Exploration JVork of the Instihttion 467 



18. Survey of Indian reservation in Texas, under Captain 

 R. B. Marcy. 



19. Exploration of the Upper Missouri and Yellowstone, 

 under Lieutenant G. K. Warren. 



20. Construction of a wagon-road from Fort Leavenworth 

 to Bridger's Pass, under Lieutenant F. T. Bryan. 



E. NAVAL EXPEDITIONS UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. 



21. The United States naval astronomical expedition in 

 Chile, under Lieutenant J. M. Gilliss. 



22. The Japan expedition, under Commodore M. C. Perry. 



23. Exploration of the China seas and Behring's Straits, 

 first under command of Captain C. Ringgold, then under 

 Captain J. Rodgers. 



24. Exploration of the La Plata and its tributaries, under 

 Captain T. J. Page. 



25. Exploration of the west coast of Greenland and 

 Smith's Sound, under Dr. E. K. Kane.^ 



The participation of the Institution in explorations con- 

 ducted by the government continued actively for many years, 

 though the character of these explorations as a whole has 

 varied in the course of time. The surveys for railroad 

 routes and wagon-roads across the public lands of the West 

 form the first important series of explorations in which the 

 Institution was interested. Next after these interest centered 

 in the extensive geological surveys of the same region. 

 After these came the explorations of the sea-coast, rivers, and 

 lakes of the United States by the Fish Commission, and in- 

 vestigations of the North American Indians by the Bureau 

 of Ethnology. 



In the case of the geological surveys, although the work 

 done was more strictly scientific in character than that of 



1 " Smithsonian Report," 1856, page 6i. 



