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Delabarre of Brown University, the scheme was successfully carried out, 
and a most profitable and enjoyable. summer spent by those who par- 
ticipated in the expedition. The party also included Messrs. H. B. 
Bigelow, L. B. MeCornick, and H. W. Palmer, undergraduates of Har- 
vard. I was asked to accompany them and record any geological obser- 
vations that might be possible on a trip of the kind proposed. Rather 
more was accomplished in this direction than was hoped for at the 
outset, and the results are believed to be of sufficient interest to war- 
rant some degree of detail in their recital. The following pages are 
intended to afford a brief treatment of the more important problems 
met with during the summer ; some of these have found solution, others 
will, it is hoped, be more clearly defined for future visitors to a little 
known shore. 
The equipment of the expedition was quite modest but sufficed for 
most needs, excepting that for rapidity of travel. The vessel selected 
for the journey was the “ Brave,” a forty-ton fishing schooner, just re- 
built and specially fitted up to be the summer home of the party and 
of the four seamen employed to take the larger share of the navigation 
required, Thoroughly staunch and clean, and commanded by a skip- 
per of unusually wide experience and close knowledge of the thousand 
dangers of this coast, the craft was found to be both safe and comfor- 
table. The instrumental outfit included five aneroid barometers ; two 
ordinary thermometers ; a corrected thermometer lent by the Superin- 
tendent of the United States Coast Survey, from whom there were also 
obtained two sets of salinometers and a hydrometer cup; four Negretti- 
Zambra deep-sea thermometers, and five hundred fathoms of piano-wire, 
lent by Mr. Alexander Agassiz ; asextant, lent by Brown University ; and 
a prismatic compass. The tools in trade of a botanist, an ornithologist, 
and a geologist, were likewise represented on board. Professor Dela- 
barre worked assiduously on the flowering plants encountered on the 
route, and collected freely from the cryptogamic vegetation which is so 
striking a feature of the coast. Mr. Bigelow’s former experience enabled 
him to seize quickly the peculiar ornithological features of the coast, and 
he has added several species new to its list of birds.1 The writer, 
though chiefly occupied with the general geology ashore, spent some 
time in a limited study of the hydrography of the Labrador Current. 
Before proceeding to the discussion of results, it will be well to give a 
brief account of the itinerary. By so doing, the conditions under which 
the observations were carried on may be most easily understood. 
1 Cf. Auk, 1902, xxvii. pp. 24-31. 
