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plished his arduous mission. He not only ascertained the death of Franklin, 

 and the subsequent abandonment of his ships, but also showed that the great 

 navigator had discovered vast breadths of Arctic lands and seas which were 

 entirely unknown when he left our shores, and had remained so until the truth 

 was revealed by the expedition of the Fox. 



The geographer who compares the map of the Arctic regions as laid down by 

 Parry and others up to the year 1845, when Franklin sailed, and marks on it 

 all that he is now known to have added in the two brief summers before he 

 was beset, and then inspects any one of the most recent maps, even up to 

 the year 1858 inclusive, and traces the discoveries made by M'Clintock and 

 his associates, Hobson, Young, and Walker, will see what vast additions to 

 geographical knowledge have been made by the last expedition of Lady 

 Franklin. 



Such services are indeed worthy of the highest national reward, and I have, 

 I am happy to say, reason to know that a monument in commemoration 

 of the glorious deeds of Franklin and of his having been the first to discover a 

 North-West Passage will be erected, and that the officers and crew of the Fox 

 will receive that recompense to which they are so justly entitled at the hands 

 of their admiring countrymen. 



Whilst on this subject I may well express the satisfaction and pride I feel, 

 as the President of this Section, that the officers of the British Association have 

 asked us, the Geographers, to bring forward one of our distinguished men to 

 deliver a lecture on some one of our manifold subjects before the body of men of 

 science assembled at Oxford. As this is the second* occasion since our 

 foundation on which geographical discovery has been considered to be of suffi- 

 cient scientific importance to occupy the attention of the whole meeting, I rejoice 

 in the fact, and also in the knovv'ledge that Captain Sherard Osborn, so well 

 known to us through his charming ' Arctic Stray Leaves,' and other books, as 

 well as by his laurels won in the Crimea, the Sea of Azof, and in China, is to 

 be the lecturer, and that he who is so experienced an iceman is to give us a 

 sketch of the discoveries of Franklin, as laid open by the last researches of 

 Sir Leopold M'Clintock. 



And here I may well say that every justice will be done to any subject 

 connected with the condition of icy seas, including the proposed submarine 

 telegi-aph by the Faroe Islands, Iceland, and Greenland to Labrador ; for 

 never at any of our former meetings have I seen so many explorers met 

 together who have rendered their names eminent through Arctic and Ant- 

 arctic discoveries. Under their observation the paper which is to be brought 

 before us by Captain Parker Snow of the merchant marine, warmly urging 

 a further search to recover the precious scientific records of the Erebus and 

 Terror, will be ably scrutinised. The names of Admiral Sir James Ross, 

 Sir Edward Belcher, Captains Ommaney and Sherard Osborn, when united 

 with those of Sir J. Richardson and Dr. Eae, are truly guarantees that the 

 question will have so much light thrown upon it as will either satisfy the 

 public that no additional important results as respects the lost expedition can 

 be achieved, or will stimulate us to fresh exertions. For, though all the Arctic 

 voyagers with whom I have conversed are satisfied that there is now no hope of 

 saving a human life, still every man of science must wish that strenuous 

 efforts should still be made to recover, if possible, some more of the many 

 scientific records of the lost expedition which may have been left in various 

 places around the spot where Franklin breathed his last. 



In the vast i)ossessions of British North America much additional knowledge 

 has been gained by the successful explorations of Palliser and his associates 



* At the Dublin Meeting (1857), our Associate Dr. Livingstone lectured on his 

 great African discoveries. 



