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The Special Great Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society 

 of Washington. 



The Special Gold Medal of the Philadelphia Geographical 

 Society. 



The Helen Culver Medal of the Chicago Geographical Society. 



The Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from Bowdoin College. 



The Special Great Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical 

 Society of London. 



The Nachtigall Gold Medal of the Imperial German Geograph- 

 ical Society. 



The King Humbert Gold Medal of the Royal Italian Geographical 



Society. 

 The Hauer Medal of the Imperial Austrian Geographical Society. 

 The Gold Medal of the Hungarian Geographical Society. 

 The Gold Medal of the Royal Belgian Geographical Society. 

 The Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society of Antwerp. 

 iA Special Trophy from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society 



— a replica in silver of the ships used by Hudson, Baffin, and 



The Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from the Edinburgh 



University. . . 



Honorary Membership in the Manchester Geographical Society. 

 Honorary Membership in the Royal Netherlands Geographical 



Society of Amsterdam. 



i At Edinburgh, at the conclusion of the address to the Royal Scottish Geo- 

 graphical Society, Lord Balfour of Burleigh presented to Commander Peary a 

 Tver model of a ship such as was used by illustrious arctic navigate, in the olden 

 W The ship is a copy of a three-masted vessel in fnU sail such as was in use 

 n the latter part of the sixteenth century. The mode i. , a beautiful specimen 

 3 he silversmith's art. On one of the sails is engraved the badge of the Royal 

 Scottish Geographical Society, while another bears the inscription in Latm from 

 the oen of Mr. W. B. Blaikie, which, translated, is as follows: 



^his model of a ship, such as was used by John Davis, Henry Hudson, and 

 William Baffin, illustrious arctic navigators of the olden time has been presented 

 by he Royal Scottish Geographical Society as an evidence of its congratula ion, 

 admiration, and recognition to Robert Edwin Peary, American citizen, an explorer 

 ofTe frozen Arctic, not less daring than his daring predecessors, who was the 

 first to attain to that thrice-noble goal so long sought by innumerable bold manners, 

 the North Pole. Edinburgh, May 24th, 1910." 



