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UNITED STATES BOAED ON GEOGRAPHIC NAMES. 



MEMBERS AND OFFICERS, DECEMBER, igoi. 



Henry Gannett, Cliairman, 



Unitod States Geological Survey. 

 MARCrs Bakeu, Sccreturi/, 



United States Geological Survey. 

 Andrew H. Ai>len, 



Department of State. 

 Capt. H. T. Brian, 



Government Printing OfTice. 

 John Hyde, 



Department of Agriculture. 

 A. B. Johnson, 



Treasury Department. 

 Harry King, 



General Land Office. 



Maj. J. L. LusK, U. S. Engineers, 



War Department. 

 Prof. O. T. Mason, 



Smithsonian Institution. 

 H. G. 0(;den, 



Coast and Geodetic Survey. 

 Lieut. Commander W. H. H. Souther- 

 land, U. S. N., 



Navy Department. 

 A. Von Haake, 



Post-Office Department. 



ADOPTION OF DICTIONARY. 



At a special meeting of the United States Board on Geographic 

 Names held July 29, 1901, the following resolution was adopted: 



Wherea.s the United States Board on Geographic Names some ten years ago deter- 

 mined to i)repare a dictionary of Alaska geographic names and appointed a commit- 

 tee vi^hich began the work of collecting the material therefor; and 



Whereas such committee, consisting of i\Iessrs. H. G. Ogden and Marcus Baker, 

 entered n\n)n the work and prosecuted it for two or three years, collecting the names 

 from all pul)lished and original sources; and 



Whereas Mr. Marcus Baker has since collected and discussed the evidence relat- 

 ing to the names and alternatives, in connection with his official duties, and has 

 written the dictionary: Therefore, 



Resolved, That the Board approve this dictionary, thus prepared, and provisionally 

 adopt the approved forms contained therein. 



A few revisions of previous decisions have been made and embodied 

 in this dictionary, which supersedes all previous Alaskan lists. 



