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up to 1752 on the far northwest coast and connections with China, with valuable maps of the north coasts, &c.

1757. Researches on the Voyages of the Chinese and Japanese to the American Coasts, by M. De Guignes; vide Journal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres; Paris, 1757.

1757.-Letres Edifiantes et Curieuses, &c., &c., of the Jesuit missionaries in all parts of the world, from 1600 to 1760, published in French, with translations in English, Spanish, German, Italian, &c., in some 30 vols., 12mo. Some of the volumes contain exceedingly interesting accounts of the first travels in the far northern parallels of Asia and America, and discoveries of the proximities of the old and the new continents to the north of California and of China. Jesuit writers lay claim to the first mention of this connection to the world of letters and science, and one of the volumes of the Letres Edifiantes contains the celebrated narration of Father Greelon, who was transferred to China before 1660, and travelled extensively as a missionary among the Manchoo and Mongolian populations of that empire. In one of his journeys in Chinese Tartary he fell in with an Indian woman of the Huron tribes, whom he had known when serving in the far west of Canada, and who confessed her sins to him as a priest of the Catholic church at this immense distance from her native country. This woman informed Greelon that she had been taken prisoner in an Indian fight, and had afterwards been transferred as a slave from tribe to tribe, until she had crossed in boats over a piece of water, which was salt, and again sold from one person to another until conveyed to the plains of Tartary. This fact is said by some to have first stimulated the attention of the Russian authorities, which resulted in the discovery of Behring Straits and Alaska. It was the redoubtable old sailor, Peter the Great, and after him his wife, the Empress Catherine, who set afloat the great discovery voyages of Vitus Behring and Alexander Tschirikoff in 1728-29 and to 1741, which sailed from Kamschatka, and discovered the straits which separated Asia from America, and fully confirmed the speculations of the old Jesuit missionaries of Canada, California, and China. (See the curious map of the Pacific in the Spanish edition of Venega's California. See also on this curious subject of Asiàtic and American ethnographic connections the celebrated work "Melanges Asiatiques" of A. Remusat, and the notes of Kurz in the Nouvelle Journal Asiatique on Chinese history.)

1774.-Discoveries of the Russians on the Northwest Coasts of America, &c., by Von Muller; quarto, London, 1774. Contains the earliest Russian voyages to Pacific America. 1774.-Account of the Northern Archipelago to the east of Kamtschatka, &c. &c., by J. Von Staehlin. 1 vol., 8vo, London, 1774.

1778.-American Atlas, or description of the whole continent of America, in grand folio, by Thos. Jeffreys; London, 1778.

1780.-Discoveries of the Russians in the North Pacific, by Rev. Dr. Wm. Cox; quarto, London, 1780. Contains the accounts of Behring's voyage of 1741, and other valuable histories.

1780.-Journal and Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg, from 1780 to present time; many volumes.

1781.-Historical and Geographical Miscellanies, by Hon. Daenis Barrington, 1 or 2 vols., 8vo; Lɔndon, 1781. Contains papers on extreme North Pacific coasts.

1788.-The Apocryphal Voyage of Francisco Maldonada through the Northwest Passage, published in Madrid about 1795 by the Royal Academy of History, from MSS. discovered in the Ambrosian library of Milan. Also, Cevallo's Voyages of Maldonada, De Fuca, and Fonte, 1 vol., 8vo, Madrid, 1798.

1789.- Voyage of Captains Portlock and Dixon to the Northwest Coasts of America, &c., &c., in the King George and Queen Charlotte, in 1788-'89; quarto, London, 1789.

1789.— l'issertation Geographico de Novo California, &c., by J. A. Hartman; quarto, Marburg, 1789.

1789.— Relation of a recent Spanish voyage to the northwest coasts of America, ante 1789, by J. F. Bourgoing. 3 vols., 8vo, (French) 3d edition, Paris, 1803.

1790.—Cook's Voyages. The three voyages of Captain James Cook between 1766 and 1776, to the Pacific and northwest coasts. The only reliable editions, which are in several volumes, are those published under the directions of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty of England, printed at London at separate periods before 1792.

