22 THE JEANNETTE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. 



seat of national wealth and extended commerce, we desire to 

 foster scientific enlightenment; and this Chamber views with 

 marked interest an enterprise of national importance, sailing 

 from its Golden Gate, fully equipped with a picked band of 

 brave and resolute men possessed of Arctic experience, whom 

 we feel are capable of winning a successful and glorious rec- 

 ord for the nation whose banner floats over them, and whose 

 blessing goes with them. While recognizing with admiration 

 the fact that this expedition is wholly paid for and supported 

 by private munificence, we rejoice that this enterprise is offi- 

 cially endorsed by the United States government, who accord 

 it the national rights necessary to proper discipline, and the 

 suitable dignity intrusted by a great and growing nation 

 whose knowledge it will increase, and to whose honor it will 

 redound. Asa national work it will extend the geograph- 

 ical survey and topographical knowledge of our northern 

 boundary; in the interests of commerce, navigation, and na- 

 tional agriculture it may determine laws of meteorology, 

 hydrography, astronomy, and gravitation, reveal ocean cur- 

 rents, develop new fisheries, discover lands and people hith- 

 erto unknown ; and by extending the world's knowledge of 

 such fundamental principles of earth-life as magnetism and 

 electricity, and various collateral branches of atmospheric 

 science, solve great problems important to our common 

 humanity. 



"Resolved : That as the well-merited offering of an appecia- 

 tive nation, our people would most heartily approve of and 

 endorse the use of a national vessel to convoy the Jeannette 

 to her most northern port of departure, whence, leaving the 

 shores of solemn pine, she will traverse the northern seas 

 alone, followed by the earnest hopes of friends to progress 

 and the world of science. 



"Resolved : That we tender to her brave and accomplished 

 commander, Lieutenant George W. DeLong, United States 

 Navy, to his efficient staff of able specialists in various de- 

 partments of science, and to his hardy and gallant crew, one 



