342 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1892. 



November 1. » 



The President, General Isaac J. Wistar, in the chair. 



Nine hundred and twenty persons present. 



A paper entitled " Eclogse Botanicse, Part I," by Edw. L. Greene 

 was presented for publication. 



The following report, succeeded by a lantern exhibition of a 

 collection of illustrative photographs with comments, was read by 

 the author : — 



REPORT OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE NORTH 

 GREENLAND EXPEDITION OF 1891-1892. 



To the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia : — 



I beg to submit the following Report of the North Greenland 

 Expedition of 1891-92. 



The history of the inception and organization of the expedition is 

 familiar to the Academy, and I need not revert to it here. 



The incidents of the upward and return voyages are also in the 

 Academy's possession through the reports of Professor Heilprin, the 

 commander of the two auxiliary expeditions, and my report to the 

 Academy from McCormick Bay, July 29th, 1891. I shall refer to 

 these briefly to make this report cover from start to finish. 



The " Kite" with the members of my own expedition : Dr. F. A. 

 Cook and Messrs. Verhoeff, Gibson and Astrup, and my colored 

 boy Henson, besides Mrs. Peary and myself; and Professor Heil- 

 prin's party : Drs. Sharp, Holt, Hughes, Burk and Keely, and 

 Messrs. Ashhurst, Mengel and Kennealy, moved out of her Brooklyn 

 dock at 5 P. M., Saturday, June 6th, 1891, and steamed up the East 

 River amid the general salutes of the shipping. On the afternoon of 

 the 11th, she entered Sydney, Cape Breton, to coal, and left again on 

 the evening of the 12th for Godhavn, North Greenland, via the Strait 

 of Belle Isle. After a vexatious delay of four days, in the ice which 

 was jammed in the Strait, the expedition arrived at Godhavn on 

 the morning of the 27th. Remaining liere until the afternoon of the 

 29th, to enable the members of the party to examine this interesting 

 locality, the "Kite" started northward again. Upernavik was 

 reached early in the morning of the 1st of July, and was left early 

 in the afternoon of the same day. 



