HEMORANTOM FOR GENERAL BLISS. 
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The Mount Malindang region was explored and napped by a Bmall 
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party under Captain James P. Jervey, Corps of Engineers, with Major Edgar 
A. Mearns, Surgeon, The party was also accompanied by Mr. Wallace I* 
Hutohinson, Philippine Bureau of Forestry. The great Malindang range, 
reaching An elevation of 9000 feet, was explored on seven mapped routes between 
May 9th and June 12t , 1906. A monument -was placed upon the highest peak, 
known as Grand Malindang; and a map and report embodying photographs and to¬ 
pographical drawings, tkxioaeauitxiKxjaiKcixRgx klinometer sightings, altitudes 
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of peaks, barometrio and thermometrio readings is being prepared. Major Mearns 
and Mr. Hutohinson oollected 1000 good Botanical specimens. The highest parts 
(3000 to 9000 feet) were found to be forested Vith large oakA and evergreen 
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treesof two kinds, resembling cedar apd hemlook. The raspberry was represented 
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by 5 speoies. A wild grape was discovered. A violet and other temporate tone 
plants were oollected. The highest 1500 feet of Grand Malindang is mantled 
with moss covering not only the earth but the trunks and limbs 0 :" the trees, 
which latter have an average height of 40 feet at the summit. From the moss 
sufficient water could be wrung out for drinking; but a spring and a stream be¬ 
ginning at the apex supply good vrateri 
Major Mearns, for the U. S. Natidnal Museum, made a large general collection 
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in soology, including 240 birds and 80 mammals, with new genera and epecies. 
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