1790.- The Voyages of Captain Billings to Behring Straits, Kamstchatka, &c., &c., 1785– 1790, in the Russian service, by Martin Sauer; quarto, London, 1796.

1790.-Voyages made in 1788-'89 between China and Northwest America, by Captain John Mearres, R. N.; quarto, London, 1790. Captain Dixon's reply to the same, 1 vol., quarto, London, 1790.

1791. Journal of the Voyage of the Spanish Exploring Ships Atrevida and Discubierta, under Captain Alexander Malaspina, in 1791; preserved in MSS. in the viceroy's library in Mexico and in the Spanish hydrography at Madrid Malaspina's charts were published in a quarto volume by the Spanish government about 1802, and credited to the voyage of the

Sutil and Mejicana, and afterwards became the established authorities in the Spanish marines for the north Pacific coast down to 1830.

1792.- The Viceroy's Archives of Mexican History, collected and arranged under orders from Viceroy Revilla Gigedo by Father Francisco Garcia Figueroa, and arranged in 32 or more folio volumes, and now in the old viceroy's library in Mexico City. Perfect copies of this valuable collection are stated to have been also sent to Madrid before 1800. It contains invaluable material, collated by Cassasola and Bonilla, on the Spanish discovery voyages to that portion of ancient Alta California between the latitudes 550 and 61°, as claimed by Spain, which afterwards became the domain of Russian America, and now forms a portion of the United States Territory of Alaska. See also contribution of Secretary Seward, in 1865, on Spanish northwest voyages, contained in the Bibliografa Californica of the author. 1793.-Voyages and Travels in Asiatic Russia and in the North Pacific, compiled by Professor Pierre Simon Pallas; 4 or 5 vols., quarto, Paris, 1789-'93. There are also English editions of the works of Pallas, who was a celebrated German professor in Russia under the patronage of the Empress Catharine II. This appears to be the same work edited or completed by Theodor K. de Mirievoy, and which contains such valuable material on the philology of Europe and Asia. Pallas also wrote extensively on the natural history of Russian America in German. Pallas was one of the greatest naturalists of his day, and his writings covered a multitude of subjects. His notations on the locust and grasshopper ravages in the Crimea, noticed by the learned Russian entomologist, Motschulsky, and also by the author of this bibliography in the Smithsonian report for 1859, are of great value in science. 1793.-Voyages and Travels to the Coppermine River and the Countries west of Canada in 1789-'93, by Alexander Mackenzie; in 8vo and quarto, London, 1801 and 1802. The work of Samuel Hearne, describing his voyage of 1770-1772 in some of the countries visited by Mackenzie, and for the discovery of copper mines, was published in London in quarto in 1795.

1799.-Voyage round the World, by Captain Jean Francois G. de La Perouse; edited by M. Millet Muriau. Government edition in French, 4 vols., quarto, 1797, maps and illustrations; also English and German editions.

1799.- Voyage to the Northwest Coats of America and Round the World, 1790 to 1792, in the French ship Solide, by Captain Etiene Marchand, preceded by an historical introduction of discoveries, &c., on the northwest coasts of America, by Claret Fleurell, (in French,) in 4 vols., quarto, Paris, 1799.

1801.-Voyage of Discovery and Exploration on the Northwest Coasts of America in 1790 to 1795, &c., &c, by Captain George Vancouver, R. N.; plates and maps; published by the government in 5 or 6 vols., quarto, London, 1801. Lieutenant Broughton, an officer of one of Vancouver's vessels, also published an account of the voyage in quarto form at London,

in 1804.

