Mounts St. Elias and Orizaba, — Lindenkohl. 213 
already written you, and the much more that you know yourself, you 
will be in a position to give the history as fully as it can be given, and 
the rest belongs to Lesquereux and will be given to him by science. 
I shall be quite content if I have been instrumental in carrying out 
Prof. Lesquereux's evident desire to name this interesting fossil plant 
in your honor. This so clearly expressed desire on his part should be 
sufficient to overcome any feeling of delicacy that you might otherwise 
have about taking the initiative in making his wishes known and, at the 
same time, adding an important contribution to science. I inclose Prof. 
Lesquereux's descriptions and drawings. 
Yours very sincerely, 
Lester F. Ward. 
MOUNT ST. ELIAS IN ALASKA AND MOUNT ORI- 
ZABA IN MEXICO. 
By A. Lindenkohl,* Washington, D. C. 
Plate X. 
Peterrnann's Mittheilungen for January, 1892, contained 
an article upon the hight and geographical position of Mt. 
St. Elias in Alaska (vol. 38, pp. 19-22). The hight of 
18,099 ±100 feet, obtained by Prof. Russell's measurements 
of a base and angles in the vicinity of Icy bay in 1891, was 
stated to be the most reliable determination. The latitude 
was computed at 60° 17' 5l" and the longitude at 140° 55 
30, " from these observations in connection with those made 
by Dr. W. H. Dall near Port Mulgrave in 1874. It was 
claimed that these figures possessed a sufficient accuracy for 
all ordinary purposes; but, at the same time, it was intimated 
that the boundary survey between British Columbia and 
Alaska, in the course of execution by the U. S. Coast and 
Geodetic Survey, would probably soon furnish an entirely new- 
survey of the Mt. St. Elias region by more rigorous methods 
than the preceding ones. 
Since the publication of that article this survey has been 
made (in the summer of 1882) by Messrs. J. E. McGrath and 
J. H. Turner, the same officers who had been engaged during 
the two preceding years upon similar work on the Yukon 
and Porcupine rivers, and tin- necessary computations have 
been recently completed. A greater interest lias been mani- 
*From Petermann's Geogr. Mittheilungen, 1893, No. G. (Translated 
for the American Geologist. | 
