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Besides this, I derived much benefit from his comprehensive
knowledge of Siberia, obtained on travels in the same regions where
Bering had been. He has had the kindness to examine the
collection of charts and maps in both the Admiralty and Imperial
libraries, and secure for me some valuable copies. He has also, at
my request, examined a series of articles in periodicals containing
notices of Bering’s geographical enterprise.
It is only by means of this valuable assistance that I have
succeeded in basing this biographical sketch on Russian literature, and
putting it, as I hope, on a par with what has been written on this
subject by Russian authors.
Of the many others that in one way or another have seconded
my efforts in giving as valuable a biography of my renowned
fellow-countryman as possible, I owe special thanks—not to mention the
Hielmstierne-Rosencrone Institution—to Mr. Hegel, the veteran
publisher, Col. Hoskier, Dr. Karl Verner, instructor in Sclavonic
languages at the University of Copenhagen, who has examined some
very difficult archival matter for me, Professor Alexander
Vasilievich Grigorieff, Secretary of the Imperial Russian Geographical
Society, and to Mr. E. W. Dahlgren, Secretary of the Swedish
Society for Anthropology and Geography. P. L.
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