22 GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF ALASKA. [bull. 187. 



Mustor Gustavus C. Hanus, both of whom had served in the Coast 

 JSurvov and wore enthusiastic surveyors. These officers and their 

 associiitos utilized their oppoi'tunity to increase our imperfect knowl- 

 edcre of th(^ Alexander archipelag-o. They surveyed Sitka harbor and 

 various coves and harbors and })rought back information as to Glacier 

 bay, wiiich. while not absolutely the first, was the first to attract much 

 notice. 'I'hcir map of Sitka was published l)y the Coast Survey. 

 ]Most of the geographic information, except that, is contained in 

 Beardslee's report on ailairs in Alaska, which was published in 1882 as 

 Senate Ex. Doc. No. 71. Forty-seventh Congress, first session. This 

 contains several maps, including reprints of United States Hydro- 

 gi-aphic OtHce charts 88:^ and 883. 



Becker, 1895. 



Mr. George Ferdinand Becker, geologist of the United States 

 Geological Survey, accompanied by Mr. Chester Wells Purington, 

 visited Alaska in the summer of 1895 for the purpose of examining 

 and reporting on its gold resources. Their examination was, in 

 accordance with instructions, confined to the coast, and embraced 

 points from Sitka westward to Unalaska. It included several locali- 

 ties in Alexander archipelago, about Kodiak and Cook inlet, and along 

 Alaska peninsula, and the trip ended with a visit to Bogoslof. 



Becker's report on this work is published in the Eighteenth Annual 

 Report of the Geological Survey, Part III, pp. 1-86. 



Beechey, 1826-27. 



In 1824: the British Government determined to send a ship to Bering 

 strait to cooperate with Franklin and Parry in a search for the North- 

 west Passage. Capt. Frederick William Beeche}^, R. N., was on Jan- 

 uary 12, 1825, selected for the task and placed in command of H. M. S. 

 Blossom. On May 11, 1825, he received his instructions, and eight 

 days later. May 19, set sail from Spithead, sailed round Cape Horn, 

 and on June 28, 1826, reached Petropavlovsk. Thence he sailed to 

 Kotzebue sound, arriving on July 22. Sailing northward he made 

 surveys on the Arctic coast as far as Point Barrow and then returned 

 to Kotzebue sound. On October 13, he quit the sound and, passing 

 Unimak strait, reached San Francisco on November 7, where he stayed 

 till the end of the year and then proceeded to the Hawaiian islands, 

 touching en route at Monterey. He. arrived at Honolulu on January 

 26, 1827. Thence he went to China, and on July 3, was l)ack in 

 Petropavlovsk. 



Quitting the harbor on July 18, he returned to Kotzebue sound, 

 arriving on August 5. The rest of the season was spent in surveys 

 a))Out Seward peii insula, till October 6, 1827, when he took his final 

 departure and, rounding Cape Horn, retui ned to England in September, 

 1828. 



