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of this simple remark, and, further, your attempt to wrest it into "discredit being 

 cast on Nansen," pass, with the rest of your unfounded criticism, into the thinnest 

 of thin air. 



Finally, should you feel moved, in the light of these statements of positive fact — 

 authority for every one of which I give — to reiterate the gross inaccuracies and 

 sinister imputations you have now twice seen fit to publish, I desire to take this 

 opportunity of at once saying that I have neither time nor taste for correcting 

 anonymous critics, and therefore, sir, I beg to bid you farewell. 



157 Strand, W.C. Arthur Montefiore Brice. 



[Our Review copy of " Farthest North " had not arrived when the March 

 number went to press. At any rate that book was not published when Mr. Brice's 

 paper was issued, and statements which may or may not be proved by it now, were 

 not proved then, and ought never to have been made on the incomplete authority of 

 anyone's private correspondence, quoting casual conversations. This is all the 

 " rhetoric " we expended, and we say again, accepting to the full the good faith of 

 Messrs. Brice and Jackson, such statements should not have been published by the 

 Royal Geographical Society. Fortunately we are now able to deal directly with 

 Nansen, and this we do in our Review on p. 268. Consequently we have great 

 pleasure in bidding a sincere " farewell " to Mr. Montefiore Brice. — Ed. Nat. Sci.] 



PS. — I submit herewith the map of Franz Josef Land, in which you will see 

 how my statements relative to Zichy Land, Markham Sound, and " the land to the 

 westward " are in every particular confirmed. 



This map also confirms my statements relative to the work of Mr. Jackson and 

 other explorers. 



The only point I have not cleared up in this map is your contention that Karl 

 Alexander Land is identical with the land on which Nansen wintered. The reason 

 why I do not is — first, that Nansen has himself abundantly proved in his map and 

 book that he did not winter on Karl Alexander Land ; and, secondly, because in this 

 composite map — which is practically identical with the one in the Geographical 

 Journal, on which you based your criticism— no attempt has been made to reconcile 

 at the points of contact Payer's map with Jackson's, or, indeed, to interfere in any 

 way with Payer's map where it does not touch Jackson's work. A. M. B. 



[We are in no way responsible for the names or statements on this map. Had 

 we made any addition to it, it would have been the explanation, prefi.xed by Mr. H. 

 Fisher to his " Remarks on the Flora of Franz Joseph Archipelago" appended to 

 Mr. Brice's oft-quoted paper : the explanation runs, " In this case I have not con- 

 sidered priority in names of importance." We need only add that we are indebted 

 to Mr. Brice for bearing most of the expense of this map, a courtesy for which we ■ 

 trust he will accept our thanks. — Ed. Nat. Sci.] 



We regret that communications from Messrs. Brooks, Cockerell, Collinson, 

 Goodrich, and Keegan should be crowded out of our Correspondence. 



Our usual NOTICE will be found on page iii. of wrapper. 



