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PEARY TO TRY AGAIN 



MORRIS K. JESUP, president of 

 the Peary Arctic Club, sends the 

 Magazine the following statement : 



The Peary Arctic Club, at its recent 

 meeting resolved unanimously to place 

 the Rooscz'elt on the docks for a complete 

 outfit, and to thereafter tender the same 

 to Commander Robert E. Peary for an- 

 other attempt to be made by him to reach 

 the North Pole. The club has taken this 

 action upon reports furnished by Com- 

 mander Peary, and believes that he will 

 be successful. They have entire confi- 

 dence in this gallant and intrepid Amer- 

 ican, and share in the pride which must 

 animate the American people to see this 

 effort, which the club believes will be the 

 final one and the planting on the North 

 Pole the American flag. 



The steamer Roosevelt has not been 

 structurally injured by the last voyage, 

 and when repaired will be equally, and 

 perhaps even more, able than when she 

 started north in 1905. 



The Peary Arctic Club asks the aid of 

 those who have heretofore contributed, 

 as well as the cooperation and aid of all 

 or any who feel an interest in this pa- 

 triotic enterprise. The expense of the 

 expedition, it is estimated, will be one 

 hundred thousand dollars, and it is hoped 

 this amount will be contributed by the 

 many, and not the few, as heretofore. 



Subscriptions may be sent to President 

 Henry Parish, New York Life and Trust 

 Company, No. 52 Wall street, treasurer. 

 Morris K. Jesup, 



President. 



At a meeting of the Board of Man- 

 agers of the National Geographic Soci- 

 ety on March 7, President Willis L. 

 Moore in the chair and the following 

 members present, Messrs Charles J. Bell, 

 Alexander Graham Bell, F. V. Coville, 

 Charles Denby, A. J. Henry, C. Hart 

 Merriam, General John M. Wilson, Gil- 

 bert H. Grosvenor, and F. B. Eichelber- 

 ger, the following resolution, proposed by 

 Dr Alexander Graham Bell and seconded 

 by General John M. Wilson, was unan- 

 imously adopted : 



Resolved, That $1,000 from the Re- 

 search Fund of the National Geographic 

 Society be subscribed to the Peary Polar 

 Expedition of 1907- 1908. 



In forwarding the amount President 

 Willis L. Moore stated that the National 

 Geographic Society wished to show its 

 appreciation of the important scientific 

 and geographical work performed by Mr 

 Peary during the past twenty years in the 

 Arctic regions, and its hope that he may 

 complete his exploratoins to the north of 

 Greenland and Grantland by the conquest 

 of the Pole. 



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