MAJOR GENERAL A. W. GREELY 



UNITED STATES ARMY, RETIRED 



Commander of the International Polar Expedition, engaged in scientific work, 1881-84, at Lady 

 Franklin Bay. His expedition attained the "farthest north" of that time and discovered the most north- 

 erly land — the latter achievement exceeded in thirty-five years by only one explorer, Peary. 



Enlisting in the Civil War, where he was thrice wounded, he reached the rank of captain and of 

 brevet major. Appointed in the regular army, he was the first enlisted man to reach the grade of 

 brigadier general, becoming successively chief signal officer and major general. In addition to being the 

 author of many scientific publications, he has constructed more than twenty thousand miles of telegraph 

 lines, including war lines in Cuba, China, and the Philippines, as well as the system of four thousand 

 miles of aerial, cable, and wireless lines in Alaska. In recent years his administration of San Francisco 

 relief operations at the time of the earthquake and fire, and service as military ambassador at the corona- 

 tion of King George, have been important items among the duties that have fallen to him. In connection 

 with his interest in the flora and fauna of polar lands, see pp. 358 to 425, Vol. II, of Three Years of 

 Arctic Service, for his personal work on the plants and animals of Grinnell Land 



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