Women Collect Flora on Trip To Alaska

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 283, 3 December 1935, Page 10

Women Collect Flora on Trip To Alaska

VANCOUVER, 13. C. —Completing one of the most hazardous overland journeys undertaken by women in recent years, Airs J. Norman Henry and her daughter, Josephine, of Philadelphia, have reached Wrangell, Alaska, after travelling IUUO miles un horseback and afoot from Fort bt. John. Airs Henry’s plan was to collect rare flora for various American museums and she reports unusual success. She collected more than 000 herbarium specimens of about 250 varieties, bhe has specimens of 40 mosses. K. F. Al.cUusker, topographer, travelled with the party to map the country. Leaving Fort St. John in the Peace River area, the Henry expedition headed for the mountains by way of Halfway river and Laurier Pass. Going north, they crossed Prophet and Alusqua Rivers and turned west at Racing River, where they crossed. The party reached Alcßames Creek on September 22 and reached Telegraph Creek on October 2. “You are charged ■with throwing your mother-in-law out of the window.” ’ “I did it without thinking, sir.” “Yes, but don’t you see how dangerous it might have been for anyone passing by at the time.”