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planets, and moon; long exposures of snow houses and 

 Eskimo villages; flash-lights of visiting Eskimos; while 

 negatives made during the summer may be classified, 

 indexed, and packed away for transportation. During 

 the fifteen hundred days in the North I exposed, devel- 

 oped, and filed five thousand negatives. 



(2) Meteorology. During the first two years, baro- 

 metric and thermometric readings, also cloud percentage 

 and force and direction of wind, were recorded every 

 hour. During the last two years barographs and ther- 

 mographs were recorded every second of the time. 



(3) Zoology. Darkness and low temperatures mili- 

 tate to some extent against the handling of equipment 

 necessary in the collecting of zoological specimens be- 

 neath the ice of fiord, ponds, and lakes. However, it 

 can be done and has been done most successfully. The 

 fact that conditions are so adverse to life only increases 

 one's curiosity and interest; and we also have with us 

 for study the larger forms of life, such as the raven, owl, 

 hare, fox, caribou, musk-oxen, white wolf, walrus, white 

 whale, narwhale, and four varieties of seal. 



(4) Ethnology. Here is a tremendous field. The 

 hours of every single day could be expended in noting 

 the tales and traditions of the Smith Sound native; in 

 studying the very diflScult language; in anthropometric 

 measurements; in jotting on the Sargent chart the phys- 

 ical development of both men and women; and in 

 recording their music, their amusements, their philos- 

 ophy, and their religion. 



Other absorbing interests I need only mention by 

 name: Magnetism, seismology, practical astronomy, 

 tidal observations, measurement and growth of the sea 

 ice, and temperature records. 



