THE GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
other from the south—and abruptly ended the exploration for 1922. Cole¬ 
man’s account of his chagrin at getting so near Mt. Logan but finally being 
thwarted by storm and fog was well appreciated. 
Stimulated by the rich botanical discoveries of the tantalizingly brief 
and geographically inconclusive experience of 1922, a larger botanical enter¬ 
prise was arranged for the summer of 1923. The party of seven botanists, 
Carroll W. Dodge of Harvard University, Ludlow Griscom of the American 
Fig. 4—Mt. Logan from Mt. Pembroke. 
Museum of Natural History, Kenneth Mackenzie of the New York Bo¬ 
tanical Garden, Arthur Stanley Pease of the University of Illinois, Lyman B. 
Smith, a student in Harvard College, and the two writers, left Cap Chat for 
the Locked Camp on July 6, 1923, accompanied by Joseph Fortin, Israel 
Thibeault, and Leon Dugas. On the 7th a temporary camp was established 
below the outlet of Fernald Basin and opposite a steep ravine to the south 
designated Nettle Gully. The walls of Nettle Gully were too precipitous 
and slippery for ascent, but about the cold base at an altitude of scarcely 
400 meters (1300 feet) were found plants heretofore known only from the 
summit of Mt. Albert and later in the season a fern which had been known 
only along the Coast Ranges from Alaska to California. 
Reconnoitering expeditions, at first from the lower camp and later from 
a camp in Fernald Pass, showed that the real Mt. Logan is the summit 
with the “bare pointed rock,” the highest of this immediate group, 
slightly over 4100 feet, and lying two or three miles east of the head of Fer- 
