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lated things have been lumped together under one specific name 

 it is nearh' always a most difficult matter to recognize and group 

 properly the real distinctive characters. Professor Setchell 

 certainly deser^-es congratulation for getting hold of the tangled 

 threads in what seems to be the right way in this Scinaia matter. 



Marshall A. Howe 



Da'vid Douglas's Journal 



A volume of unusual interest to the Pacific Xorthwest has just 

 been published by the Royal Horticultural Society of London, 

 entitled "Journal kept by David Douglas During His Travels in 

 North America 1823-1827, Together With a Particular De- 

 scription of ThirtA'-three Species of American Oaks and Eighteen 

 Species of Finns, "With Appendices containing a List of the Plant 

 Introduced by Douglas and an Account of his Death in 1834." 



Douglas was the botanist for whom the most improtant timber 

 tree in the Pacific Xorthwest, viz.. the Douglas or red fir, is 

 named. 



The portion of the present volume of most interest to students 

 of the Xorthwest is that part of the verbatim Journal kept b\- 

 Douglas during his first trip to western America, from the time 

 he reached the mouth of the Columbia River, April 7, 1825, 

 until he sailed from Hudson Bay September 15, 1827. This 

 journal covers 218 printed pages. During this period Douglas 

 made botanical explorations from his headquarters at Fort \'an- 

 couver as far south as the Rogue River Mountains in Oregon; 

 northward to Gra^^ Harbor and the head of Puget Sound ; in the 

 interior all along the Columbia River to Kettle Falls; the region 

 between Spokane and the present site of Lewiston, Idaho; the 

 Craig ]Mountains; the Blue Mountains about the source of the 

 Walla Walla River; and finally across the continent by wa\- of 

 the upper Columbia RiA'er and down the Athabaska and Sas- 

 katchewan Rivers to Lake Winnipeg and thence to Hudson Ba^*. 



The only account of these explorations preA-iousl^' published 

 is a condensed narrative by Douglas published after his death by 

 Sir \A'illiam J. Hooker. This condensed narrative is republished 

 in the present volume. The original is in Douglas's own hand- 



