XXX INTRODUCTION 



gion from British Columbia to Bering Strait, and consti- 

 tute incomparably the best series of pictures of the region 

 thus far obtained. Nevertheless, certain objects of im- 

 portance escaped, and in selecting the illustrations for the 

 reports of the Expedition an attempt has been made to fill 

 the gaps as far as possible by borrowing from others. 

 The use of photographic material for reproduction has 

 been granted by the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 

 the U. S. Geological Survey, the U. S. Fish Commission, 

 the U. S. Revenue Marine Service, Lieutenant G. H. 

 Doty, and Mr. Harry D. Chichester, to all of whom the 

 thanks of the Expedition are due. Some of the best pic- 

 tures of fur-seals, sea-lions, and murres are from Mr. Chi- 

 chester's negatives, which, in view of the climatic obsta- 

 cles to successful photography in Bering Sea, are of 

 unusual merit. 



The text figures are from line drawings made either 

 from photographs, or, in the case of Indian and Eskimo 

 articles, directly from the objects. The larger number 

 of the drawings are by W. E. Spader of New York, and 

 Louise M. Keeler of California. 



The colored illustrations have been derived from four 

 sources: landscape and glacier paintings by R. Swain 

 Gifford and Fred S. Dellenbaugh; paintings of birds 

 from living or flesh specimens by Louis Agassiz Fuertes; 

 paintings of flowers by Frederick A. Walpole, and paint- 

 ings of the Kadiak bear and fox by Charles R. Knight. 

 Mr. Giflbrd, Mr. Dellenbaugh, and Mr. Fuertes were 

 members of the Expedition and made their sketches, and 

 in many cases their finished paintings, in the field. Mr. 

 Walpole, through the cooperation of Mr. Harriman and 

 the Division of Botany of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, was sent to Alaska the following year 

 (1900) for the special purpose of securing drawings and 

 paintings of Alaska plants. 



