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and sleep where night overtakes him may rise early 

 with his specimens and he will see great sights. 



A happy collector is one who has a partner willing 

 to stay with the animals. Thus the supplies may be 

 transported into the box canyons and close to the high 

 peaks and precipices where the rarest and best speci- 

 mens are to be found. Little time is then thrown away 

 in long walks after supplies or between camp and speci- 

 mens. I have visited Cochise county on five of my an- 

 nual vacations, giving a large part of my time to ferns. 

 The first trip, 1902, I attempted to overtake Dr. D. T. 

 McDougal, chasing Cacti. He got away into Mexico 

 and I stopped at Nogales. Then followed trips with 

 Frank Woodruff, ornithologist, Chicago Academy of 

 Sciences, 1904 ; Dr. H. A. Pilsbry, conchologist, Phil- 

 adelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, 190G ; L. E. 

 Daniels, conchologist, Indiana survey and H. S. 

 Swarth, ornithologist Field Museum of Chicago (now 

 of the Berkley college) 1907; and with Dr. Eltweed 

 Pomeroy, sociologist, wife and son of Newark, N. J. 

 in 1908. 



Probably August and September are the best moun- 

 tain months in Arizona, following the rainy July. 

 Then the flowers are in bloom. This year the vacation 

 extended from Sept. 15th to Nov. 15th. One day the 

 snow fell upon the mountain tops heavily but every day 

 was a delight. On a windy day we dodged all the fall- 

 ing pines and only lost a hat. The tent was pitched in 

 a mountain park and nearly all the plant driers were 

 found and found dry. 



There are nine rattle-snakes in Arizona and about 

 50 of the squirrel kind. I have found about thirty 

 new species of land snails, and the flowers and trees, 

 the large animals and small, the birds and lizards are 



