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than a day, brought away the expedition with the record 

 of 84.17 North (the highest on the Western Continent), 

 in May, 1902. The part}^ Hbrary, instruments, and 

 all the remaining equipment of the Lady Franklin 

 Bay Expedition arrived at Sydney, C. B., Septem- 

 ber 5th. 



The founders of the Club were: Morris K. Jesup, 

 Henry W. Cannon, James J. Hill, John M. Flagler, 

 Frederick E. Hyde, E. C. Benedict, H. Hayden Sands, 



A. A. Raven, Henry Parish, Eben B. Thomas, James 

 M. Constable, Herbert L. Bridgman, Henry H. Bene- 

 dict, and Eliphalet W. Bliss. 



Full contributing members, Edward G. Wyckoff 

 and Clarence W. Wyckoff, of Ithaca, N. Y., and Grant 



B. Schley, of New York, were in 1899 elected to mem- 

 bership in the club, and President Charles P. Daly, 

 of the American Geographical Society, to its executive 

 committee, in recognition of the contribution by the 

 Society. 



1904— 190— (?) 



The Charter of the Peary Arctic Club, April 19, 

 1904, recites that the objects of the incorporation are 

 "to aid and assist in forming and maintaining cer- 

 tain expeditions to be placed under Commander Robert 

 E. Peary, U. S. N., with the object of continuing his 

 explorations of the Polar Regions and completing the 

 geographical data of the same, receiving and collecting 

 such objects of scientific interest as may be obtainable 

 through such expeditions; collecting, receiving, and 

 preserving narratives and manuscripts relating to 

 Arctic explorations in general; soliciting and adminis- 



