THREE WEEKS IN HUBBARD BAY 11 



Jordan island, for President D. S. Jordan, Stanford University. 



Kasson (Cape), for Hon. John A. Kasson, ex-U. S. Minister to Austria 

 and Germany. 



Kyle island, for Hon. James H. Kyle, U. S. Senator. 



Langley (Mt.), for Hon. S. P. Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution. 



McGee (Mt.), for Prof. W J McGee, Ethnologist in Charge, Bureau of 

 American Ethnology. 



Newcomb (Cape), for Hon. Simon Newcomb, ex-Director Nautical Almanac 



Pepper (Mt.). for Dr William E. Pepper, ex-Provost of the University of 

 Pennsylvania; President of the Museum of Science and Arts, Phila- 

 delphia; President of the Pan-American Medical Congress. 



Powell (Mt.), for Major J. W. Powell, Director of the Bureau of Amer- 

 ican Ethnology ; ex-Director of the U. S. Geological Survey. 



Porter island, for Gen. Horace Porter, U. S. Ambassador to France. 



Proctor strait, for Hon. Redfield Proctor, U. S. Senator. 



Richardson island, for Mrs Ellen A. Richardson, President of the George 

 Washington Memorial Association. 



Ridpath island, for Dr John Clark Ridpath, Editor of the Arena. 



Sherman strait, for Hon. John Sherman, Secretary of State ; ex-U. S. 

 Senator. 



Smith peninsula, for Col. Wilbur R. Smith, Kentucky University. 



Strauss glacier, for Hon. Oscar S. Strauss, ex-U. S. Minister to Turkey. 



Vilas (Mt.), for Hon. William F. Vilas, ex-Secretary of the Interior; ex- 

 U. S. Senator. 



Walcott peninsula, for Hon. C. D. Walcott, Director of the U. S. Geolog- 

 ical Survey. 



White island, for Hon. Andrew D. White, U. S. Ambassador to Germany ; 

 ex-U. S. Minister to Russia. 



Wilson strait, for Hon. William L. Wilson, ex- Postmaster General; 

 President of Washington and Lee University. 



Wright (Lake), for Hon. Carroll D.Wright, U. S. Commissioner of Labor. 



Besides these, the following names were deemed appropriate : 



Mounts Bjorling and Kallstenius, for the two young Swedish explorers 

 who were lost in an attempt to reach Ellesmere land in 1893. The 

 two peaks were ascended by Bjorling in 1891. 



Mount Ryder, for Lieut. Ryder, of the Danish Navy, the first explorer of 

 Hubbard bay. The peak is the highest that he sighted from his 

 farthest north. 



Mount Operti, for Mr Albert Operti, the "Arctic artist," who accompanied 

 Lieut. Peary on two expeditions. A cairn erected on the peak by 

 Prof. Gill in 1896 was named after Mr Operti. The peak was erro- 

 neously called Devil's Thumb by Ryder. The real Devil's Thumb is 

 in Alison bay. 



Gill bay, for Prof. Gill, of the Cornell party of 1896, who ascended Mount 

 Operti, overlooking this bay. 



Tarr bay, for Prof. Tarr, the leader of the Cornell party. 



