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in the N Y. Bot. Garden. duplicates
in Nat. Herb., Washington. A report on the collections is
found in Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 2 (1901), where the flowering plants were
identified by BRITTON & RYDBERG, the ferns by UNDERWOOD, the Sphagna
by WARNSDORFF, the mosses by WILLIAMS himself and the hepatics by A. HORNE.
WILLIAMS also published a paper: »Additional Mosses of the
upper Yukon» (Bryologist 6, 1903). The following places were
visited: March 23, 1898 Dyea; May 20. 1899 Lake Lindemann; May 30-July
30 Dawson and vicinity; July 7 mouth of Klondike R.; Aug. 25 Bennett City.
1898. Tyrrell,
Joseph Burr, mining engeneer, made a small collection along »Dalton
Trail» July 3-7 at Aishihik Lake; Aug. 18-19 at Forty Mile Creek
and at Dawson. The specimens are kept in Ottawa. A list of the plants
was published by JOHN MACOUN (Ottawa Nat. 13, 1899).
1899-1901.
Weirick, S. T., Dr., collected a few plants, now in Nat.
Herb., Washington, at Fort Gibbon.
1898-1900. Georgeson,
Charles Christian, director of the Agricult. Exp. Station at
Sitka, collected about 200 specimens at Sitka and Kodiak in 1898 and at
Rampart, Fort Yukon and Eagle in July 1900. The collection is in
Nat. Herb., Washington.
1899. Tarleton,
John Berry, collected about 270 specimens at upper Yukon R.
They are preserved in Nat. Herb., Washington. The phanerogams were
published by BRITTON & RYDBERG together with WlLLIAM's plants in Bull.
N. Y. Bot. Gard. 2 (1901). TARLETON traversed Chilkoot Pass
about May 1, worked at Five Finger Rapids July 5, at Fort Selkirk July
20 (where he met GORMAN), fifty miles above Stewart R. July 27, and at
Dawson. TARLETON wrote a popular account of his journey under
the title »A botanist's trip on the Upper Yukon» (Alaskan
Magaz. and Canad. Yukoner vol. 1. 1900).
1899. Ruddock,
George T., obtained a collection near Teller. The specimens
that were kept in the Calif. Acad. of Sc. were probably destroyed in the
San Francisco earthquake. Some of them are mentioned by EASTWOOD
in Bot. Gaz. 33 (1902) p. 299.
1899. Rhodes,
H. M., Newhall, P. M., and Giacomini,
A. L., of the U. S. Coast and Geod. Surv. Steamer Patterson,
collected at Norton Sound some specimens, now in Univ, of Calif., NEWHALL
also collected at »Paslatiak R.» (=Pastolik R.?) in the Yukon
Delta.
1899. Setchell,
William Albert, Jepson, Willis Linn, Lawson,
A. A., and Hunt, L. E., of the University of
California, collected June to August at Unalaska and Beaver Inlet, Unalaska
I., later at Unga I.,