A third work, which if the expedition has time will be of the greatest 

 interest and importance, both to geographers and oceanographers, will be 

 the running of deep-sea soundings northward beyond the edge of the con- 

 tinental shelf from various points on the coasts of Greenland and Grant 



Land, extending from Cape Morris 

 K. Jesup on the east to Cape Thomas 

 Hubbard on the west (some seventy 

 degrees of longitude). These sound- 

 ings will determine the limits of the 

 continental shelf and the proximity 

 of oceanic depths to the land. I 

 should suggest a series of such sound- 

 ings running north from Cape Thomas 

 Hubbard, Cape Colgate, Cape Rich- 

 ards, Cape Joseph Henry, Cape 

 Hryant, Cape Washington and Cape 

 Hridgman, supplementing those made 

 by the last expedition of the Peary 

 Arctic Club from Cape Columbia and 

 ( 'ape Morris K. Jesup. 



The American Museum is to be 

 congratulated upon its initiative in 

 making it possible for this expedition 

 to go into the field, and it is to be 



