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questionable, there is no doubt in my mind that the intro¬ 
duction of the deer into the Aleutian chain is not only per¬ 
fectly practicable, but that it offers the only solution of the 
problem of providing for the Aleuts which seems to possess 
the elements necessary for success. There are no predacious 
animals to molest the deer, like the wolves of the mainland; 
there is an abundant supply of forage, and the climate and 
conditions are those that the animal is known to thrive in. 
A herd introduced a few years ago into Bering island, on 
the Russian coast, and simply let alone and protected from 
dogs, has increased very much in number and will soon 
afford skins and tallow for export. There is no obvious rea¬ 
son why on most of the Aleutian islands equally good re¬ 
sults should not be obtained. Some few deer were intro¬ 
duced upon the island of Amaknak, in the bay of Unalashka, 
a few years since, but they were the property of whites, not 
natives, were not protected from the numerous dogs of an 
adjacent settlement, and have not thriven. 
When the time comes, and it seems not far away, when 
the natives realize that they must depend on the deer to re¬ 
place the vanishing fur animals as a source of income, and 
when they can acquire property in deer, I believe the result 
will be all that could be wished. 
In closing this summary of early conditions in the Terri¬ 
tory and of the events which enabled them to be observed, 
it may not be out of place to summarize also th*e results of 
the scientific work of those years. Of course, only the more 
important points can be alluded to. As the Western Union 
Telegraph Expedition ended by a withdrawal from the 
country, and was the occasion of a large expenditure of 
money with no return to its promoters, no general report 
was ever officially prepared, and the work of the scientific 
corps was made known piecemeal in various technical jour¬ 
nals. The published results were associated in the minds of 
students with the individual authors rather than with the 
expedition as a whole. The subsequent work under the 
auspices of the Coast Survey, which in fact grew out of the 
