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station's work, particularly to sealini; operations, which were at their 

 height. A number of other members of Mr, Huston's party who 

 did not go with him to the Pribilofs on the Algonquin arrived on 

 the Mojave and were ashore at St. Paul for a brief period July 19. 



PERSONNEL. 



Superintendent A. H. Proctor, who had been detailed to the 

 Washington office for a part of the winter of 1921-22, returned to the 

 Pribilofs early in the spring by the Coast Guard cutter Tlaida^ ar- 

 riving at St. Paul Island April 25. Accompanying him were E. C. 

 Johnston, storekeej^er ; A. Christoffersen, by-products expert; Wil- 

 liam A. Carter and Theodore C. Vick, sealing assistants; Charles 

 Roof, Albert Harland, Joseph Movilla, Benjamin P. Gale, and 

 Andrew Pearson, carpenters; and two Chinese cooks. 



W. C. Allis, sealing assistant, left in May. Dr. Daniel L. Roland, 

 wdio had been employed as dentist on St. Paul Island through the 

 winter of 1921-22, went to St. George Island on duty in May and 

 in June left for the States. Henry Mygatt, assistant to agent, and 

 Edna C. Mygatt, school-teacher, left St. Paul Island for the States 

 also in June. 



William P. Zschorna, of the Fouke Fur Co., which dresses and 

 dyes the Government's sealskins, and 12 assistants were detailed to 

 St. Paul Island during the active sealing season to assist with the 

 washing and blubbering of sealskins. G. Donald Gibbins, vice 

 president of the Fouke Fur Co., was also at St. Paul Island for 

 a few weeks in June and July. 



In September the steamship Brookdale landed Lois L. Proctor and 

 Harold W. Lashier, school-teachers, and Paul E. INIoran, assistant 

 to agent, at St. Paul Islarni, and Dr. George S. Lesher, physician, 

 at St. George Island. Mr. Moran was later detailed to St. George 

 Island for duty during the winter of 1922-23. 



Leaving on the steamship Brookdale for the States in September 

 were Henry D. Aller, agent and caretaker, E. C. Johnston, store- 

 keeper, and two Chinese cooks, from St. Paul Island, and H. C. 

 Scudder, storekeeper, and Dr. Wm. M. Murphy, physician, from St. 

 George Island. A. Christoffersen left on the U. S. Coast Guard 

 Cutter llaida in October. Four of the five carpenters left at various 

 times during the season. Richard Culbortson was transferred from 

 the position of school-teacher to that of sealing assistant. In 

 December Dr. George B. Bowlby, who had tendered his resig- 

 nation, was relieved by Dr. Robert E. Davis, who arrived on the 

 Eider. oNfrs. Catherine Davis was appointed nurse. Dr. Bowlby 

 left St. Paul on the Eider. 



PURCHASE AND TRANSPORTATION OF SUPPLIES. 



The method of securing competitive bids for the general annual 

 supplies required for the Pribilof Islands through the use of printed 

 schedules, which has been followed uniformlv for a number of years, 

 was again employed in 1922. The supplies were shipped to the 

 islands by the commercial steamer Brookdale., the vessel leaving 

 Seattle August 21. The annual supplies for the bureau's vessel 

 Eider were shipped at the same time and were delivered at Unalaska. 



