Bull and Stinking Water. : 
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possible that less attention would have been paid to their labors. 
In our day, communication has become more ready. Many young 
Americans study in Europe. Others come to travel after publish- 
ing memoirs. Their scientific zeal is thus increased, and the Eu- 
ropean savants become better acquainted with them. Finally, the 
Anglo-American language is destined, by the force of circum- 
stances, to predominate. In every way, therefore, one may expect 
a larger development of the sciences in the United States—it is 
true ina somewhat distant future, for favorable influences make 
themselves felt only after one or two generations. 
BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS IN WESTERN WYOMING. a 
BY DR. C. C. PARRY. 
EOE 
No. 2. a 
Wisp River, which in pursuing a general southeast course 
drains the entire eastern slope of the Wind River range, also 
receives from the east and north the drainage of an extensive 
mountain district, to which, as a whole, no distinctive name has ye 
been applied. To the most southeastern extension of this moun- 
through the little known Big Horn tributaries of Owl Creek, G 
route, instead of following down the main valley, crossed 
Wind River some distance above the sharp bend above refer 
o, thence crossing a low spur of the Owl Creek range, and sk 
ing near the base of the high mountains to the west, passed Ow 
Creek, Gray Bull and several southern tributaries of Stil r 
Water, to ascend a main branch of the latter stream to its 
