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that imported from other States — a most 

 unjust discrimination against home in- 

 dustry. 



Instead of hampering breeders by re- 

 strictions, as at present, State laws should 

 be so modified as to encourage the raising 

 of deer, elk, and other animals as a 

 source of profit to the individual and to 

 the State. 



Safeguards against the destruction and 

 sale of wild deer in place of domesti- 

 cated deer are not difficult to enforce. 

 For this purpose a system of licensing 

 private parks, and of tagging deer or 

 carcasses sold or shipped, so that they 

 may be easily identified, is recommended. 



It is believed that with favorable legis- 

 lation much otherwise waste land in the 

 United States may be utilized for the 

 production of venison so as to yield 

 profitable returns, and also that this ex- 

 cellent and nutritious meat, instead of 

 being denied to 99 per cent of the popu- 

 lation of the country, may become as 

 common and as cheap in our markets as 

 mutton. 



NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



HON. J. HAMPTON MOORE, 

 Member of Congress from Philadel- 

 phia, and for some years a life member 

 of the National Geographic Society, is 

 sending to each member of the Society 

 a copy of his speech, "Peary's Discovery 

 of the North Pole," presented to Con- 

 gress March 22, 1910. The address, 

 which makes a pamphlet of 36 pages, and 

 is an historical summary of the organi- 

 zation and achievements of the last Peary 

 Expedition, contains much valuable in- 

 formation not previously published. 



Particularly interesting is the first pub- 

 lication of the original order of President 

 Roosevelt, in July, 1908. directing that 

 Robert E. Peary be detailed to the U. S. 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey, to make tidal 



observations along the shore of the polar 

 sea. 



Twenty-one large volumes of tidal 

 records were obtained by Commander 

 Peary, November, 1908, to June, 1909, 

 and were delivered to the Government in 

 October, 1909. The experts of the Sur- 

 vey who are reducing and discussing the 

 records report that the tides along the 

 northern coast of Grantland and Green- 

 land are quite different from what had 

 been heretofore supposed, and they ex- 

 pect to obtain important new knowledge 

 after these records have been thoroughly 

 examined. 



The Hydrographic Office of the Navy 

 Department has already prepared a chart 

 showing the line of soundings made by 

 Peary. The last sounding was made five 

 miles from the pole. The methods and 

 apparatus used for making the soundings 

 are fully described. 



Mr Moore's speech was to advocate 

 the passage of a special resolution which 

 he had recently introduced, and which is 

 also published in the pamphlet as an ap- 

 pendix, that the Congress should accept 

 the verdict of the National Geographic 

 Society commission which examined 

 Peary's records and found that he had 

 reached the North Pole. 



The decision of the National Geo- 

 graphic Society has been accepted with- 

 out question by the Royal Geographical 

 Society of London, and the geographical 

 societies of Berlin, Paris, Geneva, Rome, 

 Brussels, Antwerp, Vienna, Dresden, 

 Madrid, Edinburgh, Saint Petersburg, 

 Tokyo, Mexico, Lima (Peru), the geo- 

 graphical societies of Chicago, New 

 York, and Philadelphia, and practically 

 every geographical society in the world. 



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