THE WORK OF THE SOUTHERN SECTION OF 

 THE EXPEDITION 



[The following brief summary of the work of the southern sub- 

 division of our expedition is condensed from the admirable "Report of 

 the Southern Division of the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913," in 

 the Report of the Department of the Naval Service for the Fiscal Year 

 ending March 31, 1917, published at Ottawa in 1917, and is used here 

 by the kind permission of the Department. This was written by 

 Dr. Rudolph Martin Anderson, second in command of the expedition 

 and in local charge of the southern section. Although the men of 

 the scientific staff under him were by training competent and by 

 nature diligent. Dr. Anderson deserves not only full credit for what 

 he did as zoologist but also in part for what the other scientists 

 did in their various departments. The example, cooperation and sym- 

 pathy of the commanding officer is reflected both in the volimie and 

 quality of the staff's scientific output. 



[An attempt has been made to preserve in general Dr. Anderson's 

 phraseology and marshaling of facts, but this is difficult in cutting 

 the statement to a third of its original length. Much information of 

 value, especially geological and topographic — descriptions of rock for- 

 mations, altitudes of land forms, distances — has been omitted. The 

 excuses are (1) that Dr. Anderson will probably publish eventually his 

 own "popular" narrative; (2) the report which we have condensed is ob- 

 tainable free by writing to the Department of Naval Service, Ottawa, 

 Canada; (3) the same Department will publish in due course Dr. An- 

 derson's full narrative of the Southern Section; and (4) the various 

 specialists whose work Dr. Anderson summarizes will in their turn 

 (and some have already) publish their detailed findings through the 

 official Reports of the Canadian Arctic Expedition. Of these, sixteen 

 volumes are in preparation or already published. It is hoped that 

 eventually the full scientific report of the expedition will comprise 

 several more volumes.* 



[After summarizing the organization of the expedition and the 

 progress of it, including the wintering of the Alaska at Collinson 

 Point, Dr. Anderson continues his report as follows :] 



John J. O'Neill started from Collinson Point with two assistants 

 in February to begin geological work by a reconnaissance of Firth 



* These scientific reports can be secured by writing to the Deputy Minister, 

 Department of Naval Service, Ottawa. Under certain conditions, libraries and 

 institutions can secure these reports free. 



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