ADDENDA AND COR RI iENDA. 



Add to page 25,under the subject-head ot" the early occupation of the Seal Islands, the following: vi/. 



Captain Gustav Niebaum, an Alaskan citizen of the United State; by virtue of a special treaty stipulation 



w : ' Russia, at the time of the transfer of that territory, visited the rookeries of Saint Paul Isla id 1 i Deer. 



he returned to this island in April, 1868, and landed there one week prior to the arrival of Captai 1 



^ar., in the old "Peru". Mr.Niebaum was and is one of the original stock-holders and managers of the 



z. Commercial Compam . 



• -i page 48, the foot-note reads as though Veniaminov still lived: it is an error - he was alive when the 



no. wa"s first written in 1876. He has however, died since then, at Moscow, in April 1879. 



( >n page 8, under head of the discovery of the Isla ds, read "mouth of the Amoor river, ar.d the Okotsk 

 Sea , Also, for "Kreutsin ', read "Krenitsen". In the .lossary "Banio should be Banyah, and "Baroon . 

 should be Booroon. Also, on page 176, for "Phocians", read Phoenicians. 



There are several minor typographical errors and faulty transposition of text in the following pages ot 

 diis Memoir which are self-evident, and are self-corrected by the context. 



Smithsonian Institution. February 14 th. 1882. H.\..L. 



