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H. G. Ogden and Marcus Baker. The work was divided between 

 them. ]Slr. Ogden took charge of the carding of names for the xVlex- 

 ander archipelago, using for this purpose the charts and Coast Pilots 

 published by the Coast Survey and the British Admiralt}- charts. 

 Names in the remainder of the Territory were carded b}^ the present 

 writer and were collected from various American, English, and Rus- 

 sian maps and books. 



In September, 1893, the committee reported that about 1,300 names 

 had been entered upon cards — 2.100 for the Alexander archipelago 

 and 1,900 for the rest of Alaska. 



The plan and scope of the dictionary were then discussed and the 

 method of publication was considered. Little further progress, how- 

 ever, was made at that time. The work done by members of the 

 Board and its committee is and has always been, with a single excep- 

 tion, incidental to other work. Other duties being pressing the work 

 flagged and made slow progress. From time to time the writer 

 worked upon it and wrote out the entries from A to F. Then work 

 upon it came to a complete standstill. So it remained till June. 1900, 

 when the Director of the Geological Survey, who needed the results 

 for official purposes, instructed the writer to complete the dictionary, 

 and for the first time work upon it ceased to be incidental. 



On taking up the work in June, 1900, the first task was to card the 

 new names which had resulted from exploration and survey since that 

 work ceased seven j^ears before. It is estimated that the number of 

 new names thus catalogued exceeded 2,000. On completing these the 

 work of writing the dictionary entries was begun. At first the dic- 

 tionary order was followed, but it was shortly abandoned for the 

 geographic order. Spreading out the mother maps of an}- given 

 region, the cards bearing the names found thereon were taken from 

 their trays and the dictionary entries were written upon them in pres- 

 ence of the maps. Many of the early entries were rewritten. When 

 these were finished the cards were restored to their alphabetic order 

 and then the entries were copied on the typewriter for the printer's 

 use, chiefly bv Mr. Wilson S. Wiley. This done, Mr. Wile}' went 

 over this tj'pewritten copy and copied the rejected and alternative 

 names, which were afterwards arranged and inserted in their proper 

 places as cross references. The typewritten cop}' was not compared 

 with the original, but as a check the proof was compared with the 

 original entries on the cards. These cards contain thousands of refer- 

 ences to the literature, which references are not printed. The cards, 

 however, are preserved and will doubtless prove of service hereafter. 



