Captain Bartlett comes from a Newfoundland family of mari- 

 ners and is one of the foremost ice navigators of the day. His Arc- 

 tic explorations began in 1 897-1 898, when he wintered with Peary 

 at Cape d'Urville in the Kane Basin. He was Commander of the 

 Roosevelt on Peary's polar expedition and went to latitude 87° 47' 

 N. with Peary on his dash to the pole. In the Canadian Arctic Ex- 

 pedition, 1913-1918, he was captain of the ill-fated Karluk (see 

 "The Last Voyage of the Karluk," Boston, 1916). In 1917 he was 

 sent as commander of the NepHine on the third Crocker Land relief 

 expedition to North Greenland. He accompanied the Putnam ex- 

 peditions of 1926 to North Greenland and of 1927 to Baffin Island as 

 master of the Morrissey. On the latter trip he made the first oceano- 

 graphical researches undertaken in the Foxe Basin. On numerous 

 other voyages, to the American Arctic Archipelago (1910), to Hud- 

 son Bay and Strait, to the Arctic Sea north of Alaska and eastern 

 Siberia (1923), he collected specimens of animal and plant life, 

 dredged for plankton, and made current, tidal, and meteorological 

 observations, turning over this material to scientific institutions 

 in Washington and New York. 



