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sea between Spit/beriioii mid Nova Zembla. J>y liis observations on 

 this journey he traced the intliience of the Gulf Stream water east of 

 JSpit/beitjeii and added nnieli to the scanty knowhidge of tliis region 

 then avaihible. In 1870 he was called to the Held as military surgeon, 

 rendering services in the Hospitals, which brought him a public com- 

 mendation from the Grand Didie of Baden. In 1871 he came to America 

 at retermann's suggestion to join Hall's Polar Expedition as naturalist 

 and surgeon. Most of the scientitic results of this voyage were the fruit 

 of his personal efforts. After the rescue of the survivors he returned 

 to America, where for some years he was busy at the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution in prei)aring for pul)lic;ation the scientitic results of the voy- 

 age, one of the most striking of which was the proof lirst brought out 

 by him of the insularity of Greenland, which he deduced from the tidal 

 observations secured on the expedition. In 1S7() his work was printed 

 in (juaito, under the title of "lieport on the Scientific Kesults of the 

 Polaris Exi)edition." Three years later he published through Eugle- 

 niann, at Leipzig, a German narrative of the expedition, illustrated 

 largely Irom his own very artistic sketches. He projected a work on the 

 Eskimo, to which he devoted much labor. An ethnological voyage 

 undertaken on the United States steamer kS(ira)iac to the northwest 

 (;oast of America was iirematurely terminated by the wreck of that 

 vessel in Seymour Narrows. British Columbia. He returned to Wash- 

 ington, where he prepared several contributions to Arctic and zoolog- 

 ical liteiature. Through an unfortunate tire at his residence he lost his 

 library, manuscripts, and collections in 1885, and subse(piently returned 

 to Germany, where he settled at Siuttgart. Here he was engaged in 

 literary ])ursuits, the study of art, and in geogiaidiical instruction. 

 He died atter a short illness, Marcih 30, 1888, and his remains were in- 

 teired in the Cemetery, at Heidelberg'. 

 Itespeclfully submitted. 



S. P. L ANGLE Y, 



Secretary of ISinithsoniaii Institution. 



