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Reliable Seed Produce Beautiful Flowers is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks n...

Excerpt from An Arctic Province: Alaska and the Seal IslandsScores of weighty volumes, hundreds of pamphlets and mag azine articles, and a thousand newspaper letters, have been devoted to the subject of Alaskan life, scenery, and value. In contempla tion of this, viewed from the author's standpoint of extended per sonal experience, he announces his determination to divest him self of all individuality in the following chapters, to portray in w...

Excerpt from A Report Upon the Condition of in the Territory of AlaskaIn connection with my survey of affairs in the Territory, the Seal Islands in especial, I have been most fortunate in being associated with a gentleman so efficient and conscientious as Lieut. Washburn Maynard, the officer selected by the Secre tary of the Navy, in compliance with the act of Congress, to accompany me on this tour Of investigation, and to report in dependentl...

Excerpt from The History and Present Condition of the Fishery Industries: The Seal-Islands of AlaskaBering, not Behring 36. The law protecting the seal-islands 37. The organization and regulations of the Alaska Commercial Company Comments upon the legislation of Congress Paragraphs of reference relative to subjects discussed in the preceding memoir, and referred to as Note 39.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands o...

Excerpt from Profiles, Sections and Other Illustrations: Designed to Accompany the Final Report of the Chief Geologist of the Survey and Sketched Under His DirectionsAre issued in advance of the text, for the purpose of placing them in the hands of the principal geologists in this country and in Europe. The first edition of two thousand copies, in colors, will be published with descriptive text in about one year. In the mean time every effort ...

Excerpt from Profiles, Sections and Other Illustrations: Designed to Accompany the Final Report of the Chief Geologist of the Survey and Sketched Under His DirectionsAre issued in advance of the text, for the purpose of placing them in the hands of the principal geologists in this country and in Europe. The first edition of two thousand copies, in colors, will be published with descriptive text in about one year. In the mean time every effort ...

Excerpt from A Statement Submitted in Re the Fur-Seal Herd of Alaska: To the House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of CommerceWhat was and is the cause of this practical extinction of the virile male life on the breeding grounds of the Pribilof Islands?It is due wholly to the killing of all the young male seals that the lessees could annually find on the islands, first begun in 1896, in violation of regulations or the Carlisle rule...

Excerpt from An Arctic Province: Alaska and the Seal Islands If the writer could materialize in the reader's mind that large aggregate of printed matter now stacked on book-shelves and filed in newspaper columns, which has been published to the world during the last eighty years upon Alaska, the effect would certainly be startling. Scores of weighty volumes, hundreds of pamphlets and magazine articles, and a thousand newspaper letters, have ...

Excerpt from A Statement Submitted in Re the Fur-Seal Herd of Alaska: To the House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of CommerceWhat was and is the cause of this practical extinction of the virile male life on the breeding grounds of the Pribilof Islands?It is due wholly to the killing of all the young male seals that the lessees could annually find on the islands, first begun in 1896, in violation of regulations or the Carlisle rule...

Excerpt from The History and Present Condition of the Fishery Industries: The Seal-Islands of Alaska It was with peculiar pleasure that the writer undertook, at the suggestion of Professor Baird, who is the honored and beloved secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the task of examining into and reporting upon this subject, and it is also gratifying to add, that the statements of fact and the hypotheses evolved therefrom by him in 1874, ha...

Excerpt from A Report Upon the Condition of in the Territory of Alaska Sir: In compliance with the provisions of the act of Congress approved April 12, 1874, I have the honor to submit the following report upon the condition and importance of the far-trade in the Territory of Alaska, "the present condition of the seal-fisheries of Alaska, the haunts and habits of the seal, the preservation and extension of the fisheries as a source of revenue...

Henry W. Elliott presented Our Arctic Province, his comprehensive book on Alaska, in 1886, two years after the publication of his groundbreaking report The Seal Islands of Alaska. Elliott's wide-ranging work reveals the breathtaking panorama of the rugged country. He details the incredible wildlife, the native inhabitants, weather, glaciers, and the effects of man and his settlements on this amazing territory. A noted artist and naturalist, he...