A ROMANCE OF THE ROCKIES. 
1873 was the first year of the Hayden Geological 
Survey of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. While in the 
field somewhere hack among the ranges in 1874, Jackson, photogra¬ 
pher of the Survey, had photographed by his assistant, the 
group of five members of the Survey here shown - Nr. Hayden 
as the central figure, seated with Jackson on the right, Holmes 
at the left, with Chittenden, topographer back at left, and 
Ernest Ingersoll, back at right. We are shown there, not a 
very prepossessing lot, dressed in our rough mountain togs. 
Another view differs from this only in having Mr. Story B. Ladd, 
topographer on the Survey, substituted for Ingersoll. 
A very interesting feature of the episode is that, 
while Nr. Hayden died in 1887, the four of us - Jackson, Chitten¬ 
den, Ladd and Holmes, came together just 53 years later in Wash¬ 
ington and, during a visit of the party to the National Museum, 
were photographed together in the National Gallery and also on 
the south portico of the National Museum. It was a very in¬ 
teresting reunion. 
Today, January 30, 1930, I am, at the age of 83,' 
officiating as the Nirector of the National Gallery of Art. 
Jackson at 86 is in New York engaged by the Explorers 1 Club in 
writing the story of the opening up of the great west. Chittenden 
is,at 75, at home in East River, Connecticut, and Ladd is in 
Persia where he recently joined his daughter.. in. 
Persia where she is the wife of a native official. 
