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The new commissioner of agriculture

1885; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: ns-5; Issue: 119 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1126/science.ns-5.119.394

1095-9203

Aug. F. Harvey,

Agricultural Economics and Policy

A n r o ~111: WONDERBUL acllievenlellts of modern explorers shonlcl be placed on record the history of the successfi~l expetlition of Capt.Willard Glazier in search of the ultimate source of the Mississippi River.This daring explorer, at the heat1 of a large ancl well-equipped party, penetratecl the untrodden wilderness of central AIinnesota, ant1 reacllcd Lake Itasca, ~ollicli has so long been regarded as the source of tlie great rirer.Xot content with this achievement, he pltlngcd boldly into the forest, and sacceeded, after great exertions, in forcing liis way three miles farther sonthward, where lie came to a secontl lalie, also drained by the Mississippi, arid forming, as Ile states, its uttermost head.To this lake lie gives his own name, that the faille of liis achievement may be perpctnnted.I t is perhaps unfortunate, thztt, as this wliole regio~l was sectionized by tlle general lancl-office several years previously, lilies 1ln.riiig been run at e v e q mile, a prior claiin to this great discorery may arise.I 1 1 any case, Ilo\~ever, the names of Capt.Glazier and John Pilenix as explorers will go down to posterity side by side.