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Catalogue of the Collection to Illustrate the Animal Resources and the Fisheries of the United States
Exhibited at Philadelphia in 1876 by the Smithsonian Institution and the United States Fish Commission, and Forming a Part of the United States National Museum
by David Starr Jordan, Heinrich Franz Alexander Baron von Eggers, Ludwig Kumlien, Theodore Gill, United States National Museum ยท 1877
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Page count: 351
The primary object of the expedition, by Captain Howgate's order, was to collect material, skins, skin clothing, dogs, sledges, and Eskimo, for the use of a future colony on the shores of Lady Franklin Bay. The secondary object of the expedition was scientific work; and thirdly, whaling was to be one feature of the cruise.