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inadequately charted. Almost all previous scientific expe- 

 ditions have traversed the coast with such rapidity and 

 touched at so few points that a large proportion of it has been 

 very insufficiently examined, and its physiographic features 

 and geological structure still lack accurate description. In- 

 terior exploration has been confined to comparatively few 

 routes, and in particular the entire northern part of the 

 peninsula, between Ungava Bay and the Atlantic, where 

 exist probably the most elevated points of land on the eastern 

 side of the continent, has never had its heights measured and 

 other features determined. Mr. Adams's description of 

 these opportunities for further research ; his excellent photo- 

 graphs of the scenery; his representations of the game possi- 

 bilities of the region; and a general desire to visit an un- 

 known country and to lead an active, healthy, outdoor life 

 for a short time, finally induced several other men to join him 

 in an attempt to unveil some of the mysteries that still remain 

 unsolved in connection with the Labrador peninsula. 



Tlie party, as finally organized, was composed of six 

 members. Edmund B. Delabarre, Ph. D., Professor of 

 Psychology in Brown University, was nominally leader of 

 the expedition ; in the absence of material sufficient to occupy 

 him largely in his own specialty, he made a collection of 

 plants and devoted his time for the most part to such exami- 

 nation of them as could be accomplished by one who is 

 entirely an amateur in botanical work. Reginald A. Daly, 

 Ph. D., Instructor in Geology in Harvard University, made a 

 thorough and efficient geologicail and physiographical exami- 

 nation of the coast ; prosecuted systematic studies of the tem- 

 perature, salinity, and currents of the ocean, and sounded and 

 charted Nachvak Bay. The other four men were all under- 