1802.- Voyage of the Sutil and Mexicana, exploring vessels, under Captains Dionisio Galiano and Cayatano Valdez, of the Spanish navy, in 1792, to the northwest coasts; published by order of the King of Spain, in 1 vol., 8vo, in 1802, with map. The Memorias sobre las Observaciones Astronomicas que han servido de fundamentos a las Cartas de la Costa Norweste de America, written about 1810 by Admiral Espinosa, of the Spanish navy, and published by the Hydrographic office of Madrid, is spoken of by Humboldt as a work of value. 1805.- Catalogo de las lenguas Conocidas, y numeracion, division y clases de estas, segun la diversidad de sus idiomas y dialectos, by Father Lorenzo Hervas, soc. Jesuits, in six vols., quarto, of nearly 400 pages each. Published at Madrid 1800 to 1805; also in octavo. 1806.-The The " Mithradates oder Allgmeine Sprachinkunde mit dem Vater als Sprachbone,” &c., a famous authority in the philosophy of languages, was commenced by John Christopher Adelung, of Berlin, in 1806, and concluded by John Severan Vater, in 1817, in five vols., 8vo, at Berlin. Another work was published by Frederick Adelung, in 1815, at St. Petersburg, in quarto, entitled "Catherinas der Grossen Verdienste," &c., &c. The Mithradates contains valuable matter on the Indian languages of the far north Pacific coasts.

1811.-Works of Alexander Humboldt. A critical examination of the history, navigation, and geography of the New World and the progress of nautical astronomy in the 15th and 16th centuries; in French, 5 vols., 8vo, Paris, 1836-39. Also, Researches concerning the Institutions and Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of North America, with descriptions and scenes in the Cordilleras, plates, maps, and plans; in 2 vols., folio, Paris, 1810; London edition, 2 vols., 8vo, 1814. Also, Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, in 2 vols., folio, Paris, 1808-1811, plates, maps, and plans; London edition in 4 vols., 8vo, 1811; also a New York edition in 2 vols., 8vo, 1811. All these works contain valuable notations on the Alaskan countries.

1812.-Puteschestwil W. America, by Chvostov I. Davidoff. 2 vols., 8vo, St. Petersburg,

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1814.-Voyage Round the World in the Russian ships Neva and Nadedsda, in 1803–1806, commanded by Adam John Von Kruesenstern, (afterwards admiral in the imperial navy.) English edition, in quarto, London, 1814, with maps, plates, &c. Also, Berlin edition. The

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other works published on this voyage by Kruesenstern's officers are Dr. Langsdorff's work, in 2 vols., quarto, London, 1816, and Captain Wrey Lisiansky's, in 1 vol., quarto, London, 1314. They were also all published in different forms in the Russian language and in French. Admiral Kruesenstern also wrote a work of 78 pages on the Indian languages of Alaska, for the St. Petersburg Academy, in 1813. He was also the most thoroughly instructed seaman in the world on the hydrography of the Pacific, and compiled those charts of the great ocean which are the models of all others, all of which, with his nautical notes and memoirs accompanying these, have made him celebrated among the savans of America and Europe. Before his death, about 1850, he had filled many posts of the highest honor in the imperial service, and was a man of the most estimable personal character.

1817.-Collection of Voyages in the South Seas and the North Pacific, from 1527 to 1800. By Admiral James Burney, R. N. In 6 vols., quarto, London, 1814-1817; with plates, charts, &c. This valuable work contains very little on voyages after 1770.

1817.- The American Coast Pilot, &c. By Edmund Blunt, of New York. The editions of this well-known work subsequent to 1850 contain valuable notices of the hydrography of Russian America and the northwest coasts. The same may be said of "The American Navigator," by N. A. Bowditch; but the editions of both works prior to 1850 are very meagre on the coasts mentioned.

1818-34.-Voyage to California and the North Pacific Coasts, in the French trading ship Bordelais. By Captain Camile Rocquefeul. 2 vols., 8vo, Paris, 1823.

Voyage Round the World in the French trading ship Heros, in 1826-1829. By Captain Duhaut Cilley. In 2 vols., 8vo, Paris, 1834. Both these works relate to California and the coasts further north, and contain much interesting matter on the fur trade of the epoch ante 1830.

