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Antarctic expedition, and is now second in com- 

 mand with Captain Sir John Franklin. 



John Brunton, the colleague of Crozier in this 

 voyage, arrived at no higher step than that of 

 Lieutenant, and is now serving as such in the 

 Coast Guard. 



C. Richards and Horatio Nelson Head, mid- 

 shipmen, do not appear on the list of naval officers. 



Berkley Westropp, midshipman, was made a 

 Lieutenant in 1825, and still continues so, having left 

 the navy for a civil employment in the Humane 

 Society. 



Edward Bird appears on the list as a Captain of 

 1843, but he is not to be found among the Arctic 

 voyagers. 



Alan M'Laren was appointed surgeon of a ship 

 of the line. 



William Harvey Hooper, purser, was the friend 

 and associate of Captain Parry, and served with 

 him in the Alexander in Ross's voyage, and in all 

 the three of Parry, a most faithful and trust- worthy 

 officer; and was rewarded for his services bv a 

 civil appointment in Greenwich Hospital, where 

 he died ; and his widow is- now matron of the 

 Greenwich Schools. 



The ships sailed from the Nore on the 19th May, 

 1824 ; the William Harris, transport, accompanying 

 them. Their instructions were to make the best of 

 their way to Davis's Strait and cross over to Lan- 



