356 PUBLICATIONS ON ALASKA AND ADJACENT REGIONS. 



United States. Department of state — continued. 



Purchase of the Russian possessions in North America by the United States. 



Papers relating to the value and resources of the country. 5 pp. fol. [Washington, govern- 

 ment printing office, 1867.] 



CONTENTS. 



Letter from Mr. Collins to Mr. Seward. 



Letter from gen. Meigs to Mr. Seward. 



Telegram from gen. Halleck to Mr. Stanton. 



Extract from a letter from commodore Rodgers to the department of state. 



Some account of Russian America by prof. Baird. 



Letter from Mr. Gibbs to Mr. Seward. 



Extract from a letter from Mr. Fletcher to Mr. Seward. 



Note. — This is one of the confidential documents of the state department. Its contents all appear in Con- 

 gressional Papers. H. of E. — 40th Cong. 2d sess. — Ex. Doc. No. 177, pp. 25-33. 



See Peihce (B. M.) 



The following papers were turned over by Russia to the United States at Sitka 



April 7th, 1807, and are now in the archives of the department of state : 



I. Despatches and other correspondence of the board of directors of the Russian American company for the 

 years 1802, 1817-1860. 



II. Journals of the correspondence betAveen the governor of the colonies and the board of directors of the com- 

 pany and other persons for the years 1818-1867. 



III. Log-books kept on board the company's vessels on their voyages in the colonies. 



IV. Journal of the explorations of capt. Archimandrite!!' in 1860 and 1864; on the northwestern coast of Kadiak 

 and in Norton sound and the Pribiloff islands. 



V. Journal of Zagoskin's explorations. 



Xote A. — A casual examination of Nos. I, II, and III led to the impression that the documents related solely to 

 the internal colonial administration and not to that between the colonial direction and the mother country. 



Xote B. — The paper supposed to have been issued by the department of state, and catalogued under Black 

 (J.) in the early part of this list, may have had no existence, and its title may have been due to a misconcep- 

 tion of the editor of the British magazine which professed to copy or reprint it. The department knows nothing 

 of such a paper, which, however, seems to have been based on notes issued by the department. 



Interior department. Bureau of education. Annual reports. 8°. Government print- 

 ing office, Washington, D. C. 1874-1879. 



Consult reports of hon. John Eaton, commissioner of education, as follows : 

 Report for 1870. pp. 336, 339, 345. 

 1*73. ]>. 424. 



1874. pp. 459-460. 



1875. pp. 463-466. 

 1877. pp. xxxi-xxxii. 



[Publications of geological surveys.] 



See Powell (J. W.) and Dall (W. H.) 



Navy department. Bureau of navigation. Hydrographic office. Books published for 



purposes of navigation. Nos. 1-61. Washington, totreau of navigation, 18i)S-187o. 



No. 5. General examination of the Pacific ocean, followed by nautical directions for avoiding hurricanes. 

 Translated from the second French edition, [by com. C. H. Davis, u. s. ».] xiv, i 1. 212 pp. 3 maps. 8°. 

 Washington, bureau of navigation, 1869. See Kekiiallet. 



No. 20. Directory for Behring's sea and coast of Alaska, arranged from the directory of the Pacific ocean by A. 

 G. Findlay. 193 pp. 8°. Washington, government printing office, 1869. See Bureau of Navigation. 



No. 54. Deep-sea soundings in the north Pacific ocean, obtained in the United States steamer Tuscarora, com- 

 mander George E. Belknap. 51pp. 19pl. 9 profiles, lmap. 8°. Washington, government printing office, 1874. 



Hydrographic notices, 1809 to 1879. 11 v. 8°. Washington, government 



printing office, 1870-1880. 



1869. Hyd. notice No. 13, issued .July 26; 29 pp. and 1 1. of errata. Notes by commander R. W, Meade, jr., on 

 the Alexander archipelago. 



1875. Hyd. notice No. 67, issued Nov. 20; 11 pp. Gulf of Tartary, Saghalin island, the Amoor leman, (etc.) 



1876. 11yd. notice No. 32, issued May 24 ; 4 pp. Sailing directions for the Amur river. 



1877. Hyd. notice No. 66, issued Nov. 27 ; 17 pp. Sailing directions for Queen Charlotte, Smith and Fitzhugh 



sounds, by lieut. Daniel Pender, r.n. 



1879. Hyd. notice No. 35, issued June 3; 2 pp. Keen's rock, Sitka sound. 



Hyd. notice No. 63, issued Oct. 11 ; 3 pp. Symond's bay, (etc.) 



Hyd. notice No. 66, issued Nov. 10; 2 pp. Sitka entrance. 



Notice to mariners No. 81, issued Aug. 14; 2 pp. Sitka. 



