CONTENTS. 



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Action of the Senate of the United States 5 



Letter of the Secretary of the Interior to the President of the Senate 7 



Report of Sheldon Jackson, D. D., United States general agent of education 

 in Alaska, to the Commissioner of Education, on the introduction of domestic 



reindeer into Alaska 9 



Station 9 



Personnel 9 



Herders 10 



Apprentices 12 



Herd 13 



Reindeer transportation 16 



A purchase station in Siheria 18 



Itinerary 19 



APPENDIX. 



Letter of instructions to the superintendent of the herd 59 



Letter of Sheldon Jackson to William A. Kjellmann, February 24, 1894 65 



Letter of Sheldon Jackson to William A. Kjellmann, February 28, 1894 66 



Superintendent authorized to send a herd to Cape Prince of Wales 66 



Eskimo boys from Point Hope received 67 



Supplies needed by native herders 67 



Annual report of W. T. Lopp, superintendent, to Dr. Sheldon Jackson 68 



Letter of William A. Kjellmann to Sheldon Jackson, March 7, 1894 77 



Letter of William A. Kjellmann to Sheldon Jackson, March 9, 1894 78 



Telegrams concerning Lapps 78 



Letter of William A. Kjellmann to William Hamilton, March 30, 1894 79 



Letter of William A. Kjellmann to William Hamilton, April 2, 1894 79 



Letter of William A. Kjellmann to William Hamilton, April 9, 1894 80 



Letter of William A. Kjellmann to William Hamilton, May 16, 1894 80 



Letter of William A. Kjellmann to William Hamilton, May 22, 1894 80 



Letter of William A. Kjellmann to William Hamilton, May 29, 1894 81 



A herd presented the American Missionary Association 81 



Letter of William A. Kjellmann to Sheldon Jackson, September 3, 1894 82 



Letter of William A. Kjellmann to Sheldon Jackson, September 5, 1894 82 



Agreement to loan certain Eskimo a herd 84 



Award of Columbian World's Fair, Chicago, 1893 84 



Letter from Agricultural Department December 14, 1894 85 



Monograph on Caribou, by Charles Hallock, M. A., M. B. S 86 



Reindeer Breeding. Report of Dr. S. A. Lofstrom 93 



Monograph on Reindeer in Lapland, P. A. Lorvick 94 



Monograph on Reindeer in Lapland, Edward Norum 95 



Monograph on Reindeer in Lapland, George Hammer 96 



Reindeer introduced into Southern Norway 96 



Eskimo settlements around Bering Straits 97 



Estimated distances on northeast coast of Siheria 97 



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