NOTES ON THE MUSEUM'S COLLECTING 

 EXPEDITIONS IN 1923 



COLLECTING FOR THE SCHOOL LOAN GROUPS 



Bv Owen J. Grommei 



All arrangements having been made and our equipment carefully- 

 packed, Mr. Meinecke and I were ready at noon on May 26th to leave 

 for the field to continue the work started at Fond du Lac last year for 



Fig. 1. — Permanent camp on the shore of Green Bay. 

 Mr. Schoenebeck and Mr. Meinecke. 



the purpose of obtaining material to be used in our school loan groups. 

 Our Ford, with an especially constructed box back, was loaded down to 

 the creaking springs with everything from sleeping bags and cooking 

 utensils to a complete taxidermist's field laboratory. We were pre- 

 pared to spend many nights in the open and away from the main trav- 

 eled highways. 



The timely arrival, at the Museum, of Mr. August Schoenebeck 

 caused a complete change of our plan. For the past twenty years Mr. 



■Assistant Taxidermist, Milwaukee Public Museum. 



