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sary for the purpose of the association; and further 

 to command in its work the resources of mutual 

 acquaintance and social intercourse;" declaring that 

 contributors to the expedition, including those absent, 

 were Founders of the Club and elected the following 

 officers: President, Morris K. Jesup; Vice-President, 

 Frederick E. Hyde; Treasurer, Henry W. Cannon; 

 Secretary, Herbert L. Bridgman. Alfred C. Harms- 

 w^orth (Lord Northcliffe) was elected an Honorary 

 Member of the Club in recognition of his gift of the 

 Windward to Commander Peary. 



The Club despatched the steamer Diana, Captain 

 Samuel W. Bartlett of St. John, N. F., in command of its 

 Secretary, H. L. Bridgman, from Sydney, C. B., on July 

 27, 1899, whither she returned on September 15th, hav- 

 ing in the meantime successfully accomplished her mis- 

 sion in depositing at Etah her stores, effecting a junction 

 with Commander Peary at Etah on August 12 th, and 

 returning with her consort, the Windward, which had 

 wintered at Cape D'Urville, EUesmere Land. The Wind- 

 ward, preceding the Diana one week in her departure 

 from Etah, arrived at Brigus, N. F., two days earlier, 

 having on board the scientific records and personal 

 effects of each officer and man of the Lady Franklin 

 Bay Expedition; the sextant abandoned in 1876 by 

 Lieutenant, now Rear-Admiral, Albert Beaumont, 

 R. N. at Cape Britannia, Greenland, and copies of the 

 Nares-Markham records from the cairns of Norman 

 Lockyer and Washington Irving islands, all recovered 

 by Commander Peary in 1898 and 1899. The personal 

 effects were subsequently distributed by the Club to 

 the survivors and next of kin of the deceased, and the 



