XIII.— APPENDIX 



LITERATURE OF THE ELEPHANT POINT ICE-BEDS OF ESCHSCHOLTZ BAY 

 IN KOTZEBUE SOUND^ AND THOSE ON THE KOBUK RIVER 



1821. Vol. I, p. 219. 



Kotzebue's Description 



Beechey's Description 



1831. Vol. I. Part I. Narrative. 



Part II. Appendix by Buckland. 

 1839. Vol. II. Zoology of Beechey's Voyage. Geology by Buckland, with 

 map of Eschscholtz Bay colored by Belcher. 



Descriptions by Seem.\nn. Hooper, Dall, .-vnd others 



1852. Botany of Voyage of the " Herald." Seemann. 

 Vol. I. Plate I. Picture of Ice-cliffs. 



1853. Narrative of Voyage of the " Herald." Seemann. 

 Vol. II. Description of Ice-cliffs. 



1854. Zoology Voyage of the " Herald." Richardson. 

 Description of Pleistocene mammal remains. 



1881. Captain Hooper's description. July, 1880. 



i88r. W. H. Dall's description. September, 1880. 



1883. Muir's remarks on soil and vegetation. 



1884. Captain Hooper's observations in 1881. Nelson's photographs in 



Hooper's Kept. Nelson's MS. notes and drawings. 



1887. Healy's Report on Cruise of Corwin in 1885. Lieut. Cantwell's Narra- 

 tive of an Exploration of the Kowak (Kobuk) River. C. H. 

 Townsend's notes. 



1890. Lieut. Cantwell's letter to I. C. Russell. Lieut. Cantwell's Abstract in 

 Science. Lieut. Cantwell's Account in National Geographic 

 Magazine. 



I. THE ICE-BEDS ON ESCHSCHOLTZ BAY IN KOTZEBUE SOUND 



A discussion of the ice-beds of this so-called classic locaHty is re- 

 opened with some rehictance from the fact that the writer has never 

 viewed the phenomena there presented. However, such a gross 

 misconception of the significance of these ice-beds has become so 

 generally accepted by repeated publication in what otherwise appear 

 to be accepted authorities on the subjects they treat, that a thorough, 

 careful, review of the testimony to date seems to be in order. To 



