Theasury Department, 

 Document No. 429. 

 Secretary — R. M. 



L E T T E E 



THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. 



IN EESPONSE TO 



A resolution of the House of Representatives transmitting the observations and notes made during the 

 cruise of the revenue-cutter Corwin in 1881. 



Maech 3, 1883. — Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. 



Treasury Department, March 3, 1883. 

 Sib: I have the honor to acknowledge the reoeipt of resolution of the House, dated March 3, 

 1883, requesting that the Secretary of the Treasury furnish, as soon as convenient, to the Speaker 

 of the House copies of documents in the possession of the Treasury Department containing obser- 

 vationb on glaciation, birds, natural history, and the medical notes made upon cruises of revenue- 

 cutters in the year 1881. 



In reply, I transmit herewith the observatiou.s on glaciation in the Arctic Ocean and the Alaska 

 region, made by Mr. John Muir; notes upon the birds and natural history of Bering Sea and the 

 northwestern region, by Mr. E. W. -Nelson; and medical notes and anthropological notes relating 

 to the natives of Alaska and the northwestern Arctic region, made by Dr. Irving 0. Rosse. 

 All these notes were made upon the cruise of the revenue-cutter Corwin in 1881. 

 Very respectfully, 



H. P. FRENCH, 



Acting Secretary. 

 Hon. J. W. K^iFEB, 



Speaker of the House of Representatives. 



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