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this collection was determined. All of this was hnally ready and after 

 its shipment the party immediately left for Tacoma and rettirned to 

 Milwaukee. 



Exactly one month was spent in the Park, and during all this time 

 the officials and employes of the Rainier National Park Company 

 continued to show the various members of the party every courtesy and 

 rendered assistance wherever possible. \\"e also enjoyed the most 

 hearty co-operation of the National Park Service. ^Ir. Nelson, the 

 Superintendent of the Park and his assistants, ^Messrs. Schmoe and 

 Teller, let pass no opportunity of assisting in the work and of rendering 

 easy tasks which would have been otherwise difficult. Without the aid 

 of Messrs. Teller and Schmoe as guides, it would have been impossible 

 for the members of the party to carr}- out many of the investigations 

 on the glacier. x\lso in the transporting of the collections, the facili- 

 ties afforded by !Mr. Nelson's office were of very great aid at a moment 

 when the saving of time was most necessarv. 



OVER THE ICE TO WILSON GLACIER 



By S. a. Barrett" 



After some conversations with Mr. George B. Haynes, General 

 Passenger Agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway 

 Company, and also a very pleasant conference with Mr. T. H. ^lartin, 

 General ^lanager of the Mount Rainier National Park Company, 

 arrangements were made whereby these two companies were to finance 

 the fieldwork for the first of our large geological groups. 



Upon arriving at Longmire Springs on July 22, 1922, we found 

 ^Mr. ^lartin in active super^'ision of the tourist travel in Rainier Na- 

 tional Park. His company was operating, in addition to the two large 

 hotels and the camps, a large fleet of motor stages and cars, a large 

 number of horses for trail trips and an excellent guide ser\'ice for trips 

 onto the glaciers and to the summit of the mountain. 



We found the facilities of each and ever\- branch of this vast 

 service immediately at our disposal and whether it was a special car, 

 a special guide, or pack animals, that we needed, they were forth- 

 coming almost immediately upon request. With such facilities as these, 

 our project must succeed. 



After some days of reconnaissance on several of the glaciers, we 



•Director, Milwaukee Public Museum. 



