• Volume 1: Geology and Allied Subjects

  Preliminaries
  Snow, Ice, and Permafrost Glossary: Introductory Note
  Glossary of Snow, Ice, and Permafrost Terms
  Outline of the Economic Geology of Alaska
  Physiography of Alaska
  Stratigraphy and Geologic History of Alaska
  Explorations in Alaska by the United States Geological Survey
  Volcanoes of Alaska
  Earthquakes in the Arctic Area
  Meteorological Factors Affecting Variation of Glaciers Along the Alaskan Coast
  Geology of Arctic Canada
  Geology of Greenland
  Geology of Svalbard
  Geology of Siberia
  Geology of the European North, U.S.S.R.
  Geology of Novaya Zemlya
  Hydrology
  Glaciology
  Geophysics
  List of Figures
  
  

• Volume 2A: Permafrost-Engineering

  Preliminaries
  Permafrost as a Natural Phenomenon
  Engineering Problems and Construction in Permafrost Regions
  Physics of Ground Frost
  Soil Mechanics in Permafrost Regions
  Natural Cold Storage
  Civil Engineering
  List of Figures
  
  

• Volume 2B: Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

  Cautionary Remarks
  Effect of Extreme Arctic Cold on Materials
  Petroleum Products for Arctic Winter Use in Automotive Equipment
  Tractor-Type Transportation Units for Arctic Operation
  Sled-Type Transportation Equipment for Arctic Operations
  Analysis of Design Factors for Power, Heating, Ventilating, and Refrigeration Systems
  Power Plant Development and Electrical Transmission and Distribution Systems
  Mining Engineering
  Petroleum Engineering
  Sanitary Engineering
  List of Figures
  
  
  

• Volume 3: Zoology (Excluding Birds)

  Preliminaries
  Foreword
  Part 1: Terrestrial Zoology (Vertebrates and Invertebrates)
  Part II: Marine and Freshwater Zoology
  List of Figures
  
  

• Volume 4: Zoology (Birds)

  Preliminaries
  Economic Use of Birds in Alaska
  Economic Use of Birds in Greenland
  Migration of Northern Birds
  Bird Write-ups (Classification of Arctic Birds)
  

• Volume 5: Plant Sciences (General)

  Preliminaries
  Bacteria
  Algae
  Algae: Planktonic Groups
  Fungi
  Lichens
  Bryophytes
  Vascular plants
  Ecology and Physiology
  Paleobotany
  Various Topics
  List of Figures
  
  

• Volume 6: Plant Sciences (Regional)

  Preliminaries
  Canadian Eastern Arctic
  Flora and Vegetation between 55° and 60° N. in Quebec and Labrador
  Flora and Vegetation of Greenland
  Flora and Vegetation of Iceland
  Flora and Vegetation of Svalbard and Jan Mayen
  Phytogeography and Vegetation of the Soviet Arctic Region
  Phytogeography and Vegetation of the Bering Sea District
  Flora and Vegetation of Arctic Alaska, Yukon, and Northwestern Canada
  Vegetation of the Central and Southern Mackenzie River Basin
  Soils
  Economic Botany
  Agriculture and Horticulture
  List of Figures
  
  

• Volume 7: Meteorology and Oceanography

  Preliminaries
  The Meteorology of the Arctic Region
  Canadian Meteorology
  The Climate of the American Northlands
  United States Weather Bureau
  First International Polar Year (1882-83)
  Second International Polar Year (1932-33)
  Oceanography of the Arctic
  Arctic Sea Ice
  Submarines in the Polar Sea
  Arctic Tides
  The Uses of Ice
  Greenland Inland Ice Weather Stations
  The Ice of the Seas in the North American Arctic
  Daylight and Darkness in High Latitudes
  List of Figures
  
  

• Volume 8: Anthropology and Archeology

  Preliminaries
  The Pacific Eskimo
  Bering Sea and Arctic Coast Eskimos of Alaska
  The Copper Eskimos
  The Hudson Bay Eskimos
  Ethnology of the Greenland Eskimos
  The Aleuts
  The Indians (regions, peoples, cultures, archaeology)
  List of Figures
  
  

