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Clover, 1885. 

 Lieut. Commander Richardson Clover, U. S. N., in command of the 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey steamer Patterson, made surveys in south- 

 eastern Alaska in 1885. The field season was from May IT to Sep- 

 tember 16, 1885, during which surveys were made of Clarence strait 

 from Cape Chacon and Dall Head on the south to Narrow point and 

 Union bay on the north, also of the north shore of Dixon entrance 

 from Cape Chacon to Cape Muzon, except Cordova bay. Extracts 

 from his reports were published in Coast Survey report, 1886, pp. 

 80-81. Coast Survey chart 709, issued in 1886, shows the results of 

 his work. Some of it also appears on Coast Survey charts 706 and 707. 

 Coast Pilots, 1869, 1883, 1891. 

 Three Coast Pilots of Alaska have been prepared and published by 

 the Coast Survev. The first one, prepared by Assistant George 

 Davidson, was published in 1869. See Davidson for an account of 

 this. The second was prepared by Assistant William H. Dall, assisted 

 by the present writer, between 1875 and 1882 and was published by 

 the Coast Survey in 1883 under the title Pacific Coast Pilot, Alaska, 

 Part I. An Appendix to this Pilot, devoted to meteorology and 

 bibliography, was also prepared by Dall and Baker and published by 

 the Coast Survey in 1879, the edition being 250. The meteorological 

 tables, the diagrams, the bibliography, and the cartography were pre- 

 pared by Baker. They were edited by Dall, who wrote the discussions 

 and put the whole through the press. 



The new edition of this Pilot, called third edition, was published by 

 the Coast Survey in 1891. It was prepared by Lieut. Commander 

 H. E. Nichols, who was assigned to this work in 1888. In the summer 

 of that year Nichols visited Alaska and gathered notes for it. He was 

 at Kodiak and Unalaska and visited various points between, also 

 several of the Aleutian islands, the Pribilof islands, and points in 

 Bristol bav. (See Coast Survey Report, 1888, p. 77.) He also visited 

 Alexander archipelago in the autumn of 1888 on the same errand. 

 The manuscript of the new edition was completed before July, 1890, 

 and the volume was issued in 1891. The critical and historical notes 

 in the Pilot of 1883, or -Dall's Coast Pilot," has made it more useful 

 for this dictionary than the edition of 1891, or, as it is often called, 

 "Nichols' Coast Pilot." 



Additional Coast Pilot material has since been published by the 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey. Bulletins 37 and 38 of that survey wei^ 

 prepared by Lieut. Commander J. F. Moser and published in 1899. 

 These relate, the first to Alexander archipelago, the second to Prmee 

 William sound, Cook inlet, Kodiak, and westward to LTiialaska. 

 Bulletin 40, published in 1900, prepared by the Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey and revised by Lieutenant Jarvis, U. S. Revenue Cutter 

 Service, relates to Bering sea and the Arctic. 



