THE PERSONNEL OF THE CROCKER LAND 



EXPEDITION 



By Edmund Otis Hovey 



THE organizing institutions of the Crocker Land expedition consider 

 themselves fortunate in the personnel of the staff and congratulate 

 the scientific world at large upon the results that may reasonably 

 be expected to flow from the energy that has been and is to be put into the 

 enterprise. 



The leader of the party, Donald B. MacMillan, who was coleader with 

 George Borup of the expedition as originally planned, won his spurs in 

 Arctic work as one of Admiral Peary's trusted lieutenants during the suc- 

 cessful quest of the North Pole in 1908-1909, traveling more than two 

 thousand miles with dog team along northern shores, even to the most 

 northern point of land in the world, Cape Morris Jesup. It was from this 

 point that MacMillan and Borup made their record march covering 336 

 miles in eight days. Mr. MacMillan is a graduate, A. B. and Honorary 

 A. M., of Bowdoin College. He has spent the three and one-half years since 

 his return from the Arctic in studying, lecturing and traveling. The sum- 

 mers of 1910 and 1912 were spent in exploratory, ornithological and archaeo- 

 logical work in and along the coast of Labrador. The year 1910-1911 and 

 the past autumn and winter have been spent at Harvard University working 

 in anthropology and practical astronomy. Mr. MacMillan is of Scotch 

 Ancestry and was born in Massachusetts thirty-seven years ago. 



W. Elmer Ekblaw was born in Illinois and is thirty years old His 

 portrait shows him as he is, strong, sturdy, self-reliant and reliable, as befits 

 his Scandinavian ancestry. He took his degrees A. B. and A. M. in course 

 -at the University of Illinois, specializing in geology, botany and ornithology. 

 He is a valued instructor in geology at his Alma Mater. He has done much 

 iield work in that science and will have charge of the geological and botanical 

 w r ork of the expedition. 



Ensign Fitzhugh Green, U. S. N., graduated at the Naval Academy, 

 Annapolis, four years ago, when he was only twenty years of age. He was 

 born in Missouri of old Colonial stock and received his appointment to the 

 Academy from that State. Mr. Green's experience has been largely at sea, 

 where his duties concerned navigation and all the complicated machinery of 

 a battleship. He was in command of a turret on the "Michigan" and has 

 likewise done mapping of coast lines. He has been taking special studies 

 during the past year in cartography, meteorology, seismology, terrestrial 

 magnetism and wireless telegraphy in Washington, D. C. and will have 

 charge of these branches of the expedition work. His experience in the 

 navy has already taught him how to command as well as to obey. 



Maurice C. Tanquary is a Wisconsin boy, although his parents and his 

 grandparents for several generations were born in New England. He was 



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