Show NOTES ON OUR OWN The Independent has made arrangements with J. H. Paul of the university for a series of articles on aspects of nature in the Rocky Mountain desires to congratulate its readers upon this new feature of our beginning in issue-Articles somewhat similar from Paul's interesting and talented pen have heretofore appeared in several publications of this but series to appear the Independent will undoubtedly be superior to anything the doe-tor has previously given are informed a number of eminent specialists may be expected to contribute indirectly to this Goodwin and specialists respectively in ornithology and agronomy that birds and agriculture will be extensively as they speak before Paul's classes in at the We feel well pleased at our good fortune in securing this series of articles on topics that are new even to most of the oldest settlers of this The natural history of the west has never yet been The barest glimpses of it have occasionally appeared in but the has always been meager and rarely even as far as it has The result is that the west is practically unknown as even to i ts inhabit How many people know even the names of the hundreds of beautiful wild flowers of the the the mountain the How many know birds we have How many can name twenty out of the three Not one person in How many know the names of our splendid wonderful Almost Despite our vast mining even the rocks and minerals of the west are not well or generally known in no man knows either them or any of the departments of nature every contribution to this side of our knowledge of the west is sorely and in persuading Paul to aid by letting our readers know some of the results attained by his classes in nature work at the we think we have made an excellent and patriotic |