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general plan of the expedition was decided upon. According to 

 this plan, Mr. Jochelson was to undertake the study of the Kor- 

 vak and Yukaghir ; Mr. Bogoras, that of the Chukchee and Es- 

 kimo. Through their former expeditions Mr. Jochelson was 

 already familiar with the Yakut and part of the Yukaghir, 

 while Mr. Bogoras knew the western Chukchee intimately. The 

 expedition was to begin in the year 1900. Mr. Bogoras was to 

 stay among the Chukchee and Eskimo until the summer of 

 1901, while Mr. Jochelson proposed to begin his studies on the 

 Sea of Okhotsk, and then to travel westward over the Stanovoi 

 Mountains to the Yukaghir, ■\\-hence he intended to return by 

 way of Yakutsk and Irkutsk in 1902. Later this plan was 

 slightly modified, in that Mr. Bogoras undertook the linguistic 

 study of the Koryak, whose speech is closely related to that of 

 the Chukchee. 



Messrs. Jochelson and Bogoras reached Xew York in March, 

 1900. A considerable part of the outfit of the expedition had 

 been purchased in Europe and shipped to Vladivostok direct. 

 The rest of the purchases were made in America, and in April 

 the party left San Francisco bound for Vladivostok, which was 

 reached ;\lay 16. In New York Mr. Norman G. Buxton was 

 added to the party. He was charged with the making of collec- 

 tions of zoological material. Mrs. Jochelson and Mrs. Bogoras, 

 who were to share the hardships of the journey with their hus- 

 bands, and to undertake part of the work of the expedition, had 

 gone to Vladivostok by way of the Trans-Siberian Railway. Be- 

 sides, Mr. Jochelson had engaged Mr. Alexander Axelrod of 

 Ziirich as a general assistant, particularly for carrying on the 

 geographical work incidental to the expedition. Mr. Jochelson 

 undertook the general leadership. 



At Vladivostok the expedition separated into two parties. 

 Mr. and ^Irs. Jochelson and Messrs. Axelrod and Biixton were to 

 make their headquarters at Gishiga; Mr. and Mrs. Bogoras, at 

 Mariinsky Post, at the mouth of the Anadyr River. The Bogoras 

 party left Vladivostok on June 14, on board the steamer " Baikal." 

 The departure of the Jochelson party was delayed until July 24, 

 because, owing to the political complications in China, the gov- 



