The first scientific exploration of Russian America and the purchase of Alaska /
James, James Alton,1864-1962.
Evanston ; Chicago : Northwestern University,
1942.
"Primary interest ... has centered in the effort to ascertain the specific contributions made by these explorers, [Robert Kennicott and Henry M. Bannister] assistants in the Smithsonian Institution, to Senator Sumner's knowledge of Russian America ... The Kennicott journal was published in the first volume of the Transactions of the Chicago Academy of Sciences in 1869 ... The Bannister journal ... has not been published and is now in the archives of Northwestern University."--Pref.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Kennicott, Robert, 1835-1866.
Bannister, Henry M. (Henry Martyn), 1844-1920.