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CAPT. ROBERT A. BARTLETT 
GREENLAND EXPEDITION of 1938 
Under the Auspices of 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
AND CLEVELAND MUSEUM 
REPORT ON THE SCIENTIFIC COLLECTING DONE IN NEIFOUNDLAND AND 
LABRADOR TOTE FIELD NOTES. 
By D. C. NUTT. 
Out only Newfoiindland stop was Brigus on July 7, 1938, where we re- 
mained for four days. From here we went north along the coast of Labra- 
dor, stopping only at W. Turnavik on July 16 before hauling away for the 
Greenland coast. We came south along the Baff inland and Labrador coasts 
stopping at Turnavik on August 30 and Square Island on September 2. Yfe 
again put into Brigus for two days on September 5. 
At each of these places we were able to get ashore at least for a 
short while to do some collecting. I have prepared the following field 
notes for each of these places. We collected birds for The Cleveland 
Museum of Natural History and flowers, insects, marine life, and stomachs 
•for The United States National Museum. The entire collecting was under 
my direction; I had three able assistants which made collecting in such 
varied fields possibles Rupert Bartlett, Captain Bartlett’s nephew, was 
the botanist and made a collection of representative flowers each time 
ashore in Labrador; Hugh Byfield was in charge of collecting insects 
and microscopic life; while Ray Heilman aided me with the collection 
of birds and marine life and stomachs. 
Before starting the field notes on the places visited I wish to make 
a few general statements on our work. On our way south we made a series 
of Plankton Hauls. In all we made nineteen from Cape Raper, Baff inland 
to Cape Freels, Newfovmdland. Also eight jellyfish were collected while 
in Conception Bay and off the coast of Newfoundland. A bottom sample was 
taken off White Handerchief, Labrador (app. 59 35' N. Lat., 63 15' W. Long.) 
On August 31, 1938, 3 Gannets were observed off the Bulldog Island, Labra- 
dor (54 38’ N. Lat., 57 02' W. Long.). Early in the morning of September 
1, the boatswain saw a flock of about ten or twelve and later that day I, 
myself, saw tvro more. Then we were off Round Hill. I again observed one 
off St. Lewis Sound on September 3. Fron then on they were fairly common 
as we went down the Newfoundland coast, especially near Cape Broyle where 
we saw many flocks, one of 31 (counted) and one of about a hundred. The 
Gannet is not supposed to occur on the coast of Labrador according to 
0. L. Austin Jr. irihis book "Birds of Newfoundland Labrador" who says 
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