66 Report of the Brown-Harvard Expedition. 



Atlantic seaboard offer a tempting and untrodden ground for 

 topographical and geological investigation. The botanist, 

 the zoologist, and doubtless the scientific worker in many 

 other lines, may confidently expect many important discov- 

 eries to reward his labors. 



Some of our results have already been published. Mr. 

 Bigelow's report on Ornithology appears in Auk, 1902, Vol. 

 XXVII, pp. 24-31 ; and Dr. Daly's account of the geology of 

 the coast in the Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 

 at Han'ard College, igo2, Vol. XXXVIII, pp. 205-270. Each 

 of them has contributed a section to the present report, 

 briefly summarizing his results. Dr. Daly's report is accom- 

 panied by a number of illustrations, for the most part of a 

 more purely geological interest than those given herewith. 

 It embodies by far the most important results of our expe- 

 dition; and it emphasizes at greater length than I have done 

 the need of further exploration. 



Local names and their spelling, as given in this report, 

 cannot in all cases be taken as final and authoritative. There 

 is need of revision in this whole matter, and the final solution 

 must be left to the future. This is true particularly of the 

 names of the less prominent rivers, mountains, and localities 

 in the more northerly parts of the country. It is not unnatural 

 that a considerable variety in usage should have arisen. 

 Some names are due to the Newfoundland fishermen, of Eng- 

 lish descent. Some were given by German missionaries, and 

 these have been Anglicized to some extent. A large propor- 

 tion are of Eskimo origin, and their orthographic rendition is 

 due partially to English sources, more largely to the German 

 missionaries, whose spellings in some cases have been vari- 

 ously and doubtfully modified to suit the demands of English 



