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Historical Statement of Studies of Muir Glacier. 



The first description of the region is that given by 

 Vancouver, of Lieutenant Whidbey's observations in 1794, 

 when the glacier front seems to have been out as far as 

 the Beardslee islands. The region was visited by Lieu- 

 tenant Wood in 1877 and by John Muir in 1879 and 1880, 

 at which time the glacier since named Muir glacier ter- 

 minated in Muir inlet. The first geologist to observe 

 and describe it was Lamplugh in 1884; C. F. Wright spent 

 a month studying Muir glacier in 1886 and presented the 

 first fairly full description. I. C. Russell spent a few 

 hours in Muir inlet in 1890, and in 1890 and 1892 H. F. 



Excursion C 8. 



Stumps of buried forest, Muir inlet, Glacier bay. 



Reid made extensive surveys, on the basis of which he has 

 published by far the most comprehensive account of Muir 

 and the other glaciers of Glacier bay [62, 63]. In this, 

 for the first time, the other glaciers are described and 

 mapped. H. P. Cushing, who accompanied Reid on the 

 1890 expedition, has also written upon the region [24]. 

 The Canadian Boundary Commission mapped the region 



