VARIATIONS OF GLACIERS 38 1 



to the part facing the water ; the sides have been steadily reced- 



insf. 



Mount Rainier is a volcanic cone, 4400 meters high, in the 

 state of Washington, bearing on its steep slopes about a dozen 

 glaciers from five to ten kilometers long. Information has 

 reached me concerning the Carbon glacier on the northern, the 

 Willis on the northwestern, and the Nisqually on the southern 

 face of the mountain. All three of these glaciers are steadily 

 receding. 



Mr. Otto J. Klotz made a photographic study of the end of 

 Baird glacier, Alaska (long. 132° 50' N., lat. 57° 8' W.) in 

 1894.^ This will be the beginning of a careful record of the 

 variations of this glacier. 



In conclusion, the very incomplete data indicate that, with 

 few exceptions, the glaciers of the United States are shrinking at 

 the present time. 



REPORT ON THE GLACIERS OF THE UNITED STATES FOR I 896.3 



Cook' s Met.— K glacier on the Kenai Peninsular has receded 

 about 250 feet between 1880 and 1895.^ Mr. Dall writes that he 

 thinks all the glaciers on the Pacific coast which he has person- 

 ally visited are retreating. 



Chilcat Pass. — The glaciers on the southern side of this pass 

 are receding. (/. E. Spur.) 



Glacier Bay region. — Mr. John Muir reports that he found 

 Rendu and Carroll glaciers, at the head of the bay, from three to 

 seven kilometers (two to four miles) shorter in 1896 than they 

 were in 1879. Muir glacier also continues to recede. 



' Studies of Muir Glacier, Alaska, by Harry Fielding Reid, Nat. Geog. Mag. 

 1892, Vol. IV, pp. 33-42; and Glacier Bay and its Glaciers, i6th Ann. Rep. U.S. Geol 

 Sur., pp. 440-442. 



- This Journal, 1895, Vol. Ill, pp. 512-518. I recommend this article ta observers 

 as an example of how much of permanent value can be done in a short time by the 

 photographic method. 



3 A synopsis of this report will appear in the Second Annual Report of the Inter- 

 national Committee. 



4W. H. Dall, Bull. Am. Soc, 1896, XXXVII, 15, 



