Mr. Stefansson's Arctic explorations were carried out mainly 

 on three expeditions to the American Arctic Archipelago and adja- 

 cent regions: the first in 1 906-1 907 to the Mackenzie delta; the 

 second in 1908-1912, on which the "blond" Eskimos were studied 

 in Victoria Island, Dolphin and Union Strait, and Coronation Gulf; 

 the third as commander of the Canadian Arctic Expedition in 19 13- 

 1918, as a result of which much light was shed on the constitution 

 of the western margin of the Archipelago, by extensive sledge 

 journeys over unexplored ocean between Alaska and Banks Island, 

 where deep soundings were taken and the continental shelf de- 

 termined, and by the discovery of Brock, Borden, Meighen, and 

 Lougheed Islands. He used the method of "living off the coun- 

 try'" extensively on his Arctic explorations and was the first to 

 apply this method on the deep Arctic Sea far from land. He is 

 an advocate of the utilization of the resources of the Arctic for the 

 production and marketing of reindeer meat and of the domestica- 

 tion of the musk-ox for its wool as well as its meat. Among his 

 books are "My Life With the Eskimo," New York, 1913, "The 

 Friendly Arctic," New York, 1921, "The Northward Course of 

 Empire," New York, 1922. See also his "Misconceptions About 

 Life in the Arctic" {Bull. Amer. Geogr. ^oc, Vol. 45, 1913), "Some 

 Erroneous Ideas of Arctic Geography" {Geogr. Rev., Vol. 12, 1922), 

 and the article "Arctic Resources" in the 1926 supplement to the 

 Encyclopaedia Britannica. 



