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ALASKA GLACIERS 
In the original exploration of Reid Inlet in 1879, Muir 
found it headed by a single great glacier whose ice cliff 
spanned the fiord from wall to wall, being interrupted only 
by a single boss of rock, half island, half nunatak. This 
glacier he named the Grand Pacific. When Reid in 1892 
found and mapped two great glaciers, besides a third of 
moderate size, Muir wondered and was perplexed, for it 
did not seem possible that he could have overlooked two 
tidal glaciers; and it was not until he revisited the inlet 
in 1899 that the mystery was solved. During the thirteen 
years which had intervened between exploration and sur- 
of which received newspaper publication. Reid, who made the first survey 
(1892), adopted Muir’s names and added others, his nomenclature being first 
fully published in 1896 (Sixteenth Ann. Rept. U. S. Geol. Survey; text and 
map). The Canadian International Boundary Commission, surveying the same 
region in 1894, prepared maps with a different nomenclature. These maps, be¬ 
ing primarily for the use of commissioners in connection with the pending 
boundary question, have not been officially published, but they have been unoffi¬ 
cially distributed and their data compiled in various maps. 
The following are the discrepancies : 
Reid's name. Can. B. Com. name. 
Glacier reaching Reid Inlet from 
the north. 
Glacier reaching Reid Inlet from 
the west. 
Glacier reaching Rendu Inlet. 
Glacier reaching Hugh Miller 
Inlet from the south. 
Glacier reaching Queen Inlet. 
Glacier reaching Geikie Inlet 
from the south. 
Grand Pacific. 
Johns Hopkins 
Rendu. 
Charpentier. 
Carroll. 
Wood. 
Johns Hopkins, 
No name. 
Charpentier. 
No name. 
Woods. 
No name. 
It would appear that the cartographer of the Commission had moved three 
names—Johns Hopkins, Charpentier, Wood(s)—from the glaciers to which 
they were attached by Reid, and given them to other glaciers, displacing the 
names given to these others by Reid. No new names are added, and the dis¬ 
placed names do not appear elsewhere. 
Reid’s nomenclature is followed by the U. S. Coast Survey in chart 3095, 
Glacier Bay (1899). The Canadian Commission is followed by the U. S. Coast 
Survey in chart 8001, Northwestern coast of North America (edition of 1898), 
and in chart 3091, Territory of Alaska, southeast section (1898). Otto J. Klotz, 
an officer of the Canadian Survey, in the Geographical Journal (vol. xiv, 1899), 
uses Reid’s name, Grand Pacific, in his text (p. 529), but in the titles to two 
figures (pp. 527, 529) applies the Commission name Johns Hopkins to the 
Grand Pacific Glacier of Reid. 
Reid’s names have recently been adopted by the U. S. Board on Geographic 
Names. See National Geographic Magazine, vol. xn, page 87, 1902. 
