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Allen, 1885. 



Lieut, (now Major) Honry Tureman Allen, IT. S. A., who was gradu- 

 ated from "\^'e.st Point in 1882, made a journey of exploration through 

 central Alaska in 1885. Leaving Nuchek on March 20, he ascended the 

 Copper river, crossed to and descended the Tanana to its mouth, thence 

 traveled north to the Ko^^ukuk, ascended it some distance, and then 

 descended to its mouth and arrived at St. Michael August 29, whence 

 he returned to San Francisco. His report, with accompanying maps, 

 was published in 1887 as Senate Ex. Doc. No. 125, Fort^^-ninth Con- 

 gress, second session. 



Archimandritof, 1848-1850. 



Towards the close of the Russian occupation of Alaska, Captain 

 Archimandritof commanded one of its vessels in the colonies. He 

 made surveys in Kenai peninsula and around Kodiak in about 1850, but 

 published nothing. It is probable that some of his results were used 

 in Tebenkof's atlas. Copies of his manuscript maps were in use by 

 the Russian skippers and others at the time of the purchase, and some 

 fragments reached the Coast Survey. A survey by him of Graham 

 harbor (Port Graham), in Cook inlet, was published in the Coast 

 Survey atlas of Harbor Charts, 1869. 



Baker, 1873-1880. 



Marcus Baker, in the employ of the Coast Survey, svirveyed in the 

 Aleutian islands and along the Alaskan coast from Dixon entrance to 

 Point Belcher, Arctic ocean, in the seasons of 1873, 1871, and 1880 in 

 the party of Mr. William H. Dall. In May, 1880, through the courtesy 

 of Captain Beardslee, he made a boat journe}^ from Sitka to Chilkat 

 and return. The very few names given during that journey are 

 recorded in the Coast Pilot, 1883. 



Barnard, 1898-1900. 



Mr. Edward Chester Barnard, topographer of the United States 

 Geological Survey, surve3^ed the Fortymile district, in eastern Alaska, 

 in the summer of 1898, and also made surveys in Seward peninsula in 

 the summer of 1900. The Fortymile atlas sheet was published in 

 April, 1899, in a Congressional document (Public Resolution No. 25, 

 Fifty -lifth Congress, second session), entitled Maps and Descriptions 

 of Routes of Exploration in Alaska in 1898. The results of the 

 Seward peninsula surveys will appear in special reports of the Geo- 

 logical Survey. 



Beardslee, 1879-80. 



Capt. (now Rear Admiral) Lester Anthony Beardslee, U. S. N., was 

 in 1879-80 stationed in southeast Alaska in command of the U. S. S. 

 Jamestown. Among his officers was Lieut. Frederick M. Symonds and 



