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REVIEW OF SCIENCE AND. INDUSTRY, 
A MONTHLY RECORD OF PROGRESS IN 
SCIENCE, MECHANIC ARTS AND LITERATURE. 
VOL. IV. WAY 188o.).- NO Ma 
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EXPEDITIONS TO THE ARCTIC SEA. 
We gladly give place to the following letter from Prof. John Rae, of London, 
correcting a few errors of statement in a former article on this subject. —[Ep. 
THE EDITOR OF THE Kansas City REVIEW :— « 
Str, —In looking over your Review of March, kindly sent me by a friend, I 
find a list—chronologically given—of the various national expeditions to the Polar 
Seas. 
In this list there is one entry that was not a National expedition, one error of 
date, and three omissions, which perhaps you would allow me to point out— | 
The expedition under Captain (ot Lieutenant) Back, in 1833, was got up by 
private subscription, aided by the government to the extent of not a third of the 
money required. 
No expeditions were sent in 1847 by the British government to search for 
Sir John Franklin. 
Sir John Richardson and Dr. Rae were sent by the British government over- 
land in 1848 to the Arctic Sea, wz. McKenzie River, and searched the coast 
eastward to the Coppermine River for Franklin. This was a costly expedition, 
as boats and men were sent from England via. Hudson’s Bay. 
In 1849 the British government sent Dr. Rae to the Arctic coast, by pie 
Coppermine River, to search for Franklin. 
In 1851 Dr. Rae was again employed by the British powerniicne to search 
for Franklin by the Coppermine River, during which a sledge journey of over 
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