50 GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF ALASKA. [bull. 187. 



ScnuADER, 1898-1900. 



]\lr. Frank Charles Schrader, geologist of the United States Geolog- 

 ical Survey, was attached to a military exploring expedition under the 

 command of Capt. W. R. Abercrombie, known as Military Expedition 

 No. 2. Avhich in the summer of 1898 made explorations from Valdes 

 northeastward to and along the Copper river. For an account of this 

 see Twentieth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 

 Part VII, pp. 341-423. 



In 1899 Schrader, in charge of a party, made -imilar explorations 

 along the Chandlar and Koyukuk rivers. His results are published in 

 the Twenty-first Annual Report of the United States Geological 

 Survey, Part II, pp. 441-486. 



Again in 1900, in the latter part of the summer and in the fall, 

 Schrader, assisted by Mr. Arthur Coe Spencer, geologist, and T. G. 

 Gerdine and D. C. Witherspoon, topographers, investigated the 

 geology and mineral resources of the Copper River district. The 

 results are now in proof and will soon appear as a special public^ation 

 of the United States Geological Survey. 



ScHWATKA, 1883-1886. 



Lieut. Frederick Schwatka, U. S. A., made a military reconnaissance 

 in 1883 along the Yukon river from source to mouth on a raft. He 

 made an official report on this military reconnaissance in Alaska, in 

 1883, which was printed in 1885 as Senate Ex. Doc. No. 2, Forty-eighth 

 Congress, second session. A fuller account of the same journey, in 

 popular form, was published by Cassel & Co., in 1885, under the title 

 Along Alaska's Great River. This has an index. He made a second 

 trip to Alaska in 1886 under the auspices of the New York Times and 

 explored in the St. Elias region. Schwatka was born on Septeml)er 29, 

 1849, in Galena, 111., and died in Portland, Oreg., on November 2, 1892. 



Shishmaref, 1816-1821. 



Capt. -Lieut. Glieb Semenovich Shishmaref accompanied Kotzebue 

 on his voyage to Alaska and round the world in 1815-1818, and in 1817 

 made survey's in Kotzebue sound and on the east and south coast of 

 St. Lawrence island. 



In 1821 he again returned to the colonies, this time in command of 

 the ship BhujonwmieTenmie (Good Intent), and in company with Vasilief 

 on the Othrietie (Discovery). Sailing from Cronstadt on July 3, 1819, 

 and I'ounding Cape Horn, he arrived at Unalaska on June 4, 1820. 

 With him went Dr. Stein and asti'onomer Tarkanof. Afterwards he 

 cruised through the Aleutian islands, to Amchitka, Semisopochnoi, 

 Gareloi, and Bogoslof. He also entered the Arctic, went as far as 

 Ic}^ cape, visited St. Lawrence bay, and completed in 1821 the survey 



