical term, at the request 

 of Dr. Goode. The same phraseology was also used by Ridgway for his 

 corresponding treatise on birds. 



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