1823.-Voyage of Discovery to the Pacific Ocean and Behring's Straits, California, &c., in the Russian ship Ruric, in 1815-1818. By Captain Otto Von Kotzebue, (afterwards admiral in the imperial navy.) In 3 vols., 8vo, London, 1823. Editions also in German and French. Chamisso was the surgeon and naturalist of the Ruric, and for many years after made valuable contributions to the learned societies of Russia, Germany, and France, on the fauna and flora of the countries visited, particularly of Alaska. Kotzebue also made another voyage to Russian America, the central Pacific islands, and California, in 1823 to 1826, in the Russian ship Enterprise, or Predpriate, an account of which was published in English at London in 1830, in 2 vols., 8vo. In this voyage Eschscholz went as naturalist, and after his arrival in Russia contributed valuable material on the fauna and flora of Alaska, California, &c., in different German, Russian, and French journals of learning and science, which are highly esteemed. Choris, the artist of Kotzebue's voyage, who was afterwards killed in Mexico, also published an illustrated work on the voyage, entitled "Voyage Pittoresque." These two voyages of Kotzebue are often confounded as one, and the names of Chamisso and Eschscholz, which Kotzebue attached to certain localities in Alaska, are sometimes mistaken for Indian or Spanish terms, and both as members of one expedition. Admiral Kotzebue served in the Crimean war, and was highly esteemed by his government, and a hydrographic author of eminence. He died, we believe, in 1858.

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1824.-Voyage to Russian America &c., by M. Chromtschenko; vide St. Petersburg Archives of History, &c., &c., for 1824; also in German in the periodical Hertha, for 1824. Chromtschenko and Etoline made surveys of the Alaskan coasts, which were reduced to charts and maps.

1831.-Voyage of the ship Blossom to the North Pacific and Behring's Straits in 1825 to 1828, to co-operate with the Arctic Expeditions from the Atlantic. By Captain F. W. Beechey, R. N., (afterwards admiral.) Published under orders of the British Admiralty. In 1 vol. quarto, also in 2 vols., 8vo, London, 1831; both with plates, maps, &c. A quarto volume on the natural history of the voyage was also published at London in 1839. The botanical collections were edited by Sir William J. Hooker and others, in the separate volumes included in the Flora Boreala Americana, published in 2 vols., quarto, about 1840, and Hooker's Plantae Iconii, of 1844. A large amount of valuable material relating to Alaska is to be found in all these volumes. Admiral Beechey, we believe, died in London in 1859.

1836.-Voyage to the North Pacific in the Russian ship Seniavive, in 1826-'29, by Captain Frederick Lutke, (now admiral in the Imperial navy,) in 4 vols., 8vo; St. Petersburg and Paris, 1835-'36. This is one of the most valuable works on Russian America and the north Pacific. The author served in the Crimean war of 1856.

1839.-Baer, Von K. E. Statistics and Ethnography of the Russian American Countries. This author, it is said, was with Admiral Von Wrangel when governor of Sitka, and made valuable contributions on the above subjects and on natural history to the scientific journals of St. Petersburg and Berlin, between 1837 and 1845.

1839.- The Physical History of Man. In 2 vols., 8vo, plates; 1839. The Natural History of Man. In 2 vols., 8vo, plates; 1855. Both by Dr. J. Pritchard, of London, and esteemed as high authorities in ethnology. They contain valuable matter on the Alaska Indians. The volumes of transactions of the ethnological societies of New York, London, and Paris also contain accounts of the tribes of the Territory to be found in no other publica

tions.

In this category are also the learned ethnological works of Dr. S. G. Morton, of Philadelphia, from 1840 to 1850.

1839.-Beitrage zur Kentniss des Russian Reichs, und der angranzanden Lander Asies, by K. E. Von Bar and G. Von Helmersen, in several volumes, from 1839 et sig.

1840.-Notes on the Islands of the district of Unalaska, &c., in 3 vols. 8vo, 1840. Also notes on the Koloschon and other Russian American Indian tribes and their languages, in 1 vol., 8vo, 1846, by the Greek Priest Jvan Veniaminov, (in Russian,) both published in St. Petersburg. W. Schott also published some philological papers on the Koloschon language, in Erman's archives, Berlin, 3d vol., 1843

1843.-Voyage of the Sulphur to the North Pacific, &c., in 1837-1841, under Sir Edward Belcher, R. N., (now admiral.) In 2 vols., 8vo, 1840. The zoology of the expedition, in quarto, was published in 1843-45. These accounts relate largely to Russian America. They are government works.

1844.—Explorations, &c., in the two Californias, &c., &c., in 1840-43. By Duflot de Mofras. In 3 vols., 8vo, with volume of atlas and plates. Paris, 1844. Government work. Contains notices of Alaska and its trade, Indians, &c.

