ERIC HULTÉN - HISTORY OF BOTANICAL EXPLORATION IN ALASKA - PAGE 301

Herald returned to Cape Lisburne, and on the way back Pt Clarence was visited on Sept. 4. The collections, which are at Kew, were published by SEEMANN under the title »The Botany of the voyage of H. M. S. Herald . . .» (London 1852-57). A list of the specimens collected by PULLEN was also included in the publication.
        1851-68.   Tiling, Heinrich Sylvester Theodor, from Livonia, physician at the hospital at Sitka, collected at Unalaska in 1851 and at Sitka between 1866-68. Collections in Leningrad, some duplicates in Nat. Herb., Washington.
        1851.   Barclay, George, naturalist of the British ship Sulphur, collected a few specimens about this time at Sitka and Kodiak.
        1859-65.   Kennicott, Robert, director of the museum of the Chicago Acad. of Sc. In 1859 he reached Fort Yukon from the east over an inland route. In 1864 he was attached to the Western Union Telegraph Company and proceeded together with ROTHROCK, DALL, ELLIOTT, BANNISTER, BISCHOFF and others to Sitka. In 1865 he died at Anvik. Small botanical collections in Nat. Herb., Washington. The specimens are mostly labelled »Alaska» only.
        1865-1895.     Dall, William Healey, accompanied KINNICOTT to Alaska in 1865 and visited Sitka, the Shumagin Is, Unalaska, St. Paul I. and St. Michael. He spent the years 1865-68 in the Yukon valley. In 1871-74 he surveyed the Alaskan coast from Sitka to the westernmost Aleutians, Nunivak and the Pribilof Is as a member of the Coast Survey. May 16, 1874, he collected at Lituya Bay, May 31 at Port Etches and June 11 at Semidi Is. In 1880 he visited Alaska, surveying the coast from Sitka to Unalaska and Point Barrow, and again in 1895 he travelled in Alaska. The fairly large collections are found in Nat. Herb., Washington, duplicates in Gray Herb. and other places. The specimens, which were originally labelled with date and place, now, at least in Nat. Herb., mostly bear the label »Alaska». The duplicates found in Gray Herb. are, however, usually well labelled.
        DALL wrote a book »Alaska and its resourccs» (Boston 1870), which has become a classical source of information concerning Alaska. lt includes a »List of useful plants indigenous in the territory of Alaska». He also published several other papers, some of which have an agricultural bearing (»Report upon the Agricultural resources of Alaska » in Rep. Dept. Agricult. 1868 and »Remarks upon the natural history of Alaska» in Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 12, 1869).
        1865.   Elliott, H. W., accompanied KENNICOTT and DALL, collected a few specimens at St. Paul I.

 

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