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LETTER 



FROM 



THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, 



IN EESPONSE TO A RESOLUTION BY THE HOUSE, 



TRANSMITTING, 



With accompanying documents, the report of Capt. M. A. Healy, U. S. Revenue Marine, upon the 

 cruise of the Revenue Marine steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the year 1884. 



Treasury Department, February 28, 1885. 



Sir : In response to the resolution of tbe House of Representatives of the 17th instant, I have 

 the honor to transmit herewith a copy of the report of Capt. M. A. Healy, U. S. Revenue Marine, 

 upon the cruise of the Revenue Marine steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean, made in the year 1884, 

 and its accompanying documents and illustrations. 



This report contains the results of some original explorations and observations, made by the 

 ofQcers of the Corwin while prosecuting their regular duties in Alaska, and is deemed of consider- 

 able public importance. The explorations of the banks of the Kowak River are the first ever re- 

 corded, although the river has been known through information furnished by the natives for thirty 

 years. 



The following is the list of inclosures which constitute the report and its accompaniments : 



(1) General report of operations of vessel for the protection of the seal fisheries and sea- 



otter hunting-grounds, including report of Lieutenant Lutz. 



(2) Examination and description of Bogoslov Volcano, with illustrations. 



(3) Report of Lieutenant Cantwell of the survey of the Kowak River, accompanying 



his journal, with illustrations. 



(4) Notes on the Kowak River and Northern Alaska by Engineer McLenegan. 



(5) Notes on birds, by Engineer McLenegan, with illustrations. 



(6) Memoranda regarding the flora and fauna of the Kowak River. 



(7) Notes on fishes. 



(8) Notes on plants. 



(9) Notes on marine invertebrates. 

 (10) Notes on rocks. 

 Illustrations. 



I have respectfully to request that in printing the above-mentioned report provision be made 

 by Congress to furnish to the Treasury Department eighteen hundred (1,800) copies. 

 Very respectfully, 



H. MOCULLOCH, 



Secretary. 

 Hon. J. G. Carlisle, 



Speaker House of Rej^resentatives, 



Washington, D. C. 



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