1844.—Anales de la Philosophie Chretiene. Vol. 15 and others. Contains papers of M. Prevaney on the ethnological connections of Alaska and Mexico by the Mongolian races. 1845.--Overland Journey Round the World, &c. By Sir George Simpson, governor of the Hudson Bay territories in 1841-42. In 2 vols., 8vo, London, 1845. Also in New York. 1845.-Exploring Expedition Round the World, in the Vincennes and other government vessels of the United States, in 1838-42, under Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, (now admiral U. S. N.) In 5 vols., imperial octavo. Government work, 1845. Plates, maps, charts, and plans. Some 40 volumes altogether were published on the results of this expedition, many of which contain more or less valuable of scientific matter on Alaska. A number of the officers of the expedition afterwards served in California from 1846 to 1867.

1846.-L'Oregon et les Cotes du Norde Pacifique, &c. By M. Felix. With map; 1 vol., 8vo. Paris, 1846.

1846.-Ethnology and Philology of Wilkes's Exploring Expedition. By Horatio Hale. 1 vol., quarto. Philadelphia, 1846.

1847-History of Oregon, California, and the North Pacific Coasts. By Robert W. Greenhow. 1 vol., 8vo, 4th ed., Boston, 1847. Mr. Greenhow was United States attorney for the California Land Commission of 1852, and died in San Francisco in 1856. His work contains valuable notations on Alaskan history.

1847.-Studies on the Primitive History ica, by Gustave D'Eitethal, 2 vols., 8vo. America, by C. F. Jomard; 1 vol., 8vo. Paris in 1847.

and Antiquities of the Races of America and OceanFragments on the History, Geography, &c., of Both these works were published (in French) at

1848.-Volume of Charts and Maps on Russian America, &c., printed by the lithographic press at Sitka in 1848.

1849.-The Collections of Lieutenant Zogoskin, of the Imperial navy, on the Indian Tribes and Languages of Alaska, are printed in the Memoirs of the St. Petersburg Geographical Society for 1847-'48-'49, et seq., and also in his work of travels, in 2 vols., 8vo.; St. Petersburg, 1847-1848.

1850–60.—Orography, &c., of the North Pacific Countries, by Professor Grewingk, published in Transactions of the Mineralogical Society of St. Petersburg, and also in Germany. This is stated by Mr. Sumner to be a very valuable work, particularly on the mineral developments of Alaska.

1850.-National History of the Varieties of Man, by Dr. R. G. Latham. 8vo, London,

1850.

1851.—Sir John Richardson's Arctic Expedition. 2 vols., 8vo, London, 1851.

1851.—A Nautical and Historical Directory of the Pacific Coasts and Islands, &c., &c., by Alexander G. Findlay; 2 vols., royal 8vo, London, 1851. This is a work of great merit, and one of the best compiled on oceanic hydrography, and has been of great utility. The author is well known in England, and an eminent collaborator in the proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society. His notations on the Alaskan coasts are from the best authorities of Russia and other nations.

1852.—Voyage of the ship Herald, under Captain Hy. Kellet, in 1845 to 1851, being three cruises to the Behring's straits countries and a voyage round the world; by Dr. B. Seeman; 2 vols., 8vo, 1853. Other volumes on the natural history of the voyage were published by Prof. Edward F'orbes, 1 vol., quarto, 1853. A separate volume was written by Dr. Seeman on the botany of the voyage, in quarto. All of them are in high esteem in the learned world. See also the volumes of Sir Leopold McClintock on his voyage to Behring's straits and the Arctic, of 1852 to 1854; also, the volumes of the London Nautical Magazine. The

work of Seeman contains the model of an exploring voyage, and is the most convenient thing of the kind we have ever seen.

1855.-Admiral Von Wrangel. This gentleman, who several times visited California, was governor of Russian America before 1848, and wrote largely in the Russian and German journals on the status and natural history of Alaska. His works are considered of first-class merit.

