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studio at a time when the background had been about one-half com- 

 pleted. 



A large amount of stone showing the mosses, lichens and other en- 

 crusting growths which are found on the limestone along the edge of 

 the canyon, was collected. This was to form the basis of the fore- 

 ground to be used later in the group. Along with this material, there 

 was sent in to Milwaukee some of the sage brush and other plants 

 which are found at the edge of the canyon. When this had all been 

 gathered together, a car was secured and it was shipped to the Museum, 

 for it was impossible to box the various rock slabs as doing so would 

 greatly injure the eroded surfaces which it was so necessary to pre- 

 serve. All this work occupied nearly six weeks, and at the end of this 

 time the party left its comfortable quarters at El Tovar Hotel and re- 

 turned to Milwaukee. 



Throughout all this time the various employees of the Atchison, 

 Topeka and Santa Fe Railway; of the Fred Harvey Co., Inc.; and of 

 the National Park Service, with whom we came into contact, lent us 

 every aid and showed us every courtesy possible, thus assuring the suc- 

 cess ,of our undertaking. 



BOTANICAL COLLECTING IN SOUTHWESTERN 



WISCONSIN 



By Huron H. SmithI" 



The afternoon of June 23rd, 1922, witnessed the start of a strange 

 hegira, emerging from the back door of the Museum. An Indian mo- 

 torcycle with sidecar loaded to the guards, chortled out of the alley, 

 bound for a botanical survey of the southwestern part of Wisconsin. 

 There was some discussion about Tenus Tuttrup, the helper in botany, 

 sticking his feet in his pockets, for he was the "fair" sidecar passen- 

 ger. It seemed almost impossible to find an available space remaining 

 for his Trilbies. Nor was this all of the luggage. A fat trunk had 

 been expressed ahead to our first collecting ground. Black River Falls, 

 in Jackson county. The Curator is shown at Black River Falls with 

 the motorcycle in figure 68. This carried all of the collecting gear, 

 blotters, corrugated boards, hickory presses, a few reams of tea papers, 

 our lanterns to furnish the drying heat, canvas petticoats to swathe 

 the drying presses and confine the heat to where it would do the most 

 good, extra apparel and the like. 



"Curator of Botany, Milwaukee Public Museum. 



