THE
EXECUTIVE DOCUMENTS
OF THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FOR THE
SECOND SESSION OF THE FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
1882-'83.
IN TWENTY-FIVE VOLUMES.
VOLUME 23.
WASHINGTON:
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.
1883.
| 47th Congress, | } | HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. | { | Ex. Doc. |
| 2d Session. | No. 105. |
LETTER
FROM
THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY,
IN RESPONSE TO
A resolution of the House of Representatives transmitting the observations and notes made during the
cruise of the revenue-cutter Corwin in 1881.
March 3, 1883.—Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Treasury Department,March3, 1883.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of resolution of the House, dated March 3, 1883, requesting that the Secretary of the Treasury furnish, as soon as convenient, to the Speaker of the House copies of documents in the possession of the Treasury Department containing observations on glaciation, birds, natural history, and the medical notes made upon cruises of revenue-cutters in the year 1881.
In reply, I transmit herewith the observations on glaciation in the Arctic Ocean and the Alaska region, made by Mr. John Muir; notes upon the birds and natural history of Bering Sea and the northwestern region, by Mr. E. W. Nelson; and medical notes and anthropological notes relating to the natives of Alaska and the northwestern Arctic region, made by Dr. Irving C. Rosse.
All these notes were made upon the cruise of the revenue-cutter Corwin in 1881.
Very respectfully,
H. F. FRENCH,
Acting Secretary.
Hon.J. W. Keifer,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
BOTANICAL NOTES ON ALASKA.
BY
JOHN MUIR.
BOTANICAL NOTES.
By John Muir.
INTRODUCTORY.
The plants named in the following notes were collected at many localities on the coasts of Alaska and Siberia, and on Saint Lawrence, Wrangel, and Herald Islands, between about latitude 54° and 71°, longitude 161° and 178°, in the course of s