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later reported on the gold and coal resources of the territory. Since 

 that time topographic and geologic work has been activel}^ prosecuted 

 by the Geological Survey. The results are set forth in its annual 

 reports and in special reports as follows: 



Map of Alaska, with Descriptive Text. Prepared in Accordance with Public 

 Resolution No. 3, Fifty-fifth Congress, second session. 8°, Washington, 1899, 44 pp. 



]Maps and Descriptions of Routes of Exploration in Alaska in 1898. Prepared in 

 accordance with Public Resolution No. 25, Fifty-fifth Congress, third session. 8°, 

 Washington, 1899, 138 pp. 



Preliminary Report on the Cape Nome Gold Region, Alaska. By F. C. Schrader 

 and A. H. Brooks. 8°, W^ashington, 1900, 56 pp. 



Reconnaissances in the Cape Nome and Norton Bay Regions, Alaska, in 1900. By 

 Alfred H. Brooks, George B. Richardson, Arthur J. Collier, and AValter C. Menden- 

 hall. 8°, Washington, 1901, 222 pp. 



The Geology and Mineral Resources of a portion of the Copper River District, 



Alaska. By Frank Charles Schrader and Arthur Coe Spencer. 8°, Washington, 



1901, 94 pp. 



Gibson, 1854-55. 



Lieut. William Gibson, U. S. N. , commanded the U. S. schooner 

 Fenimore Cooj>er in 1854-55. This A'essel was one of those compos- 

 ing the North Pacific Exploring Expedition, "Lieut. -John Kodgers 

 commanding," sometimes known as the Ringgold and Rodgers expe- 

 dition. Gibson cruised through the Aleutian islands in the summer 

 of 1855, correcting the charts and surveying harbors here and there, 

 especially at Attu and Adak. No report of the work has been pub- 

 lished. The geogi-aphic results are shown on United States Hydro- 

 graphic charts 8 and 55 



Glass, 1881. 



Commander Henry Glass, U. S. N. , succeeded Captain Beardslec on 



the Sitka station in 1881, in command of the U. S. S. WachuKeft. The 



surveying done by Symonds and Hanus under Beardslee was continued 



under Glass and was published by the Coast Survey. See Coast Survey 



chart 726. 



Glenn, 1898-99. 



By direction of the Secretary of War, three military parties were 

 to be organized in the spring of 1898 for exploring the interior of 

 Alaska. The third, known as Expedition No. 3, was placed under the 

 command of Capt. Edwin F. Glenn, of the Twenty-fifth infantry, who 

 was instructed to establish a camp at Port Wells, Prince William sound, 

 about April 1, 1898, and explore northeastward for routes toward the 

 Copper and Sushitna rivers, and on about May 1 to go to Cook inlet 

 and explore northward to the Tanana and Yukon. With this party 

 went, as geologist, Mr. W. C. Mendenhall, of the United States Geo- 

 logical Survey. Glenn's report was published in 1899 ))y the Adjutant- 

 GeneraFs Office of the War Department, as (Bulletin) No. XXV, 

 Reports of Explorations in Alaska, and also in a quarto volume eman- 

 ating from the Senate Committee on Military Afiairs and entitled 



