INDEX 



475 



Rainfall. See Precipitation 

 Rampart, Alaska, 150 

 Ranunculus, 364 

 Ranunculus sulphur eus, 351 

 Rasmussen, Knud, 178, 238; biogr. 



and bibliogr. note, 176; Tasks for 



future research in Eskimo culture, 



177-187 

 Rats, South Georgia, 366 

 Ray, P. H., 133 

 Razdrohlenie, no 

 Real men, 198 

 Red snow, 347, 348 

 Regan, C. T., 357, 361, 368, 369 

 Reid, H. F., 446 

 Reindeer, 71, 157, 191, 230; Alaska, 



228, 230; breeding, 193, 198, 203, 



231 ; meat production, 229, 230; tundra 



as pasture, study of, 149 

 Reindeer skin, 195 



Reiter, , 327 



Religion, native tribes, 197; polar 



Russians, 206 

 Reptiles, 334 

 Resources of the Arctic, 209; grazing, 



227; minerals, 224 

 Rey, J.-J., 302 

 Rhinoceros, North America, 68; Siberia, 



85 



Riiser-Larsen, Hjalmar, 424, 446, 455 



Rikli, Martin, 145 



Ringed penguin, 373 



Robertson Bay, 318 



Robeson Channel, 119, 121 



Roche moutonnee, 114 



Rock ice, 85 



Rocky Mountains, alpine plants, 151 



Rodgers, 453 



Roosevelt, 428, 434, 435, 436, 441; con- 

 struction, 429 



Rose, Mt., Nevada, 32 



Ross, Sir J. C, 56, 281, 378 



Ross Barrier, 264, 274, 290, 316, 320 



Ross Dependency, 248 



Ross Island, 290, 292, 317 



Ross Sea, 260, 276, 277, 317; barrier ice, 

 281 ; ice slopes east of, 260; region, 254 



Ross seal (singing seal), 376, 377 



Rotation of the earth, influence on air 

 circulation, 28 



Rouch, Jules, 274, 302; biogr. and 

 bibliogr. note, 300; meteorology. The, 

 of the American quadrant of the 

 Antarctic, 301-313 



Route Point, 374 



Royal Company's Islands, 257 



Riibel, E., 150 



Ruins, 167; excavations, 187; plant 

 remains, 143, 144 



Runners, vegetative growth by, 151 



Russell, H. N., 448 



Russeltvedt, Nils, 55 



Russia, claims in the Arctic, 241; 



treaties with Britain and the United 



States, 245-246 

 Russian language, 205 

 Russian Polar Expedition under Baron 



von Toll, 23, 128, 138 

 Russians, 198; Eurasian Arctic, 198, 199; 



Eurasian native culture and, 203; 



spiritual culture in polar regions, 205; 



trade in polar regions, 204; types in 



Eurasian Arctic, 201; uniformity of 



Arctic population, 200 



Sagastyr, 57 



St. Anna, 4, 5, 127 



St. Hilaire method of position finding, 446 



St. Lawrence, Gulf of, ice conditions, 

 440-441; seal hunting in, 430 



St. Louis, Mo., free air observations, 31, 

 32 



St. Michael, Alaska, 161, 162 



Saint Paul Island, 248, 356 



Salinity of ocean, 278 



Salo, 108 



Salvelinus, 157 



Samoilowitsch (Samoilovich), R. L., 75 



Samoyeds, 191, 194, 197 



Samuelsson, Carl, 145 



Saxifraga flagellar is, 151 



Saxifraga oppositifolia, 351 



Scandinavia, geology, 84 



Scharff, R. P., 160 



Schei, Per, 64 



Schenck, Heinrich, 363 



Schereschewsky (Shereshevski) , P., 298 



Schetelig, J., 320 



Schokalsky. See Shokalskii 



Schostakowitsch (Shostakovich), W., 39 



Schott, G., 274, 368 



Schroeder, Seaton, 453 



Sclater, P. L., 371 



Scoresby, William, Jr., 109, no, 121 



Scoresby Sound, 180; settlement on, 236 



Scotia, 280, 323; tides in the Antarctic, 

 279 



Scotia Bay, 350, 351 



Scott, R. F., 282, 320, 332; geological 

 contributions of his party, 321; mag- 

 netic observations of expeditions, 57 



Scott's Nunataks, 320 



Sea elephants, 257, 356, 377 



Sea ice, 91; accretional types, 106; 

 animal life under, 216; Antarctic, 

 340; classification, 91, 105, 106 

 (diagr.); dynamic types, 109; refer- 

 ences on terminology, 121; terms for 

 some phenomena, 117; varieties de- 

 fined, summary, 114 



