1 PreUminary Chapter. 



Hayos, I. I. The Open Polar Sea. Narrative of a Voyage of discovery in the 



ScLooner United States. S©. New Yorlv, 1800. 

 Osboru, Admiral Sberard, II. N. The Career, last voyage, and fate of Franklin. 



8^. London, 1800. 

 Malte Jliiui. A'. A. La destin6e do Franklin devolle^. 8o. Paris, 1860. 

 I'.rown, J. The X. W. Passage and the i)lans for the Search for Sir J. Franklin. 



8=^. London, 1800. This work contains a satisfactory review of both snb- 



jects, inclnding the resnlts of IMcClintock's voyage. 



Official reports of the English expeditions, including such as those made by 

 1 >i . line and by Anderson who brought the first ncAvs of Franklin's expedition, and 

 other returns which have not appeared in the form of narratives, Avill be found in 

 the Parliamentary Papers,beginning with the Instructions to Franklin, in the Blue 

 Books, and in the papers issued by the Admiralty Uydrographic Office. The re- 

 ports and discussions of most value outside of these, will be found in the Journals 

 and Bulletins of the European and American geographical societies ; especially in 

 those of the Eoyal Geographical Society, London; the Bulletins de la Societe de 

 Geographic, Paris ; the Annales de Voyage edited by Malte Brun, and the Jour- 

 nal of the American Geographical Society, New York; and in Petermann's Geo- 

 grajthische Mittheilungen. Copious references to all of these are given in " Die 

 Lit«'ratur iiber der Polar Itegionen," edited for the K. K. Geographische Gesell- 

 s(;haft, of Vienna, by Chavanue, Karpft", and Le IMonnier. 8°. Vienna, 1878. 



