2IO SOME AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANISTS 



economic relations of the plants of the Southwest. 

 Much of this material was wholly new. The so- 

 called ' loco plants,' which were a cause of great 

 injury to the stock-raisers, came under my ob- 

 servation and were as thoroughly described in 

 appearance and in effects as the early knowledge 

 of the times allowed. It is fair to remark that, 

 though I left much to be said about them, little 

 of anything I did say has since been disproved. 



" In 1876 I had the happy idea of taking 

 weakly boys in summer out into camp life in the 

 woods and under competent instruction ming- 

 ling exercise and study, so that pursuit of health 

 could be combined with acquisition of practical 

 knowledge outside the usual academic lines. I 

 founded the school on North Mountain, Luzerne 

 County, Pennsylvania, and designated it a School 

 of Physical Culture.' There had been, I think, 

 but a single attempt to do this work at an earlier 

 period. The multitude, now, of such camps 

 shows the seed fell into good ground. 



" I was elected Professor of Botany in the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania in 1877, and served until 

 1 89 1, when I devoted myself wholly to conduct- 

 ing a forestry propaganda in Pennsylvania. I 

 had, however, in the meantime, been also giving 



'This camp was taken over and continued for two years by Dr. 

 Lewis H. Taylor, Herr Frank and myself. We received and taught 

 about twenty boys from upper schools and from college, in zoology, 

 meteorology and botany. H. A. K. 



