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An Afterglow FLAGSTAFF

Here is the Bulletin for you.

April 13. The first butterfly, a Pieris rapae, the imported tramp apparently, found back on the mesa (near the Amelanchier bush).

14 The first daisy, found near the cow-enclosure by the barn.

16 The wood betony flowers are multiplying rapidly. Evidenced by the number I now perceive between the B. M. and the garden and near the Slipher's west, between the road and the barn.

There is still a patch of snow on the N. E. slopes of Arrowhead Hill (where the first arrowhead was found by W. L. L. the great arrowhead discoverer). Of course, there are the snow fields N. of the B. M. The snow is beginning to show patchy on the open flanks of the mountain, where we all lunched once.

Up to today it was one continuous sheet there. In spite of this arctic description it is all like summer, 65° F., warm and balmy—around the Observatory.

I flushed a jack-rabbit yesterday on my way after the cows, just to the west of the bin in the "Forest Reserve." It was good to see his great ears and great action. 79