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have thought much of relative values in life, 

 this institution has a field of great usefulness 

 lying before it. In their administration of the 

 generous gift, the trustees, the president and 

 the faculty of the Case School of Applied Sci- 

 ence, whether for research, for school instruc- 

 tion or for community education, wiU have the 

 sympathetic interest of astronomers, of all 

 lovers of the truth. This observatory may as- 

 sist in the solution of important problems con- 

 cerning the universe of which we form a part. 

 The universities, the colleges and the technical 

 schools of our country, and of other countries, 

 are graduating every year many himdreds of 

 young men, ready to start upon the more seri- 

 ous phases of their lives, who can tell us all 

 about the lights in our houses, but not one 

 word about the lights in our sky. This insti- 

 tution will do its quota in approximating to a 

 liberal education. The casual visitor who 

 enters its portals in search of knowledge, yea, 

 the passer-by in the street who merely sees a 

 dignified and purposeful observatory set upon 

 a hill, will have his thoughts directed to higher 

 levels. 



W. W. Campbell 

 LiicK Observatory, 



TJNIVEKSITT of CAXiIPORNIi. 



PLAN OF THE BICENTENARY EXPEDI- 

 TION TO THE NORTH OF 

 GREENLAND 



In the year 1721 Hans Egede left Copen- 

 hagen for Greenland; with this event the 

 systematic colonization of the vast arctic ter- 

 ritory by the Danish State began. In cele- 

 brating the bicentenary of this colonization 

 it is natural not only to review what has been 

 achieved, but also to look forward to what 

 still remains to be done both in administra- 

 tion and in research. 



The whole coast-line of Greenland is now 

 known. Every point of the coast, extensive 

 as that of a continent, commemorates by its 

 name the glorious achievements of explorers. 

 As a rule, the big nations were before us as 

 far as the discovery itself was concerned, 

 but we may safely say that Danish resear«h 



has deepened and perfected the knowledge of 

 the new coast-lines. Stubbornly and un.- 

 weariedly we have carried our flag to the 

 North on both coasts. 



The coast of Peary Land, the remotest, 

 most inaccessible part of Greenland we have 

 reached from both sides. The " Danmark " 

 Expedition reached Peary's Cairn on Cape 

 Bridgeman and the Second Thule Expedition, 

 in which I took part myself, reached the De 

 Long Fiord. There still remains a stretch of 

 coast which no Dane has ever seen, and the 

 interior of this country, almost as large as 

 Denmark, is absolutely imknown. 



On the Second Thule Expedition, con- 

 ducted by Knud Easmussen, it fell to me not 

 only to map out great ice-free territories, 

 which had hitherto been imknown, but also to 

 demonstrate that these new territories are 

 geologically among the most interesting in 

 Greenland, and that the so-called Caledonian 

 Fold, which had hitherto been known to exist 

 only in northern Europe stretched across to 

 the other side of the Atlantic. 



Though our results are confirmed by the 

 collections which we succeeded in bringing 

 home in spite of the greatest difficulties, I 

 realized even while working in the field, that 

 great problems still remained to be solved. 

 Another expedition is planned the aim of 

 which will be exclusively geological and geo- 

 graphical research. 



Headquarters with a wintering station wiU 

 be established in Robertson Bay in Inglefield 

 Gulf. From here the following expeditions 

 will be made: 



1. A large provision cache for future 

 journeys is to be taken across the Inland Ice 

 from Inglefield Gulf to Warming's Land.^ 

 The transport will take place in the late sum- 

 mer, when the temperature is comparatively 

 high and the surface snow is melted down or 

 compressed. For this reason it is to be imder- 

 taken by Cleveland Tractors, which will be 

 able to work across the ice-free marginal zone 

 at Inglefield Gulf. ' 



1 South of Sherard Oslbome Fiord. The writer's 

 map of the regions surveyed by the Thule Expedi- 

 tion has been printed and will soon be published. 



