INVESTIGATIONS OF THE ALBATROSS. 45 



PERSONNEL. 



There have been ten changes among the officers during the year, as 

 follows : 



July 2, 1891. Assistant Paymaster John S. Carpenter reported for duty. 



July 9, 1891. Assistant Paymaster C. S. Williams was detached. 



July 10, 1891. Ensign H. B. Wilson reported for duty. 



Oct. 1, 1891. Ensign J. E. Shindel reported for duty. 



Oct. 7, 1891. Lieut, (junior grade) J. H. Holcombe was detached. 



Oct. 25, 1891. Ensign W. B. Fletcher reported for duty. 



Oct. 26, 1891. Passed-Assistant Surgeon F. W. F. Wieber reported for duty. 



Oct. 27, 1891. Passed-Assistant Surgeon Nelson H. Drake was detached. 



Oct. 31, 1891. Ensign William G. Miller reported for duty. 



Nov. 3, 1891. Ensign J. E. Shindel was detached. 



Following is a list of the officers attached to the Albatross June 30, 

 1892: Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. Navy, commanding; Lieut. 

 C. G. Calkins, U. S. Navy, executive and navigating officer; Ensign 

 H. B. Wilson, U. S. Navy; Ensign W. B. Fletcher, U. S. Navy; Ensign 

 E. A. Anderson, U. S. Navy; Ensign W. G.Miller, U. S. Navy; Passed 

 Assistant Surgeon F. W. F. Wieber, U. S. Navy; Passed Assistant Pay- 

 master J. S. Cari^enter, TJ. S. Navy; Assistant Engineer A. M. Hunt, 

 U. S. Navy. 



The civilian staff was as follows: Prof. B. W. Evermann, assistant 

 in charge of scientific department during the sealing investigation; 

 Charles H. Townsend, resident naturalist; A. B. Alexander, fishery 

 expert; N. B. Miller, assistant in scientific department; Harry Cliflbrd 

 Fassett, clerk to commanding officer. 



The crew list of June 30, 1891, limiting the number to 53 men, has 

 been in force during the year except when the vessel was engaged on 

 the cable survey under the Navy Department, the original number, 68, 

 having been allowed during the i)rogress of that work. With this 

 exception, civilians have been taken on temporarily to fill the vacan- 

 cies ; and while we have maintained the efficiency of the vessel in a 

 general way, the practice of making up a mixed crew of enlisted men 

 and civilian employes has been found very unsatisfactory, and it is to 

 be hoped that arrangements may soon be made for a suitable number 

 of men for the performance of the special work assigned the vessel. 



The Commission is indebted to Bear- Admiral John Irwin, command- 

 ant, and the officers of the navy- yard at Mare Island, California, for 

 their uniform courtesy to the officers of the Albatross personally, and 

 for the facilities of the yard, which have been freely granted to us at all 

 times for nuiking repairs and refitting tlie vessel. 



We are also indebted to Pay Inspector George A. Lyon, U. S. Navy, 

 in charge of the navy pay-office at San Francisco, for taking charge of 

 and forwarding our mails, a kindness wliich can only be fully appre- 

 ciated by those who spend half the year in Bering Sea. 



The Alaska Commercial Company have, as usual, rendered us mate- 

 rial aid in our northern work. 



