July 27 Middle Cr., 8000 ft. White Mts., Osmeralda Co., Nev. Silver City, Carson City, Minden, Wellington, Yerington, Schurz, Hawthorne, Mina, Cobdale, Orlmont. We stopped to eat at Yerington and camped about 1 mi. S of Hawthorne. Here I set out 5 traps and caught 1 Dipodomys & 1 Perognathus longimembris = 40% catch! A series of Thunder storms passed over during the mite & it rained most of the time. my sleeping bag not is not water proof so both of us became soaked. We repacked & arrived at the present locality the noon of the 26th. We are camped at the head of a narrow valley running generally C & W. Surrounding it on the N, S, E & W are high mts., those on the E are still covered with snow. The mts. are apparently made up of all sizes of granite - from huge outcrops to the fine grass. Pinus monophylla is the conifer on the lower slopes & Pinus flexilis is takes its place on the upper slopes. Much of the slopes was covered with shrubs and herbaceous flowers, with grass very scarce. Part of the shrubbery was made up of Sagebrush & Ephedra & ? Holodiscus discolor? A few prickly pear (I think) cacti are scattered over the slope. Mt. Mahogany is splendid in some places. The bottom of the canyon which was is