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Meares and Tipping, 1786-87. 



Capt. John Meares, in the Nootka, sailed from Bengal, India, on 

 March 2, 1786, on a trading voyage to Malacca and northwest America. 

 About* the same time sailed also Lieut. William Tipping,- R. N., in 

 command of the Sect Otter. The two vessels were owned by the same 

 company of merchants and were to cooperate. Meares made the land 

 at Atka, in the Aleutian islands, on August 1, 1786, anchored there, 

 and met both Russians and natives. He then cruised eastward through 

 the Aleutian islands to Unalaska, the Shumagins, Kodiak, Cook inlet, 

 and Prince William sound, where the Sea Otter had preceded him and 

 departed with a cargo of peltries. Meares thereupon decided to winter 

 in Prince William sound. He spent a very uncomfortable winter, 

 many of his crew d3dng of scurvy. On May 17, 1787, he was visited 

 by Capt. George Dixon, another English trader, just arrived in Prince 

 William sound. Of Meares ship's company 23 had died during the 

 winter, and on June 21, 1787, he sailed away with his company reduced 

 to 21. Ten days later he was at Sitka and sailed thence for the 

 Hawaiian islands and thence to China, arriving on October 20, 1787. 

 Nothing was ever heard of Lieutenant Tipping in the 8ea Otter after 

 he left Prince William sound. 



For an account of these voyages see Meares (John), Voyages in 

 1788-1789 from China to Northwest America, 1^, London, 1790, 

 pp. i-xl. 



Mendenhall, 1898-1900. 



Mr. Walter Curran Mendenhall, geologist of the United States 

 Geological Survey, was attached to a military exploring expedition 

 under the command of Capt. E. F. Glenn, known as Military Expedi- 

 tion No. 3, which in the summer of 1898 explored east of Cook inlet 

 and thence northeastward up the Matanuska and across to the Tanana 

 river. Mendenhall's results are published in the Twentieth Annual 

 Report of the Geological Survey, Part VII, pp. 265-310. 



In 1900 Mendenhall was attached, as geologist, to a party in charge 

 of W. J. Peters, working in the eastern part of Seward peninsula. 

 His report is now in proof and will soon appear as a special publication 

 of the United States Geological Survey. 



Moore (E. K.), 1895-1898. 



Lieut. Commander Edwin K. Moore, U. S. N., succeeded W. I. Moore 

 in command of the Coast and Geodetic Survey steamer Patterson on 

 March 15, 1895, and remained in command until recalled in the spring 

 of 1898 to participate in the Spanish war. Thus he had three survey- 

 ing seasons in Alaska, aU in Alexander archipelago; the first from 

 Mav 13 to October, 1895, spent chiefly in Chatham and Peril straits; 

 the"^second from August 8 to October 6, 1896, in Peril strait; and the 



