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from the Arctic coasts of western North America and are of especial interest. Mr. L. M Turner, who was stationed at St. Michaels, Norton Sound, Alaska, from 1874 to 1877, at the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, in 1879, and at Fort Chimo, Ungava Bay, northern Labrador, from 1882 to 1884, secured many valuable specimens at all of those localities, and his collections were very carefully prepared. Mr. E. W. Nelson, who succeeded Mr. Turner at the Saint Michaels station and remained there four years, was equally successful, and subsequently, on the revenue steamer Corwin, Captain Hooper commanding, obtained valuable collections at Wrangel Land, in the Arctic Ocean, and at numerous places in Bering sea.

The Signal Service party to Point Barrow, Alaska, from 1881 to 1883, under command of Lieut P.H. Ray, U.S.A., with Mr. John Murdoch and Mr. Middleton Smith as naturalists, gave much time