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Aug. 19 at Cape Prince of Wales and
Tin City; Aug. 24-26 at Nome; Aug. 27 Golovin, Rocky Pt; Aug. 29 Unalaklet;
Aug. 31 Elim; Sept. 3 Sevoonga; Sept. 4 Gambell; Sept. 7 Teller; Sept.
11 Nome; Sept. 17 Unalaska; Sept. 19 Ivanof Bay); 1939 796 numbers at
Hyder and (together with GASSER) at Wiseman. ANDERSON’s botanical
collection is probably the largest ever brought together by one person
in Alaska.
1914-1922. Walker,
Ernest Pilsbury, inspector in the Bureau of Fisheries, and his
wife Esther Schefstad Walker, obtained a large collection
at numerous places in S.E. Alaska and the Prince William Sd region.
The collections are in the Rocky Mt Herb. of Wyoming with duplicates in
Nat. Herb., Washington, and several other herbaria. They were classified
by Dr. AVEN NELSON. The following places were visited: July
1914 Prince William Sd; May 19, 1915 Wrangell; June 7 Hoonah; June 11
Admiralty I.; June 22 Heceta I.; July 2 Avan Creek; July 3 Kuiu I.; July
14 Glacier Bay and Yakobi I.; July 30 Le Conte Bay; Aug. 3 Tongass vill.;
Aug. 20 Vixen Inlet; Aug. 22 Bell I. Sulphur Springs; Aug. 24 Boca de
Quadra, Dear Mt; April 1917 Egg Hbr on Coronation I.; June 6, 1922 Pearl
I.; June 26 Middleton I.
1915-1927. Haley,
George, schoolteacher on St. George I. and later on St. Paul
I., collected in 1915-1918 together with his wife Cora Giles Haley,
on Pribilof Is. Part of these collections were given to Stanford
Univ. In 1918-1920, and in 1925 and 1926 HALEY again collected on St.
Paul I. and St. George I. In 1925 he also obtained a collection
at False Pass and Unalaska, in 1926 June 4 at Excursion Inlet (near Glacier
Bay), June 6 at Kodiak and July 7 at Sanak. In 1927 he visited Nunivak
I. on July 3 and St. Matthew I. on July 8. The specimens collected
after 1918 are chiefly in Calif. Acad.
1916-1935. Cooper,
William Skinner, of the University of Minnesota. during four
expeditions for the purpose of studying the plant succession of virgin
soil and the glacial features made a good collection of plants in Alaska,
chiefly in the Glacier Bay area. These expeditions were undertaken
in the years 1916, 1921, 1929 and 1935. Specimens in Univ. of Minnesota,
duplicates in Nat. Herb., Washington. COOPER published the following
papers concerning his investigations: The recent ecological history of
Glacier Bay, Alaska (Ecology 4, 1923); The battle of ice and forest (Amer.
Forest and Forest life 30, 1924); A third expedition to Glacier Bay, Alaska
(Ecology 12, 1931); The seed-plants and ferns of the Glacier Bay National
Monument. Alaska (Bull. Torr. Club 57. 1931); The layering habits in