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THE FORESTER. 



November, 



Thomas H. Kearney, Jr., Assistant 

 Botanist, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Charles A. Keeler, Director of Museum, 

 California Academy of Sciences. 



Prof. Trevor Kincaid, Zoologist, Uni- 

 versity of Washington. 



Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Chief of the 

 Biological Survey, Washington, D. C. 



John Muir, Author and Student of 

 Glaciers. 



Dr. Charles Palache, Mineralogist, 

 Harvard University. 



Robert Ridgway, Curator of Birds, U. 

 S. National Museum. 



Prof. Wm. E. Ritter, President Cali- 

 fornia Academy of Sciences. 



De Alton Saunders, Botanist, South 

 Dakota Experiment Station. 



Dr. William Trelease, Director Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden. 



Artists. 



R. Swain Gifford, New York. 



Fred. S. Dellenbaugh, New York. 



Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Bird Artist, 

 Ithaca, N. Y. 



The eastern members of the party left 

 New York for Seattle by special train on 

 May 23, 1S99, meeting the other members 

 at Seattle. From this point the expedi- 



northward among the forested islands and 

 fiords of the "inside passages"; from 

 Sitka a northwesterly course was followed 

 passing the glaciers and snow-capped 

 peaks of the Fairweather and St. Elias 

 ranges; from Cook Inlet the course was 

 changed to the southwest and the Alaskian 

 Peninsula, Aleutian Islands, Kadiak and 

 the Shumagins were visited ; at Unalaska 

 the course was again northward into the 

 Bering Sea, stops being made at Bogoslof 

 Yolcano, Fur Seal Islands, the islands 

 of Hall, St. Matthew, and St. Lawrence. 

 Visits were also made at the Eskimo set- 

 tlements on both the Asiatic and American 

 coasts and then the homeward journey 

 began. 



Among the scientific results of this ex- 

 pedition is a greatly increased knowledge 

 of the fauna and flora of Alaska. Impor- 

 tant collections were made of the small 

 mammals and birds of the coast region, 

 many marine animals, seaweeds and the 

 largest collection of insects and land plants 

 ever brought from Alaska. The collec- 

 tion of photographs made numbers nearly 

 five thousand and is easily the best series 

 of pictures of this region. 



The facilities for exploration were of the 

 best ; the expedition had a ship with no 



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(ion s;iiledfor Alaska on May 30th, on the 

 steamship Geo. IK Elder, especially 

 chartered for the purpose, and was gone 

 just two months. 



During the two months' cruise a dis- 

 tance of 9,000 miles was covered and the 

 route taken was as follows: From Puget 

 Sound to Juneau and Lynn Canal, thence 



other business than to carry the party 

 wherever it cared to go. The equip- 

 ment also included naptha launches, 

 small boats and canoes, camping outfits, 

 stenographers, photographers. 



The two volumes composing this work 

 contain the narrative of the expedition and 

 ten articles of general interest. ' ' The Nar- 



