28 GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF ALASKA. [bull. 187. 



In 1884 Mr. Dull res io-ned from the Coast Survey and entered the 

 Geological Survey, with Avhich oro-anization he has been connected 

 ever since. In the summer of 1895 in company with Mr. G. F. Becker 

 he revisited Alaska for the purpose of studying and reporting on its 

 coal resources. The cruise made was coastwise from Sitka to Unalaska. 

 The results are published in the Seventeenth Annual Report of the 

 United £tates Geological Survey, 1896, Part 1, pp. 763-908. 



Davidson, 1867-1869. 



George Davidson, assistant in the Coast Survey, accompanied by 

 Alonzo Tyler Mosman, G. Farquhar, and Stehman Forney, made a 

 cruise in the waters of Russian America just prior to its purchase and 

 change of name to Alaska in 1867. They sailed on the revenue cutter 

 Lincoht from Victoria on July 29 and returned there October 27, 1867, 

 having visited and made observations at Sitka, Chilkat, Kodiak, and 

 Unalaska. Davidson wrote a voluminous report on this work, includ- 

 ing a description of the southeast coast of Alaska from Dixon entrance 

 to Cook inlet. This report was published in Coast Survey Report, 1867, 

 Appendix 18, pp. 187-329. This description was afterwards revised 

 and published ])y the Coast Surve}^ under the title Coast Pilot of 

 Alaska (First Part) from Southern Boundary to Cook's Inlet. 



Charts were made of Sitka, of St. Paul harbor, Kadiak, and of Cap- 

 tains bay, Unalaska, and published by the Coast Survey. These are in 

 a small atlas issued by the Coast Survey in 1869 and entitled Harbor 

 Charts of Alaska. Davidson visited Alaska again in 1869 and observed 

 the total solar eclipse of August 7 of that year at Kohklux on the 

 Chilkat river. On his journey thither and back he did a little recon- 

 naissarce surveying in Alexander archipelago. For an account of this 

 see Coast Survey Report, 1869, pp. 177-181. 



Davidson and Blakeslee, 1900. 



Messrs. J. M. Davidson and B. D. Blakeslee, civil engineers and 

 United States deputy surveyors, issued in 1900 a map of the Nome 

 gold region containing many names not previous!}^ published, most of 

 them doubtless given by the prospectors. This map is folded and in 

 a cover bearing the title Map of the Nome Peninsula showing new 

 Gold Fi(dds of Cape Nome, Golovin Bay and Cape York, Alaska. 

 Compiled from Actual Surveys and Explorations on the Ground by 

 J. M. Davidson and B. D. Blakeslee, Civil Engineers and United 

 States Deputy Surveyors, Nome, Alaska, 1900. The map, which is 

 colored, was printed by the Mutual Label and Lithographic Company 

 of San Frp,ncisco, Cal. 



Dease and Simpson, 1837. 



Peter Warren Dease and Thomas Simpson, factors of the Hudson 

 Bay Company in the summer of 1837 made an exploring journey 



