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GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF ALASKA. 



[bull. 187. 



The i)riiicii)!il charts in tliis serios, with their dates of publication, 

 current niuuhers. and tlu> old l'a<'ilic ocean series numbers, are as 

 follows: 



Rynda i'arty, 1863. 



Russian naval officers on board the corvette Rynda in 1863 visited 

 Wrangell and the Stikine river and made surveys there, especiall}^ of 

 the Stikine. The surveyors w^ere Butirkin and Kadin. Prof. William 

 P. Blake, of New Haven, was also a member of the part}^ and pub- 

 lished an account of the work done and results obtained, in the Ameri- 

 can Journal of Science, New Haven, July, 1867, vol. 41:, pp. 96-101; 

 also in House of Representatives Ex. Doc. No. 177, part 2, Fortieth 

 Congress, second session. 



The Russian Hydrographic Department in 1867 published a chart 

 of the Stikine resulting- from this survey. 



Sarichef, 1790-1792. 



Lieut, (afterwards Vice-Aclmiral and Hydrographer) Gavrila Andree- 

 vich Sarichef, of the Russian nav}', made explorations in the Arctic in 

 1787, and later was an officer under Commodore Joseph Billings 

 during the latter's explorations of Bering sea and Alaska (1790-1792). 

 He appears to have been an excellent sailor and geographer. No 

 satisfactory account of his life or works has been found by the writer. 

 Sarichef published in Russian in 1802 an account of the Billings expe- 

 dition, in 2 volumes, accompanied l)y a folio atlas of 50 sheets. This 

 work the writer has never seen. In 1826 the Russian Hydrographic 

 Office published a large folio atlas, comprising 33 double page sheets, 

 of which 26 are charts and 7 are views, entitled Atlas of the Northern 

 Part of the Pacitic Ocean, Compiled in Sheets by the Imperial Navy 

 Department from the Latest Reports and Maps, 1826, under the Direc- 

 tion of Vice-A(hniral and Plydrographer Sarichef j^/'^t^. As indicated 

 in the title, this appears to be a collection of separate sheets issued 

 from time to time and first collected into an atlas in 1826. Sheet 3 

 contains corrections obtained in 1829. Several of Sarichef's surveys 



