Medical and Anthropological Notes on Alaska

The author states that the object of the paper "is to record, in a fragmentary way, some observations, as they have occurred to the writer during a late hyperborean experience, which afforded exceptional advantages for noting a few of the changes and variations that are brought about in the human economy by climatic influences and the environments of high latitudes..". In: Cruise of the Revenue-Steamer Corwin in Alaska and the N.W. Arctic Ocean in 1881. Notes and memoranda: medical and anthropological; botanical; ornithological.