Dr. Stejneger, head curator of biology in the U. S. National 

 Museum, came to this country from Norway in 1881. The following 

 years he went on a natural history expedition to Bering Island 

 and Kamchatka for the U. S. National Museum. He revisited the 

 Commander Islands on several occasions, in 1895 to study the fur 

 seal question, in 1 896-1 897 as a member of the U. S. Fur Seal Com- 

 mission, and in 1922 for the Department of Commerce. As a result 

 of these visits he has contributed a number of papers on the biota 

 of the North Pacific region to the publications of the U. S. National 

 Museum. He is also the author of "Eine Umsegelung der Berings- 

 Insel, Herbst 1882" {Deutsche Geogr. Blatter, Vol. 8, 1885); "The 

 Russian Fur Seal Islands" {Bull. U. S. Fish Commission, Vol. 16, 

 1890); "The Asiatic Fur-Seal Islands and Fur-Seal Industry" (in 

 D. S. Jordan's "The Fur Seals and Fur-Seal Islands of the North 

 Pacific Ocean," Vol. 4, Washington, 1898), and translator of "Stel- 

 ler's Journal of the Sea Voyage from Kamchatka to America and 

 Return on the Second Expedition 1741-1742," constituting Vol. 2 

 of "Berings Voyages" {Amer. Geogr. Soc. Research Series No. 2, 

 New York, 1925). As a zoologist Dr. Stejneger has specialized in 

 the taxonomy and geographic distribution of the vertebrates, 

 chiefly birds and reptiles, on which he has published more than 300 

 titles, among them the greater portion of the bird volume of the 

 "Standard Natural History," a volume on the birds of Kamchatka, 

 one on the herpetology of Japan, etc. 



