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GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF ALASKA. 



[BULL. 187. 



18yi.'-l«95 Moore (W. I.). 



1894 U. S. S. Concord. 



1895 Becker. 



1895-1898 Moore (E. K.). 



1896 Spurr and Goodrich. 



1897-1898 INIoser. 



1898-1900 Barnard. 



1898-1900 Bruoky. 



1898 Eldridge and Muldrow, 



1898-1899 (ilenn. 



1898-1900 Mendenhall. 



1898-1899 Peters and Brooks. 



1898-1900 Schrader. 



1898 Spnrr and Post. 



1899 Harriman Alaska Expedi- 

 tion. 



1899 Rohn. 



1900 Davidson and Blakeslee. 



British Admiralty. 



Prospectors and Miners. 



Russians. 



Vasilief. 



AUTHORITIES IN ALPHA BETIC ORDER. 



The following is an alphabetic list of the principal authorities used 

 in the making- of this dictionary. Concerning- each one a brief state- 

 ment i.s made as to the reasons foi- accepting him as an authority. 

 References are also given to such publications, by himself or by others, 

 concerning his work, as have been used. 



Abercrombie, 1884, 1898-99. 



In the spring of 1898, by direction of the Secretary of War, three 

 military expeditions were organized for exploring the interior of 

 Alaska. The second of these expeditions was under the command of 

 Capt. William R. Abercrombie, U. S. A., who had in 1884 ascended the 

 Copper river to latitude 60° 41' and afterwards visited Port Valdes, 

 in Prince William sound. Abercrombie was directed to organize his 

 party at Valdes and then explore the valley of the Copper river and 

 its tributaries and the country northward to the Tanana. Mr. F. C. 

 Schrader, of the United States Geological Survey, was attached to his 

 party as geologist. Schrader's report was published in 1900 in the 

 Twentieth Annual Report of the Geological Survey, Part VII, pp. 

 341-423. Abercrombie's report was published in July, 1899, in War 

 Department, Adjutant General's Office, No. XXV, Report of Explor- 

 ations in Alaska, pp. 295-351. It was also published in 1900 in a 4° 

 volume entitled Compilation of Narratives of Explorations in Alaska, 

 Washington, Government Printing Office, 1900, a work which seems 

 to have come from the Senate Committee on Military Affairs. 



Ciiptain Al)ercrombie continued the work of exploration in 1899 

 undei- instructions, inter alia, to construct a military road from Valdes 

 to Fort Egbert on the Yukon. Mr. Oscar Rohn accompanied the 

 party as topographer and geologist. For Abercrombie's report see 

 the above-cited compilation, pp. 755-766; also separately printed, with 

 numerous illustrations, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1900. 

 Rohn's report was published in 1900 in the Twenty-first Annual Report 

 of the Geological Survey, Part II, pp. 393-440. 



