Illustrations 



JOHN MUIR (PHOTOGRAVURE) . . . Frontispiece 

 From a photograph copyrighted by J. Edward B. 

 Greene. 



MUIR'S LAKE (FOUNTAIN LAKE) AND THE GAR- 

 DEN MEADOW 62 



OUR FIRST WISCONSIN HOME 100 



CLOCK WITH HAND RISING AND SETTING WITH THE 

 SUN, INVENTED BY THE AUTHOR IN HIS BoY- 



HOOD 132 



BAROMETER INVENTED BY THE AUTHOR IN HIS 

 BOYHOOD 164 



COMBINED THERMOMETER, HYGROMETER, BARO- 

 METER, AND PYROMETER, INVENTED BY THE 

 AUTHOR IN HIS BOYHOOD 196 



THE HICKORY HILL HOUSE, BUILT IN 1857 . . 230 



THERMOMETER INVENTED BY THE AUTHOR IN 

 HIS BOYHOOD 258 



SELF-SETTING SAWMILL. MODEL BUILT IN CEL- 

 LAR. INVENTED BY THE AUTHOR IN HIS BOY- 

 HOOD 258 



MY DESK, MADE AND USED AT THE WISCONSIN 

 STATE UNIVERSITY 284 



