CAPT. ROBERT A. BARTLETT 
GREENLAND EXPEDITION of 1938 
Under the Auspices of 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
AND CLEVELAND MUSEUM 
REPORT OF THE SCIEOTIFIO COLLECTING DONE 
. IN THE CANADUN ARCTIC 
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We arrived in Canadian waters on August 9> 195S off Talbot Inlet« 
Ellesme reland, and worked south along the shore. On August 10, finding 
ice conditions favorable, we went into Makinson's Inlet, but got only 
as far as the small island, having to come out on account of bad wind, 
. We went south to Coburg Island where we anchored on the night of the 
eleventh in wind and fog. on August IJ we passed close by a Murre 
.loomery on Bylot Island in thick fog. On August l6 we were off Cape 
Raper, Baffinland, and in a gale of wind and rain ducked inside the 
Cape to anchor in a small sheltered cove. Here is the only place that 
we were ashore in Canadian Territory, and it was in a sleet storm at 
dusk. On the next day the wind had moderated and we again got undee 
way, proceeding south along the shore through scattered ice until we 
arrived off Resolution Island on August 26. 
We collected birds for the Cleveland Museum of Natural History 
and birds, stomachs, flowers, insects, and marine life for the United 
States National Museum. 
For the Cleveland Museum of Natural History we collected the 
following list of birdskins* 
5 Brunnich's Murres 
2 from Bylot Island 
5 from Coburg Island 
1 Lapland Long spur 
from Cape Raper, Baffinland 
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6 Specimens (total) 
For the United States National Museum we collected the following 
fist of specimens t 
CD Bird Skeletons! 
8 Ivory Gulls 
from off Talbot Inlet, Ellesmereland 
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