The Cordova daily times., 1916-08-29
kATMA| CRA I ER REAL WORLD
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KODIAK, Aug. 26. - After a five weeks trip the National Geographic Society's expedition to Katmai volcano, under Professor F. Griggs, report that the great crater is one of the world g present day wonders, being miles | across and thousands of feet deep.
 Visits to the crater were made on July 19 and again on July 30, and the main crater examined for the first | time.
 Other volcanoes of the group have been represented in former reports as the Katmai crater. but they do not compare to the real crater which was visited this time.
 "The second visit was made on a clear day when the crater could be studied more in detail.'' said Professor Griggs. The ascent required many hours of hard climbing, ocer ash and pumice covered slopes, snow fields. glacier ice, mud and drainage ditches, but the party feels fully repaid for the strenuous task.
 "The walls of the crater are such that one can stand at the very rim and observe the sulphur patches I gtn satg sah suggests, as Walter Metroken, native Russian packer with the party, expres, sed 1t, "A hell Of a place One feature of contrast is the partial crater wall formation of glacier ice and the snow patches near the asteaming lake. A large part of the crater wall is com posed of igneous rock of various and brilliant colors.
 The crater, as also the simmering, sputtering, blue-green lake at the bot tom of it. must be measured in miles and the depth in thousands of feet. |" 1 Professor ROber F. Griggs, associ- ate professor of botany in the Univer- sity of Ohio, Columbus, visited the ash covered district in the vicinity of Kat mai in July, 1915, to study for the National GeOgra phic magazine the pro cess of revegetation, and is this year making his second visit for that maga- zine.
 Professor Griggs was accompanied last year by Bentley F. Fulton. ento- mologist of Geneva, N. Y. as photo grapher. and by Lucius C. Folsom, principal of Longwood school, KOdi- i ak He was assisted in the work this year also by Mir. Folsom and by Dono- van Church, student of Columbus, as 1 photographer. This party has had many interesting and difficult prob 1 lens to meet and experiences with l swift flowing Alaska streams and ] treacherOus mountain glaciers They have also made many discoveries and observations important to science complete records of which will appear in due time in the National Geographic magazine
 Professor Griggs is enthusiastically devoted to science, and emphasizes the scientific rather than the popular side of such exploration. He finds here absorbing studies in various branches of science other than bot any. afforded by conditions existing nowhere in the world, and is we'll equipped by study and experience as general scientist, having made trips for investigation to Guatemala and Porto Rico.
 The tremendous size of this crater, the great mass and variety of mater ial ejected from it. the almost total destruction of vegetable and animal life, together with the other volcanoes of the group, and other remarkable eruptive demonstrations discovered, explored and studied by the Griggs party, are fully worthy all the atten- tion the National Geographic associa- tion can give them.
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