Research Catalog

Title

Arctic geography and ethnology. : A selection of papers on Arctic geography and ethnology / Reprinted, and presented to the Arctic expedition of 1875, by the president, council, and fellows of the Royal Geographical Society.

Author

Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)

Publication

London : J. Murray, 1875.

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Description

xii, 292 pages : illustrations, folded maps; 22 cm

Subject

• Eskimos > Greenland
• Eskimo languages
• Arctic regions
• Greenland > Description and travel

Note

• "Language of the Eskimo of Greenland": p. 189-203; "List of names of places in Greenland": p. 204-229.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Geography. I. On the physical structure of Greenland. By Dr. Robert Brown.--II. On the best means of reaching the pole. By Admiral Baron von Wrangel.--III. On the discoveries of Dr. Kane, U.S.A. (1853-55) By Dr. Rink.--IV. The Arctic current around Greenland. By Admiral C. Irminger of the Danish navy.--V. Notes on the state of the ice, and on the indications of open water from Behring Strait to Bellot Strait, along the coasts of Arctic America and Siberia, including the accounts of Anjou and Wrangell. By Vice-Admiral R. Collinson. Ethnology. I. Papers on the Greenland Eskimos. By Clements R. Markham.--II. On the descent of the Eskimo. By Dr. Rink.--III. The western Eskimo. By Dr. Simpson.--IV. Report of the Anthropological Institute.

LCCN

05042714

OCLC

• ocm02358927
• SCSB-3940573

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries