PREFACE 



Many like to read of travels in new or curious places 

 who are little interested in scientific results. So it has 

 seemed wise to relegate these to a separate part. For the 

 rest, this is a journal, for the greater part put historically, 

 where the various sides of the life of our island fall into 

 the place where we knew them as part of any day. 



To Colonel H. W. Feilden — Arctic Naturalist and 

 unfailing friend to every beginner in the same field — 

 belongs my first thought of going to Kolguev. I feel that 

 I can never be grateful enouoh to him for lessons out of 

 his great experience and wide research, so generously 

 and untiringly given. 



I want also sincerely to thank many other kind friends 

 and distinguished men for that unorudoed advice and 

 help which is so real an encouragement. 



Especially my thanks are due to Clements R. Markham, 

 C.B., F.R.S., Professor Alfred Newton, F.R.S., Mr. P. L. 

 Sclater, F.R.S., Dr. Albert Giinther, F.R.S., Dr. Edward 

 B. Tylor, F.R.S., Mr. William Carruthers, F.R.S., Dr. 

 Bowdler Sharpe, Mr. Lamont, Mr. Raymond Tucker, 

 Mr. Howard Saunders, Mr. Henry Seebohm, Mr. 

 Harvie-Brown, and Mr. Edmund Meade- Waldo. 



