4r> GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF ALASKA. [bull. 187. 



station f<n- iiictcorologic and magnetic observations and to maintain it 

 for throe j'cars. In this work the United States participated b}^ estab- 

 lishing two stiitions, one under Gen. Adolphus Washington Greely, 

 U. S. A., at Lad}' Franklin bay, the other under Capt. Patrick Henry 

 Ray, U. S. A., at Point Barrow, Alaska. With Ray, as observers, 

 assistants, etc., were, among others, John Murdoch, Middleton Smith, 

 Edward Perry Herendeen, and Sergie Smolianinof , a Russian, who is 

 called in the records A. C. Dark. Smolianinof died in AVashington 

 on February 11, 1901. 



The party sailed from San Francisco on July 18, 1881, on the 

 schooner Golden Fleece and reached Point Barrow on September 8. 

 Here a permanent station was established and maintained till August 

 27, 1883. On the 29th the party sailed away on the schooner Leo^ 

 reached San Francisco on October 7, and was disbanded on the 15th. 

 Between March 28 and April 7, 1883, Ra}' made a sledge journey into 

 the interior, and he published a map resulting from this exploration. 

 Ray's report with accompanjdng papers was published in 1885 as House 

 of Representatives Ex. Doc. No. 44, Forty-eighth Congress, second 

 session. 



Raymond, 1869. 



Capt. (now Lieut. Col.) Charles Walker Raymond, United States 

 Engineers, was in 1869 directed to go to Fort Yukon and determine 

 its geographic position. At that time there was doubt in some minds 

 whether Fort Yukon was in British or American territory. Raymond 

 went up the river in the summer of 1869, found that the fort was in 

 American territory, and made a report on the work assigned him, 

 entitled Report of a Reconnaissance of the Yukon River, Alaska 

 Territory, July to September, 1869. This was published in 1871 as 

 Senate Ex. Doc. No. 12, Forty-second Congress, first session. The 

 map of the river accompanying this report is the one cited in this 

 dictionary. The map was also issued separately. 



Reid, 1890-1892. 



Prof. Harry Fielding Reid, formerly of the Case School of Applied 

 Sciences at Cleveland, Ohio, and now of Johns Hopkins University, 

 visited Muir glacier in the summer of 1890 and made a study of it and 

 the surrounding region. He returned to it again in 1892 and made 

 further studies there. An account of the work of 1890, accompanied 

 by sketch maps, was published in the National Geographic Magazine 

 in 1892, Vol. IV, pp. 19-84. Later studies were published in 1896 in 

 the Sixteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 

 Part I, pp. 415-461. The map results are incorporated in map No. 

 3095 of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. 



