lOOS.] 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



539 



1845. IsBisTEE, A. K. Some Account of Peel River, N. America. <Joiiru. 

 Roy. Geog. Soc, Vol. XY, Article XI, pp. 332-345. 



A general account of the Peel and Rat rivers and portions of the 

 adjacent countrj-, with brief notes on the fauna and flora. 



1849. MXean, Johx. Notes of a Twenty-five Years' Service in the Hudson's 



Bay Territory. Two vols., Svo : I, pp. 308 ; II, pp. 328. London. 



This is a narrative of the author's experiences while a trader in 

 various parts of Canada. His wanderings included a short sojourn 

 on Great Slave Lake and the Mackenzie. 



1850. (jk>oDsiR, Robert Axstbuther. An Arctic Yoyage to Baffin's Bay and 



Lancaster Sound, in Search of Friends with Sir John Franklin. 12mo, 

 pp. 152. London. 



An account of a whaling voyage to Baffin's Bay and Lancaster 

 Sound in 1849. Many notes on natural history occur. 



1851. Richardson, John. Arctic Searching Expedition : A Journal of a Boat- 



Yoyage through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea. in search of the 

 Discovery Ships under command of Sir John Franklin. With an Ap- 

 pendix on the Physical Geography of North America. Two vols., Svo ; 

 Yol. I, pp. 413; vol. II, pp. 426. London. There is also a New York 

 edition (1 vol.. Svo, pp. 516, 1852), apparently identical in matter. 



A narrative of an expedition to the Arctic Sea by way of the Methye, 

 Clearwater, Athabaska. Slave, and Mackenzie Rivers. The coast to the 

 eastward of the mouth of the Mackenzie was followed to the mouth of 

 Coppermine River, and the party then traveled overland to Great Bear 

 Lake, where it passed the winter of 1848^9. The narrative is filled 

 with notes on the natural history, physiography, geology, and climat- 

 ology of the region visited, as well as of many other portions of north- 

 ern North America. 



1851. Snow, W. Parker. Yoyage of the Prince Albert in search of Sir John 



Franklin : A Narrative of Every-day Life in the Arctic Seas. 12mo, 

 I)p. 416. London. 



A narrative of the voyage of the Prince Albert to Prince Regent Inlet 

 and Wellington Channel in 1850. A very few notes on natural history 

 appear in the narrative, and a few more in " Scientific and General 

 Remarks," in the Appendix. 



1852. OsEORN, Sherard. stray Le'aves from an Arctic Journal ; or. Eighteen 



Months in the Polar Regions, in search of Sir John Franklin's Ex- 

 pedition, in the years 1850-51. 12mo, pp. 320. London. 



The Pioneer, one of Austin's squadron, wintered at Griffiths Island. 

 In the spring of 1851, Osborn, among others, made a sledge journey 

 to the northern shores of Prince of AYales Land. A very few natural 

 history notes are given. 



1852. Peterman, Augustus. Notes on the Distribution of Animals available 

 as Food in the Arctic Regions. <Journ. Roy. Geog. Soc. London, 

 XXII, pp. 118-127. 



The scope of this article is partially explained by the title. Par- 

 ticular stress is laid on the probability of the members of the Franklin 

 expedition obtaining food. 



1852. Rae, John. Journey from Great Bear Lake to Wollaston Land. < Journ. 

 Roy. Geog. Soc, XXII, pp. 73-82. 



This is Dr. Rae's official report, communicated by the Hudson's Bay 

 Company to the Royal Geographical Society, concerning his expedition 

 by dog-sled to Wollaston Land from Fort Confidence, Great Bear Lake, 



