<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>Thoughts while passing a winter day (brrr -- 83 degrees here today), in reference to the small portion of the 1872 Bechler map of the "Fourth Group" of the Lower Geyser Basin. My query is (and the reason for sending this directly to Whittlesey, too): Do capitalized "names" on a map like this constitute real names, or are they taken as being merely descriptive?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Part of my reason for asking this is that there are many cases in Whittlesey's _Nomenclature_ where something is listed as a name because of its appearance on a map (such as by Peale or Weed or etc.).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>On Bechler's map we have:</DIV> <DIV>Old Geyser and Large Hot Spring. Large Hot Spring clearly is Old Bath Lake (=Tank Spring = The Tank = Ranger Pool). Old Geyser would be one of those spring on the slope beyond The Tank (the name that I, ahem, personally prefer). If I'd been making the map and if these were _not_ intended as names, then I would have written them smaller and lower case.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>On the map also are:</DIV> <DIV>4 Sulphur Springs and 5 Minute Spouter. Are these numerical designations or are they names? Do those mean "four sulphur springs" (purely descriptive), "four Sulphur Springs" (semi-name), or "4. Sulphur Springs" (map designation number for a named cluster of springs)? similarly, does the "5" of "5 Minute Spouter" translate as "Five Minute Spouter" or, again, is it a map designation (though in this case even just "Minute Spouter" comes across to me as a name outright).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Whatever. Since I don't have it, I wonder what other "names" are on Bechler's map. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>(I still like Great Sky Blue Hot Spring, too.)</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>