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Report of the International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska in response to the resolution of the [U.S.] House of representatives of December 11, 1884.
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- Book
- Conference/Event
- Government document
- Conference Name:
- International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska (1881-1883)
- Series:
- Arctic series of publications issued in connection with the Signal Service, U.S. Army ; no. 1.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I.
- U.S. Signal office. Arctic series of publications ; no. 1
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Barrow (Alaska)--Description and travel.
- Barrow (Alaska).
- Alaska--Description and travel.
- Alaska.
- United States--Discovery and exploration.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([1], 695 p.) : ill., fold. map, plans.
- Other Title:
- Report of the International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : G.P.O., 1885.
- Contents:
- pt. I. Orders and instructions
- pt. II. Narrative / by Lieut. P.H. Ray
- pt. III. Ethnographic sketch of the natives of Point Barrow / by Lieut. P.H. Ray: 1. Sketch. 2. Approximate census of Eskimos at the Cape Smythe village. 3. Vocabulary collected among the Eskimos of Point Barrow and Cape Smythe. 4. Catalogue of ethnological specimens collected by the Point Barrow expedition, prepared by John Murdoch
- pt. IV. Natural history / by John Murdoch: 1. Mammals. 2. Birds. 3. Fishes. 4. Insects / [by C.V. Riley] 5. Marine invertebrates (exclusive of mollusks) 6. Report on the mollusks / by W.H. Dall. 7. Collecting localities and dredging stations. 8. Plants / by Prof. Asa Gray. Appendix
- pt. V. Meteorology (including Aurora)
- pt. VI. Terrestrial magnetism / [by C.A. Schott, U.S Coast and Geodetic Survey]
- pt. VII. Tides
- pt. VIII. Miscellaneous observations.
- Notes:
- Issued also as House ex. doc. 44, 48th Cong., 2d sess. (v. 23, serial no. 2298).
- Report of Lieut. P.H. Ray, commanding the expedition, to the chief of the United States Signal office.
- Includes index.
- Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress.
- OCLC:
- 647098049
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