, 1926-09-08
FOREIGN N~ATURALISTS
DINED AT CODY INN
(Margaret Hayden)

IL mas been said of Rome that il
you stand in one spot sooner or lat
er the great and small of the earth
VIII pass, n this is true of Cody
Just as our national governors par
ty had passed into history the great
OF the plant world met at the Bur-
lington-Cody Inn with two of Amer
lcas western opponents of plant
and animal conservation, Mr.. l.. II.
Douglas, Chief of Grazing of the
U. S. Forrest Service for the Roc
ky Mountain district, and J.. N.
Langworthy, Supervisor OF the Sho-
shone. the oldest National Forest in
the United States.
Chief among those of the inter
national party were the following.
some of the m of which.
according to Night Greeter Green
OF the Inn, were pictured instead
OF written upon that cosmopolitan
register: Prof. AL Bora, Chi. Rou-
mania; DR.. John Briquet, Geneva.
switzerland; DR.. and Miss Comte.
Domin, Charles University, Prague,
Czechoslovakia; DR.. f. Kotowski.
Agri. College Warsaw, Poland; Miss
Marie Lohnis, Holland; Count A.
Marcello. Agri. Inst. Rome, Venice.
Italy; Prof. and Mrs. N. Maximow.
Institute, Leningrad, Russia:
Mr.. Carleton Rea, Worchester Eng
mad; DR.. A. B. Rendle, British Mus
cum. London England; DR.. Edward
Rubel ,Geobotanical Institute, Eur
fch, Switzerland; DR.. Carl Skotts-
berg, Botanic Garden, ,Gothenberg
Sweden; Prof. van Slogteren, Ply
Psychologist for Bulb district, Lis
sic, Holland; Prof. w. Safer, Uni
Cracow, Cracow, Poland; Prof. "
Vouk, Uni. zagreb, Zagreb, Jugo-
slavia; Prof. T. w. Woodhead, tech.
College, Huddersfield, England,
Prof. X. Wize. Posen Poland; and
Prof. Richard Wettstein, Uni. vi
emma, Vienna, Austria.
DR.. George d. Fuller, of the Uni
versity of Chicago, was Interpreter
and conductor for the party, from
Ithaca, N. Y, where at Cornell
University an International Con-
gress of Plant Sciences was held
during middle august. There were.
according to DR.. Fuller, some ESQ
European delegates comprised of
foresters, botonists and h~orticultur-
ists-all people who have to do at
all with plants.
DR.. Fuller organized this west
ern trip to see Something of Nat
ional Parks, their interest being
both in the beauties of the Park
and in the vegation." They spent
five and one-half days in the yell
lowstone, and went from Cody to
the Rocky Mountain National Parks.
They expressed a rue measure of
appreciation for Yellowstone, which
thru the courtesy of Superintendent
Albright they were enabled to see
in company with the Park Naturlist
Prof. Conard, to whom they felt
greatly indebted for revealing to
them wonders they otherwise might
have missed.
While the official note was doubt
less paramount in these learned
minds of the plant world, they ex-
pressed immense interest in the
personnel and management of the
Park, commenting particularly up
on the high class of young college
people composing the drivers and
walters corps, and the popularity
of the pack rats" will verify go t.
the uttermost parts.
Count Allessandro Marcello.
agronomist. of Venice. Italy, an
enthusiastic member of the party.
said his activities were more of the
farm than the university, and vas
open in his loyalty to the great
Italion Premier Musso1ini, who is
Transforming young Italy with his
policy that all who eat must work.
The Count declared this visit to
the Buffalo Bill country to be the
fulfllment of a dream of his youth.
for the Buffalo Bill circus was
ever an event of his boyhood.