CAPT. ROBERT A. BARTLETT 
GREENLAND EXPEDITION of 1938 
Under the Auspices of 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
AND CLEVELAND MUSEUM 
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REPORT OF THE SCIENTIFIC COLLECTING IN GREEMLAND. 
By D. C. Nutt. 
Our first stop on the way north was at Godhavn, Disko, where w© 
spent but a few hours, time enough to water, before proceeding north 
and across Melville Bay. We stopped at Cape York for a day and at 
Parker Snow Bay for a few hours before going into Inglefield Gulf on 
July 29. While we were in Inglefield Gulf, I was ashore for two days and 
went into the Salmon Lake region. After obtaining Narwhal skulls for 
the United States National Museum here, we w6nt out through Murchison 
Sound and north past Cape Alexander to gettthe Walrus pups and skulls 
also for the United States National Museum. We put into Etah for an 
afternoon to find the remains of the MacGregor Expedition and a note 
from MaoMillen who had been there on July 29. After reaching the edge 
of the solid ice of Littleton Island we came south with the walrus 
meat for the Eskimos and made four hauls with our large otter trawl 
on the walrus grounds of Murchison Sound, before leaving for the 
Canadian shore on August 8, 1938. 
We collected birds for The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, 
and birds, mamsials and their stomach, flowers, insects and marine life 
for the United States National Museum. The entire collecting was under 
my direction, and I had three assistants to help me. Rupert Bartlett, 
Captain Bartlett *s nephew, was in charge of collecting flowers, Hugh 
Byfield was in charge of collecting microscopic life and insects j and 
Ray Hellmann aided me personally in the collection of birds and marine 
life. Here is a general list of the things we collected that will give 
a rough idea of our work: 
5 Narwhal Skulls 
4 Walnis Skulls 
2 Walrus Pups (alive) 
73 Bird skins 
72 bottles of marine life 
6 bottles of Insects 
8 bottles of Red Snov/ 
91 Bird stomachs 
1 Mammal stomachs 
