Van Hise, Charles R., Page 5

• Main Author: Van Hise, Charles R.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1916
• Subjects: John Muir; biography; reminiscence; colleagues; contemporaries; archives; special collections; University of the Pacific; California; Holt-Atherton Special Collections; history; naturalist; Pacific; Atherton; glaciers; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmr-all/37; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmr-all/article/1038/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg

interested in all the sciences, and particularly in botany and geology. It was in his botanical studies about these Madison lakes that he first learned to wander. Upon leaving the University Muir says1: "From the top of a hill on the north side of Lake Mendota I gained a last wistful, lingering...