When Prof. T. H. Macbride went west last July he traveled directly to Mt. Rainier where he spent some six weeks gathering material for the botanical work at the University.

He spent September in Tacoma where he met many old students and friends. He addressed the annual "Iowa Picnic" while there--some five hundred Iowans were present. During his stay there he also addressed the Tacoma Teachers' Institute.

In October he went to Seattle with his family, where he has taken a house for the winter months at 3103 E. Cherry St. He does not spend much time in Seattle, however, merely making it his headquarters, for the greater part of his time is spent making excursions into the wild and unfrequented parts of the Puget Sound country.

He spent several weeks on Orcas Island, one of the group of San Juan islands above Bellingham. Here he obtained many boxes of material which has been sent to the University.

The first of December he returned from a trip in the Hood's Canal country at the foot of the Olympics. A week was spent at Chico on Port Washington Inlet.

He has made several trips to Bailey Peninsula on Lake Washington--the peninsula was recently purchased by the city of Seattle to be used as a park, but it has not been cleared at all and is in its native state, its great fir trees undisturbed.

He has sent more than 20 boxes of material back to the University.

He will probably stay in Seattle until spring, when he will go with Mrs. Macbride to California. He hopes then to spend some time in the Yosemite Valley.