Women Collect Flora on Trip To Alaska

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 277, 23 November 1935, Page 13

Women Collect Flora on Trip To Alaska

VANCOUVER, B. C.—Completing ono of the most hazardous overland journeys undertaken by women in recent, years, Mrs J, Norman Henry and her daughter, Josephine, of Philadelphia, have reached Wrangell, Alaska, after travelling lUOO miics on horseback and afoot from Fort St. John. Mrs Henry’s plan was to collect rare flora for various American museums and she reports unusual success. Sko collected more than tiflO herbarium specimens of about 250 varieties. Sko has specimens of 40 mosses, lx. F. MeCuskor, topographer, travelled with the party to map the country. Leaving Fort St. Jehu in the Peace River area, the. Henry expedition headed for tho mountains by way of Halfway river and Laurier Pass. Going north, they crossed Prophet and Musqun Rivers and turned west at Racing River, where they crossed. Tho party raacked McDames Creek on September 22 and reached Telegraph Creek on October 2. “You are charged with throwing your mother-in-law . out, of tho window.” "I did it without thinking, sir.” "Yes, but don’t yon see how dangerous it might havo been for anyone passing by at tho time.”