David Starr Jordan

United States National Museum

Heinrich Franz Alexander Baron von Eggers

Theodore Gill

Ludwig Kumlien

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

Catalogue of the Collection to Illustrate the Animal Resources and the Fisheries of the United States

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.

Ludwig Kumlien

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