1855.-Notices of the Crustacea and other Invertebrate Marine Animals of the North Pacific Countries, by Professor William Simpson, surgeon, &c., of the United States North Pacific expedition of 1854-'56. These notices were published in the transactions of several learned ocieties of Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, from 1855 to 1863, and would now make 12mo. of some 300 pages, and have become standard authorities in natural science. The author is well known in California, has contributed valuable services to the Smithsonian Institute, and is now in charge of the Chicago Museum of the Natural Sciences. His notations on the invertebrate animals of the Alaskan coasts are extremely interesting and curious. 1855.- Transactions of the California Academy of Natural Sciences, in 4 vols., 8vo, from 1855 to 1866; contains several valuable papers on the natural history, &c., of Alaska, by writers of the Pacific domain.

1855.—The Birds of Texas, California, Oregon, &c., by John Cassin, in 2 vols. quarto; Philadelphia, 1855; with plates. Also the volumes of John J. Audubon on the Biography of North American Birds, and his great work of accompanying plates, all published before 1855. The Quadrupeds of North American is a celebrated work; also written by Audubon and Dr. John Bachman, 1840-'43. All these volumes are splendidly illustrated, and relate largely to the natural history of Alaska.

1857.-John C. E. Buschmann, Librarian of the Royal Library of Berlin. The philological treatises of this eminent savan on the Indian languages of Russian America, and showing their relations to the Athabascan families west of the Rocky mountains, and comparisons with the northern tribes of Mexico, are contained in the volumes of Transactions of the Royal Academy of Berlin since 1850.

1857.-The North Pacific Exploring and Surveying Expedition, by Lieutenant A. W. Habersham, U. S. Navy; 1 vol., 8vo, 1857.

1857.-Three Years in Washington Territory, with notices of the northwest coasts, by Jas. G. Swan; 1 vol., 12mo, New York, 1857.

1857.-Mission to the Government of Japan, by Commodore M. C. Perry, U. S. Navy; in 3 vols., quarto, 1857, copiously illustrated. Contains highly valuable notices on the hydrography of the north Pacific, its great sea currents, &c., &c.; government work.

1857.- The Pacific Railroad Survey volumes, from 1853 to 1858, in 12 vols., quarto, copiously illustrated. The first volume and the 8th, 9th, and 10th contain valuable notations on the Indians, birds, fishes, and animals, &c., of the Pacific domains and of Alaska. In the eighth and ninth volumes may be found Spencer F. Baird's Bibliographies of American Natural History, where all the authorities on Alaskan zoology are set forth.

1858.-Reports of the United States Coast Survey Office, in quartos, since 1853. That of 1858 contains the excellent directory of George Davidson of the coasts of California and to the far north, and incidentally of Alaska.

1858.-Literature of the Aboriginal Languages of America, by H. E. Ludewig; with additions by W. W. Turner and N. Truebner. I vol., 8vo., London, 1858.

1860.-Chinese Repository. An English magazine published at Canton since 1838, and making now over 30 volumes. It contains an immense amount of matter on Asiatic literature, and has papers on Alaska and Kamstchatka. It was first edited by an American missionary from Massachusetts.

1860.-Geographical Dictionary of all the Countries of the World, by J. B. McCulloch ; in 2 vols., royal 8vo, London, 1855, and recent editions.

1860.-The Forest Trees of North America, by Dr. J. G. Cooper, of California; in Patent Office Report for 1860. This is an addendum to the great work of Michaux and Nuttall. 1860.-The Flora of North America, by Dr. John Torrey and Dr. Asa Gray; in royal 8vo volumes. Also, their continuations in the volumes of the Railroad Surveys.

1860.-Smithsonian Institution. The volumes of annual reports of this Institution, and those entitled "Contributions to Knowledge," contain several valuable notations on the Indians and natural history of Alaska. Major Robert Kennicott, of Chicago, one of their most famous assistants, and who explored the eastern sections of Alaska in 1862-'64, died at Michaelowski, in that Territory in May, 1866, while engaged in explorations connected with Bulckley's Telegraph Survey. The manuscripts of his travels are said to be in possession of his friends in Chicago and the Smithsonian Institution.

1860.- The Indianalogy of California, including notes on the Indian tribes of Alaska and other portions of the Pacific domain; published in the California Farmer newspaper in four series of 150 numbers, from 1860 to 1864, by Alex. S. Taylor; perfect set in the mercantile

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