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sohlnji" till' prohk'iii of tlie Drocess of laiid-inoldin^- uiiflcr a coiitimious, 

 niovinj;' ice caj), since t!ic process is not yet understood, and the " i;lacial 

 fringe" off the north coast of Grant Land offers a j)articuhirly interesting 

 field for study. Wiierever possible the expedition will collect Arctic small 

 mammals and fishes, for these are little represented in collections, and also 

 birds, for no habitat group of Arctic birds has been attempted in any of 

 our museums. 



The following is the itinerary as planned: The expedition will lea\'e 

 Sydney, Xova Scotia, by special steamer about July 20, 1912, procuring dogs 

 for th(> sledges on the way northward and whale and walrus meat. It will 

 land on the south side of Bache Peninsula (Flagler Bay), lat. 79° 10' X., 

 and will there establish winter quarters, sending the ship home. About the 

 middle of September sledging operations can l)egin for the purpose of getting 

 supplies to Cape Thomas Hubbard, which work can be carried on through- 

 out the winter during the moonlight periods. With the advent of dawn 

 in February, 1918, the journey will be made from Cape Thomas Hubbard 

 across the ice to Crocker Land. The return trip will be begun about ^Liy 

 first, and on reaching Cape Thomas Hubi)ard again, a messenger will be sent 

 to North Star Bay with news of the expedition, to be forwarded l)y Danish 

 steamer to civilization. After this, the scientific work will progress in Grant 

 Land and along the return route to the former winter quarters on Flagler 

 Bay, where arrival may be expected in July, 1913. Then during the summer, 

 supplies and collections will be transferre<l to Etah, from which ])oint the 

 expedition will move in the spring by way of Whale Sound (Inglefield 

 Gulf) directly eastward to the summit of the ice cap of Greenland, at the 

 widest part of that island. The return to New York is planned for the 

 autunm of 1914 and by special ship. 



The leaders of the expedition will be George Borup (A. B. Yale, 1907), 

 assistant curator of geology in the Museum, and Donald B. MacMillan (A. ^L 

 Bowdoin, 1910). They will take with them a competent physician, a cook 

 and a veteran general assistant. Messrs. Borup and MacMillan are well- 

 known to both the general and scientific public as members of the last polar 

 expedition under Admiral Peary, and through 'Slv. Borup's book, J Tender- 

 foot irifh Peari/ -dud Mr. ALicMillan's lectures given throughout the country. 

 These men have received Peary's un({ualified indorsement for the work 

 ui hand. Mr. Borup has been devoting his whole atti'ution during the past 

 two an(l a half years to studies in the field and at Yale thoroughly to fit him- 

 self for scientific geological and geographical exploration. He is a Fellow 

 of the Royal (Jeographical Society of London and a member of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences. Mr. MacMillan since his return from the Peary 

 expedition, has been studying I'thnology and practical astronomy at Harvard. 

 In the summer of 1910, he was a member of the Cabot Party which was 

 the first to cross Central Labrador from the sea to George Ri\er, and he 



