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Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 1870, pp. 587-616. [This is the 

 best study of Steller. It is based on the sources; these are discussed 

 critically on pp. 587-588.] 



Steller' s Works 



(Steller wrote numerous botanical, zoological, and other 

 reports during the expedition. Some of these he sent to St. 

 Petersburg, some were transmitted to the authorities there by 

 others after his death, some never reached their destination. At 

 the present day it is therefore difficult to reconstruct a list of 

 them, still more so to indicate their whereabouts. Those that 

 were published are listed below under (6) ; those in manuscript 

 form whose location is known are listed immediately below, 

 under (a). As regards the large remainder, several references 

 afford a clue to their identity: (i) list of the reports sent to 

 the Senate by Steller with his communication of July 12, 1743 

 (Pekarskii, Zapiski Imp. Akad. Nauk, Vol. 15, Suppl. No. i, 

 1869, p. 26), a number of which could not be located when an 

 investigation was made in 1746 (ibid., p. 26); (2) list by Krash- 

 eninnikov of reports by Steller transmitted to the Academy of 

 Sciences by the painter Berckhan after Steller's death (Pekarskii, 

 Istoriya Akademii Nauk, Vol. i, 1870, pp. 613-616); (3) reports 

 mentioned in the biographies of Steller in Beytrdge zur Historic 

 der Gelahrtheit, Vol. i, 1748, p. 120, and in " Beschreibung von 

 dem Lande Kamtschatka," 1774, pre-p. 20 (the latter probably 

 taken by Scherer from the former or its equivalent) . Several of 

 Steller's zoological reports, including the " Ornithologia sibirica" 

 and the " Ichthyologia sibirica" were in Pallas' hands in 1777, 

 so he tells us {Physikalisch-okonomische Bibliothek von Johann 

 Beckmann, Vol. 8, 1777, pp. 459-460). He likewise says that 

 J. G. Gmelin had utiHzed the botanical reports. Pallas himself 

 incorporated statements from Steller's reports, as indicated by 

 numerous passages in his "Zoographia rosso-asiatica," 1811- 

 1831; likewise Krasheninnikov in his "Histoire et description 

 du Kamtchatka," 1770. 



(a) Manuscript 



II. Zweyte auf Russisch hohen Kayserlichen Befchl unternommene 

 Kamtschatzkische Expedition, das ist Beschreibung der Reise des 

 Hn. Capitain Commendeur Behrings welche zur Untersuchung der 

 von Kamtschatka Nord Ostlich gelegenen Lander angestellet, auch 

 derjenigen Insuln worauf an Land zu gehen Gelegenheit gehabt und 

 wo vvir 1742 iiberwintert. Dabey nebst unsern Schicksaalen die 

 darauf befindlichen Subjecta des 3. fachen Natur Reiches recensiret 



