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Thomas, 1887-88. 



Lieut. Commander Charles M. Thomas, IT. S. X., succeeded Lieut. 

 Conmiander Snow in command of the Coast and Geodetic Survey 

 steamer Patterson on April 30, 1887, and remained in command till 

 relieved by Manstield on April 1, 1889. During the season of 1887, 

 which began at Port Simpson on May 21 and ended there on October 

 13, his party surveyed and mapped in whole or in part Frederick 

 sound, Duncan canal, Brown cove. Thomas bay, Farragut bay, and 

 Portage bay. In the following season, which began on April 27, 1888, 

 he made surveys till June 2>3 in the vicinity of Taku inlet, in this time 

 mapping Taku harbor, Limestone inlet. Port Snettisham, and Oliver 

 inlet. Between July 3 and October 11, 1888, Thomas made surveys 

 asked for b}- the Department of State in and about Portland canal. 

 For an account of his work see Coast and Geodetic Survey Reports, 

 1888, "pp. 73-76; 1889, pp. 78-82, and Coast Survey charts 704, 733, 

 and 8227. 



TiKHiMENIEF, 1861-1863. 



p. Tikhmenief has been called the historian of the Russian American 

 Company. He published in Russian a work in two volumes, the tirst 

 dated 1861, the second 1863, entitled Historical Review of the Russian 

 American Company'. This is a useful work, compiled from original 

 sources, and gives information on Alaskan matters not to be found 



elsewhere. 



ToPHAM, 1888. 



Mr. Harold W. Topham and his brother Edwin, of London, with 

 George Broka of Brussels, and William Williams of New York, left 

 Sitka on a little schooner on July 3, 1888, and went to ]\Iount St. 

 Elias for the purj)ose of climbing it. They reached an altitude of 

 11,460 feet and then turned back. Topham read an account of this 

 trip before the Royal Geographical Society on April 8, 1889. This 

 account, with a map, was published in the Society's proceedings in 

 July, 1889, Vol. XI, pp. 424-435. See also the National Geographic 

 Magazine, 1890, Vol. HI, pp. 73-74. 



TcRXER, 1889-1891. 



Mr. John Henry Turner, Assistant in the Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey, was- engaged on the Alaskan boundary' survev from June, 

 1889, to July, 1891. In the summer of 1889, with Mr. McGratli. he 

 ascended the Yukon river to Fort Yukon, where the party divided. 

 On August 12 Turner began his journey up the Porcupine river to 

 the boundary. On the 19th he landed at the site of an abandoned 

 camp near the one hundred and forty-tirst meridian, and there began 

 the building of quarters for officers and men and the erection of an 

 observatory. This camp was named Camp Colonna. Longitude was 



