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were equipped. The work undertaken by Dr. Daly in par- 

 ticular was exceedingly careful and thorough, and his ob- 

 servations contain much that is new and valuable. Our re- 

 sults have not yet been completely worked out, so that it 

 is possible to give of some of them only an incomplete sum- 

 mary. Our very numerous oceanographic data have hardly 

 yet been touched, and the examinations of botanical speci- 

 mens, especially of the cryptogams, are not yet finished. 

 I shall give in a few brief paragraphs an outline of our re- 

 sults, so far as we know them, and then append the special 

 reports on botany, ornithology, and geology, the two latter 

 by Mr. Bigelow and Dr. Daly respectively. More extended 

 reports will be published later in appropriate places. 



(a) Meteorology. — Regular observations were made 

 of air-pressure, humidity, and temperature, of the state of 

 clouds, fog, and sunshine. The results of these observations 

 have already been given in Section II. Their scientific 

 value is unfortunately not large, because of some degree of 

 irregularity in time of observations, of inaccuracy in records, 

 and of inadequacy of apparatus. The regular observations 

 made by the missionaries at some of their stations are of 

 much greater value. These of ours can serve only to give 

 an approximately correct idea of the conditions under which 

 our voyage was made. 



(b) Geography. — We made thorough acquaintance 

 with the scenery, structure, topography, and life of probably 

 most of the typical sections of the Atlantic coast. Although 

 all the country we visited is well known to many individuals, 

 and we made no really new discoveries, yet much of it has 

 not found its way into scientific or popular description. We 

 ascended one mountain that probably has never before been 



