Report of the International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska
Subtitle: in response to the resolution of the House of Representatives of December 11, 1884
Series: Ex. doc / 48th Congress, 2nd session. House -- no. 44; Ex. doc. (United States. Congress. House) -- 48th Congress, 2nd session, no. 44; Open Collections Program at Harvard University
Publisher: G.P.O.
Published: 1885
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 695
Subjects: Geophysics; Observations; Scientific expeditions; Inuit; Natural history; International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska (1881-1883)
Notes: Report of Lieut. P.H. Ray, commanding the expedition, to the chief of the U.S. Signal Office.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 171-176.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Orders and instructions; title: pt. 2. Narrative / by Lieut. P.H. Ray; title: pt. 3. Ethnographic sketch of the natives of Point Barrow / by Lieut. P.H. Ray: 1. Sketch. 2. Approximate census of Eskimos at the Cape Smythe village. 3. Vocabulary collected among the Eskimos of Point Barrow and Cape Smythe. 4. Catalogue of ethnological specimens collected by the Point Barrow expedition / prepared by John Murdoch; title: pt. 4. Natural history / by John Murdoch: 1. Mammals. 2. Birds. 3. Fishes. 4. Insects / [by C.V. Riley]. 5. Marine invertebrates (exclusive of mollusks). 6. Report on the mullosks / by W.H. Dall. 7. Collecting localities and dredging stations. 8. Plants / by Prof. Asa Gray. Appendix; title: pt. 5. Meteorology; title: pt. 6. Terrestrial magnetism / [by C.A. Schott, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey]; title: pt. 7. Tides; title: pt. 8. Miscellaneous observations.