MY DEAR SIR: The following report upon the small collection of fossil plants made by you at Pinnacle pass, near Mount St. Elias, Alaska, and sent to this division for identification has been prepared by Professor F. H. Knowlton, who gave the collection a careful study during my absence in Florida. Previous to going away I had somewhat hastily examined the specimens and seen that they consisted chiefly of the genus _Salix_, some of them reminding me strongly of living species. I have no doubt that Professor Knowlton's more thorough comparisons can be relied upon with as much confidence as the nature of the collection will permit, and I also agree with his conclusions. "The collection consists of seven small hand specimens, upon which are impressed no less than seventeen more or less completely preserved dicotyledonous leaves. "These specimens at first sight seem to represent six or eight species, but after a careful study I think I am safe in reducing the number to four, as several of the impressions have been nearly obliterated by prolonged exposure and cannot be studied with much satisfaction. "The four determinable species belong, without much doubt, to the genus _Salix_. Number 1, of which there is but a single specimen, I have identified with _Salix californica_, Lesquereux, from the auriferous gravel deposits of the Sierra Nevada in California.[38] The finer nervation of the specimens from the auriferous gravels is not clearly shown in Lesquereux's figures, nor is it well preserved in the Mount St. Elias specimens; but the size, outline, and primary nervation are identical. "Number 2, of which there are six or eight specimens, may be compared with _Salix raeana_, Heer,[39] a species that was first described from Greenland and was later detected by Lesquereux in a collection from Cooks inlet, Alaska.[40] The Mount St. Elias specimens are not very much like the original figures of Heer, but are very similar, in outline at least, to this species as figured by Lesquereux.[41] They are also very similar to {200} some forms of the living _S. rostrata_, Richardson, with entire leaves. It is clearly a willow, but closer identification must remain for more complete material. "Number 3, represented by four or five specimens, is broadly elliptical in outline, and is also clearly a _Salix_. It is unlike any fossil form with which I am familiar, but is very similar to the living _S. nigricans_, For., var. _rotundifolia_, and to certain forms of _S. silesiaca_, Willd. The nervation is very distinctly preserved, and has all the characters of a willow leaf.