Copyright by Douhleday, Page and Company 

 Last view of the sun in the country where for four months of the twelve exploration work 

 must proceed in darkness 



GEOGRAPHICAL EXPLORATION AND THE MUSEUM 



Quotations from an address by henry fairfield osborn who as 

 president of the american museum of natural history and member 

 of the honorary committee of the crocker land expedition, pre- 

 sided at the polar celebration of april 5, the third anniversary 



OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE NORTH POLE. ThE ADDRESS WAS DELIVERED 

 BEFORE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL, PHILADELPHIA AND AMERICAN 

 GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETIES, OF THE AMERICAN MITSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 

 THE PEARY ARCTIC CLUB, AND REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NORWEGIAN AND 

 DANISH GOVERNMENTS 



THE Crocker Land expedition will be the se\enth expedition leaving 

 the harbor of New York for north polar seas. The second Grinnell 

 expedition, in search of Sir John Franklin, which was commanded 

 by Elisha Kent Kane, sailed from New York, May 30, 1853. Charles 

 Francis Hall left New York in the "Polaris" .Inly 3, 1871, in command of 

 an expedition to the North Pole. He died in the Arctics in November, 

 1871. George Washington de Long was born in New York City and was 

 in command of the "Jeannette" expedition in 1879 which was financed by 

 James Gordon Hennett. Lieutenant de Long (Wvd in Siberia in October, 

 1881. His body and those of his companions were discovered by Chief 

 Engineer George W. Melville. The Greely relief expedition in 1884 sailed 



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