• Volume 9: Transportation and Communications

  Preliminaries
  Arctic Skin Boats
  Arctic Pioneer Craft
  Early Vessels in Arctic Exploration and Voyaging
  Design and Development of Arctic Trading Vessels
  The Development and Design of Arctic Whaling and Sealing Vessels
  Past and Present Coast Guard Vessels for the Arctic
  Water Transportation in the Canadian Shield
  Land and Ice (highways, railways, telegraph, telephone)
  Air (expansion, Canadian Pacific Air Lines, “bush" flying, airports and routes)
  List of Figures
  
  

• Volume 10: Soviet North, Geography and General

  Preliminaries
  Outline
  Lower Amur Oblast
  Arkhangelsk
  Kamchatka Territory
  Kandalaksha
  Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic (Karelia)
  Khabarovsk Territory
  Khibiny Mining and Industrial Combine
  Kirovsk
  Apatite, calcium fluophosphate (Kola Peninsula)
  Nepheline (Kola Peninsula)
  Sphene
  Koriak National Okrug
  Krasnoyarsk Krai
  Monchegorsk
  Nenets National Okrug
  Niva River
  Northern Dvina River
  Yakutia Territory
  Yamalo-Nenets National Okrug
  Khanty-Mansi (Ostyako-Vogul) National Region
  Evenki National Region
  Russian Hydrographical Expedition
  List of Figures
  

• Volume 11: Territorial Sovereignty and History

  Preliminaries
  Territorial Sovereignty in the Arctic
  Airspace Rights Over the Arctic
  History
  List of Figures
  
  

• Volume 12: Alaska, Geography and General

  Preliminaries
  Northern Alaska Geographical Items in alphabetical order
  St. Lawrence Island
  Nunivak Island
  The Aleutian Islands
  Mount McKinley
  Additional Alaska Geographical Items in alphabetical order
  General
  

• Volume 13: Canada, Geography and General

  Preliminaries
  Various Geographical Items
  Bylot Island
  General
  List of Figures
  
  

• Volume 14: Greenland, Svalbard, Etc. Geography and General

  Preliminaries
  Climate of Greenland
  The Voyage of Powell Knutson
  Whaling: Greenland and Davis Strait Fishery
  Greenland During and Since the Second World War
  Greenland Ovibos in Captivity and Under Domestication
  Ovibos in Northeast Greenland
  Svalbard: Geography
  Jan Mayen: Geography
  Geographical Items on East Greenland (alphabetical)
  Geographical Items on West Greenland (alphabetical)
  Geographical Items on North Greenland (alphabetical)
  
  

• Volume 15: Biographies

  Preliminaries Luigi Amedeo Abruzzi Roald Amundsen William Baffin Aleksandri Andrevich Baranov Frederick William Beechey Admiral Sir Edward Belcher Silas Bent Emil Bessels Stephen Borough Louis Arner Boyd Alfred H. Brooks William Spiers Bruce Richard Chancellor Aleksei Ilich Chirikov Henry B. Collins, Jr. Augustine Courtauld John Davis Peter Warren Dease Max Demarest Semen Dezhnev George Dixon Due d'Orleans George Mellis Douglas Carl Ben Eielson Otto Febricius Jane Franklin Sir John Franklin W. A. Graah Adolphus Washington Greely Charles Wesley Hawkesworth Samuel Hearne William Herbert Hobbs Gustav Frederick Holm William Lauriston Howard Henry W. Howgate George Kennan Richard King Frane Reinhold Kjellman Lauge Koch J.F.G. Laperouse Martin Lindsay George Francis Lyon Sir Alexander Mackenzie John Meares Walter Curran Mendenhell Gerhard Friedrich Mueller Alexander F. Middendorf Jens Munk Sir George Strong Nares Sir William Edward Parry Josephine Diebitsch Peary Robert Edwin Peary Emile Fortune Stanislas Joseph Petitot Pytheas Alfred de Quervain Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov Sir John Richardson Henrik Johannes Rink John Rodgers William Scoresby, Junior Charles Sheldon Grigor Ivanich Shelekhov Sir George Simpson Tomas Simpson Georg Wilhelm Steller G. M. Stoney Harald U. Sverdrup John Cleves Symmes James Williams Tyrrell Joseph Burr Tyrrell George Vancouver Baron Eduard Vasilievich von Toll Gino Watkins Sir Hubert Wilkins John Wilkins Sir Hugh Willoughy James M. Wordie