Edmonton May 11 - Left Edmonton about 7.30 and came out about 5 miles To Ed Deans place. May 12 Left Deans place about 9. am and came to Sturgeon River where we camped. and made up specimens. First party days Travel mainly between cultivated fields, willows and poplars the aliy common trees. A few spriners in the valley of the Sturgeon. Of other Trees, poplars (both species) and willows predominate. May 13. Left our camp near the Sturgeon and followed the road leading up The Sturgeon Valley. To Lily Lake, 9 miles from the Sturgeon. The lake is about 1/2 miles long and less than 1/2 a mile wide and occupies a broad shallow valley. 1/2 mile of its length was covered with ice. Near here I first saw Balsamian flowers. After leaving him we passed over a series of low ridges. The depressions, neither side being occupied by spruce