1020 WILD RICE GATHERERS OF UPPER LAKES (ETH, ANN. 19 
I am indebted to Professor Richard T. Ely, director, and to Professor 
William A. Scott and Professor Frederick J. Turner, of the school of 
economics, political science, and history, of the University of Wis- 
consin, at Madison, where this study was made, for the suggestions 
and assistance usually given in the preparation of such a thesis. 
Most of the historical data was collected in the library of the Wis- 
consin Historical Society, at Madison. To Mr Reuben Gold Thwaites, 
secretary and superintendent, and to other members of the library 
staff, | owe much. By unusual favors and almost constant service they 
have greatly lessened my labors. 
I am also under obligation to Professor F. W. Woll, chemist of the 
experiment station at Madison, for his painstaking analysis showing 
the nutritive value of wild rice. 
A part of the data was collected by correspondence, and I gladly 
take this opportunity to thank those gentlemen whose names appear 
in the subjoined list of correspondents. 
But most of all I am indebted to Professor W J McGee, ethnologist 
in charge of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and to Dr Otis T. 
Mason, of the United States National Museum, both of whom 
suggested the subject of this study. Through correspondence and 
personal conferences ‘Professor McGee has rendered valuable assist- 
ance. It is to him also that I owe the opportunity of visiting many 
wild rice producing Indians in the autumn of 1899, when I obtained 
additional data and the illustrations for this study. 
Tam aware that the text of this memoir carries a greater burden of 
facts than is necessary to prove the points of the thesis. Had the 
study been published simply as a doctor’s thesis, many facts now in 
the text would have been omitted, or put in footnotes or appendices. 
