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Schoenebeck has done considerable collecting in the neighborhood of 

 Advance, Wisconsin, and has made many valuable contributions to the 

 exhibits of the Museum. His field activities have brought him in close 

 contact with nature in that region, and he suggested that a change in 

 our plans might be to our advantage. We accordingly met him in Ad- 

 vance, whence he conducted us to his summer cottage about three 

 miles from Suamico on the shores of Green Bay and about nine miles 

 north of the city of Green Bay itself. This cottage he placed at our 

 disposal for the season. 



About a mile of the road from Suamico to the camp lay through a 



1* IG. 2. — Looking north on the Green Bay shore, shownig Little Tail 

 in the distance. 



marsh, and had to be negotiated very slowly and with great care, as a 

 severe jolt to our already overburdened car might have resulted in a 

 broken spring, but presently we found ourselves comfortably estab- 

 lished in our permanent quarters, shown in figure 1, and ready for 

 work. 



The next day was spent in general reconnaissance work, and in 

 making a survey of the surrounding country which was very low and 

 flat for about a quarter of a mile inland, and covered with a thick 

 growth of marsh grass with here and there an "island" of low willow 



