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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



I have been twice to the summit. I may plant the cylinder on 

 Mt. Banajao, almost equally high, in the mean time and send for 

 another. 



Apo is not as high as its reputation. My aneroid readings 

 ranged from 9,100 to 9,480 feet, the lower figure being nearer 

 correct. The first ascent was made by two German naturalists, 

 Koch and Schadenberg, February 22, 1882, Subsequent ascents 

 were by an Englishman, Burke, in 1884; by Lieutenant Thomas 

 and three other Americans, in 1900 ; and by two teachers, De Vore 

 and Hoover, in 1903. Lieutenant Thomas copied the earlier sig- 

 natures, and brought down the original as a proof of the ascent. 

 Apo is reputed to be a volcano, but it is not as good a cone as 

 Mt. Lassen ; and the top, instead of a well-formed crater, is a 

 small moor. The flora is limited and its affinities northern. My 

 ascents were April 20 and 23, 1904. 



This much may be of interest to the Club. I do not care to 

 send more, as anything on the subject is foreign to the scope of 

 the Bulletin, as Mr. Hutchinson defined it to me last summer. 

 The January Bulletin has not been forwarded to me. Please 

 change my address to Manila. 



Sincerely yours, 



Edwin Bingham Copeland. 



Zamboanga, p. L, November 10, 1904. 

 Secretary of the Sierra Club, San Francisco. 



Dear Sir — The cylinder you sent me was deposited on the 

 summit of Mt. Apo October 24th. The altitude is probably 

 about 9,400 feet. My aneroid measurements are rather less, but 

 Major Mearns' figures are a little higher. I have been up but 

 three times, and am told he made six ascents in the course of 

 about a month's work on the fauna. 

 The panorama is : — 



About N. E., Mt. Roosevelt. (I did not see it this trip.) 

 N. 75° E., Davao. 



N. 120° E., Malalag, a very picturesque coasst. 

 S., Sarangani Bay. 

 S. 15° E., Matutan. 

 W., Cottabato. 



Roosevelt is a peak of a great mountain called appropriately 

 ** The Punch Bowl " ; another is known locally as McKinley ; but 

 as that name is in better use in Alaska, the whole mountain here 

 may better be called Roosevelt. It is rather under nine thousand 

 feet high and wooded to the top. Matutan is a very perfect vol- 



