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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



July 



knowledge of the wonderful explorations of 

 Lewis and Clarke in 1804-1806. 



That historic expedition, consisting of 45 

 men (later, at Fort Mandan, reduced to 31 men 

 and one Indian woman, with her three months' 

 old papoose), left St. Louis, ascended the Mis- 

 souri River to its headwaters, crossed the moun- 

 tains to the Columbia, and descended that 

 stream to its mouth, and returned within less 

 than two years and a half. 



A publication relating to the expedition, is- 

 sued recently by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New 

 York, stands peculiarly and uniquely alone. 

 The author, Mr. Olin D. Wheeler, is well known 

 as the writer of the popular Wonderland series 

 of the Northern Pacific Railway, in connection 

 with which he made his studies and researches 

 for this more pretentious work. 



Mr. Wheeler has traveled several thousand 

 miles over the old route of Lewis and Clarke, 

 on railway trains and steamboats, in rowboats, 

 afoot, on horseback, and in buggies or wagons. 

 He has traveled with pack trains, camped out, 

 and climbed mountains, in following the old 

 Indian trails that the explorers followed and 

 in visiting remote points made memorable by 

 them. He has sojourned among Indian tribes, 

 some of them now almost extinct, that Lewis 

 and Clarke visited, and he has talked with one 

 old squaw who, as a child, saw Lewis and 

 Clarke. 



The explorer's route across the Bitter Root 

 Mountains, from the headwaters of the Mis- 

 souri River to the sources of the Snake River, 

 and thence to the Kooskooske or Clearwater 

 River, which has always been an unsolved 

 problem, full of uncertainties and gaps, has 

 been carefully followed and completely solved 

 and mapped. 



"The Trail of Lewis and Clarke " is illus- 

 trated in color and half tone from paintings, 

 drawings, and maps made under Mr. Wheeler's 

 direction , and from photographs taken by pro- 

 fessional photographers who accompanied him 

 for the purpose. 



The original manuscript journals of Lewis 

 and Clarke were studied by the author, and 

 exactexcerpts and photographic reproductions, 

 in half tone, of their pages and drawings are 

 given. 



The Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. 

 Louis, and the Lewis and Clarke Centennial, to 

 be held at Portland, Oregon, in 1905, to com- 

 memorate the great exploration itself, make 

 this work by Mr. Wheeler peculiarly timely 

 and apropos, because it is written by the only 

 person who, from actual travel over, and in- 

 vestigation of, the Lewis and Clarke route, can 

 write from the standpoint of actual knowledge 

 of past and present conditions of the old trail 

 and country. 



Bulletin of the Michigan Ornithological Club. 

 Published by the Club, at Detroit, Mich., 

 quarterly. 



The first issue of this bulletin for the present 

 year is a most creditable one, and should be 

 seen by every ornithologist in the country for 

 its three articles on Kirtlaod's warbler, one of 

 the rarest and most interesting of all American 



birds. The writers have each taken a differ- 

 ent phase of the bird's life, so that the trio of 

 essays is complete and adds much to the pres- 

 ent knowledge of this warbler and its habits. 

 For careful editing this bulletin is to be espe- 

 cially commended. 



NEW MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN 

 FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



The following-named persons have joined 

 the American Forestry Association since our 

 May issue : 



Bancroft, William P., Wilmington, Del. 



Barstow, Dr. J. W., Vergennes, Vt. 



Bullard, Henry W., Cambridgeport, Mass. 



Burdett, Glencarlyn, Va. 



Bush, Walker D., Wilmington, Del. 



Butler, Charles S., 52 Wall street, New York 



City. 



Chase, Lewis, Rochester, N. Y. 

 Clossett and Denvers, Portland, Oregon. 

 Davis, James Sherlock, Grand street and Gard- 

 ner avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

 Delameter, D. C., 487 Third street, Detroit, 



Mich. 



Dickinson, La Fell, Ashuelot, N. H. 

 Donnell, William C-, Houlton, Maine. 

 Dow, D. Webster, 121 Beverly street, Boston, 



Mass. 



Dunn, W. H., 211 East Broad street, Rich- 

 mond, Va. 



du Pont, H. A., Winterthur, Del. 

 du Pont, T. C., Wilmington, Del 

 Earle, Samuel C., 9 Electric avenue, West 



Sommerville, Mass. 

 Fish, Mrs. Clara P. (Sustaining member), Pres- 



cott street, Longwood, Mass. 

 Fisk, Harvey Edward, 35 Cedar street, New 



York City. 

 Harris, John L., care of Metcalf Shingle Co., 



Kelso, Wash. 

 Hawks, James D., 999 Jefferson avenue, Detroit, 



Mich. 



Hoffman, Mrs. Catherine A., Enterprise, Kans. 

 Jordan, Frank M., Montfort. Que., Canada. 

 Kent, Henry O., Lancaster, N. H. 

 Lane, Mrs Louisa G., 380 Washington street, 



Norwich, Conn. 

 Lindsay, James, Paia, H. T. 

 Malcom, Arthur, Bethlehem, N. H. 

 Malcom, Mrs Amelia V., Bethlehem, N. H. 

 Miller, Mrs. Ida Farr, Wakefield, Mass. 

 Mumford, N. W., 26 Wilder arcade, Rochester, 



N. Y. 



Myrick, Herbert, Springfield, Mass. 

 Palmer, Honore, 77 East Jackson boulevard, 



Chicago, 111. 



Pauls, Gustavus, The Altenheim, St. Louis, Mo. 

 Pereles, Judge - , Milwaukee, Wis. 

 Pereles, Hon. F. J., Milwaukee, Wis. 

 Rowe, Henry C. , 490 Orange street, New Haven, 



Conn. 



Runk, Mrs Emma T. B., Lambertville, N. J. 

 Wayland, Mrs. Francis, 175 Whitney avenue, 



New Haven, Conn. 



Withington, Hon D. L., Honolulu, H. T. 

 Wright, John G., 620 Atlantic avenue, Boston, 



Mass. 



