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de Fonte et autres navigateurs . . . dans les mers septentrionales, 

 avec leur explication. Paris, 1753. [Accompanied by a map on which 

 the discoveries of Bering and Chirikov, whose tracks are shown, are 

 correlated with the alleged discoveries along the northwestern coast 

 of North America of the Spanish navigator Bartolome de Fuentes 

 in 1640. A facsimile of this map accompanies A. W. Greely's paper, 

 listed on p. 367, as PI. 21, Nail. Geogr. Magaz., Vol. 3, 1891.] 

 Isnard, Albert. Joseph-Nicolas Delisle: Sa biographie et sa collection 

 de cartes geographiques a. la Bibliotheque Nationale. Bull. Section de 

 Geogr., Comite des Travaux Hist, et Sci., Vol. 30, 1915, pp. 34-164. 

 Minist. de 1' Instruction Publ. et des Beaux- Arts, Paris. [Of the 

 collection of manuscripts and maps brought back to Paris by Delisle 

 from his twenty-one years' stay in St. Petersburg (1726-1747) one 

 part was deposited in the archives of the Depot des Cartes et Plans 

 de la Marine. Reference is made to these above, on p. 358. The 

 remaining part was deposited in the Bibliotheque Royale. These, long 

 missing, have recently been found. They are now in the Section 

 Geographique of the Bibliotheque Nationale and are described and 

 listed in the present paper. The collection contains first-hand copies 

 of maps of Bering's route on his first expedition from Tobolsk to 

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Omont, H. Lettres de J.-N. Delisle au Comte de Maurepas et a 1'Abbe 

 Bignon sur ses travaux geographiques en Russie (1726-1730). Bull. 

 Section de Geogr., Comite des Travaux Hist, et Sci., Vol. 32, 1917, pp. 

 130-164. Minist. de l'lnstruction Publ. et des Beaux-Arts, Paris. 

 [Seven letters, of which five from Delisle to the then Minister of Ma- 

 rine and to the librarian of the Bibliotheque Royale, informing them 

 of his activities during the first years of his sojourn in Russia. Letters 

 III and VII, on pp. 141-147 and 160-162, deal at first hand with 

 Bering's first expedition and the state of geographical knowledge of 

 the North Pacific prior to that expedition, including von Strahlen- 

 berg's studies (see above, p. 356). "C'est du capitaine Beerings 

 luy-meme, qui est icy de retour depuis quelques mois, que j'ay appris 

 ce que je viens d'en marquer a Votre Grandeur" (Letter VII, dated 

 June 25, 1730).] 



Froidevaux, Henri. Les etudes geographiques de Joseph-Nicolas 

 Delisle sur l'Empire Russe. La Geographic Vol. 33, 1920, pp. 219-228. 

 Paris. [An abstract of the papers by Isnard and Omont listed above.] 



Buache, Philippe. Considerations geographiques et physiques sur les 

 nouvelles decouvertes au nord de la grande mer appelee vulgairement 

 la Mer du Sud, avec des cartes qui y sont relatives. Paris, 1753. 

 [Buache, who was "Premier Geographe du Roy" and in close touch 

 with J. N. Delisle, in this memoir discusses the geography of the 

 North Pacific mainly as established by Bering's expeditions. The 



