THE REORGANIZED CROCKER LAND EXPEDITION 



ANNOUNCEMENT BY EDMUND OTIS HOVEY, CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE IN 



CHARGE 



THE Crocker Land expedition has been reorganized, as was necessi- 

 tated by the lamentable death by drowning April 28 last of its 

 leader, Mr. George Borup, which was recorded in the May Journal. 

 Mr. D. B. MacMillan, who was to be coleader with Mr. Borup, has been 

 made leader and is to take with him as large a scientific staff as may be 

 permitted by the funds available. Mr. MacMillan, besides having general 

 charge of all the work of the expedition, will devote himself particularly to 

 anthropology and meteorology. Mr. W. Elmer Ekblaw of the University 

 of Illinois has been selected as geologist and biologist, and Ensign Fitzhugh 

 Green has been detailed from the United States Navy to duty on the 

 expedition. He will be an assistant in geology and glaciology and will take 

 care of a portion of the map work. The chief topographer of the expedi- 

 tion has not j^et been appointed, nor has the surgeon been selected, although 

 there are applicants for both positions. The surgeon will be expected to do 

 some of the biological work for which plans have been made. The party 

 will probably also include in its complement of white men a general scientific 

 assistant to look after meteorological, seismological and other instruments, 

 besides a general assistant to serve as cook and mechanician. 



The reorganized Crocker Land expedition therefore has a thoroughly 

 high-grade nucleus for its scientific staff, and its success seems assured. 

 The hearty cooperation of the Navy Department is an indorsement that is 

 highly appreciated. Its financial position was impaired however by the 

 heavy expenditures made necessary by the postponement of its departure, 

 and additional subscriptions of about SI 5,000 are needed to carry out the 

 plans and bring the party safely back to New York. 



After exploring Crocker Land for one or two seasons, as circumstances 

 may determine, the party will divide, one portion going southwestward from 

 Cape Thomas Hubbard to explore the region north of the Parry Islands and 

 connect with the third Stefansson expedition, coming home by way of Ber- 

 ing Strait. The other subdivision, after completing the coast-line work 

 from the northern extremity of Axel Heiberg Land eastward along the 

 northwestern coast of Grant Land, will return to Flagler Bay and will 

 make a journey from Inglefield Gulf to the summit of the Greenland ice 

 cap, if circumstances are favorable. 



A revised prospectus giving more in detail the plans of the reorganized 

 expedition will be issued shortly. 



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