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Bay : First-Lieutenant A. W. Greely, Fifth Cavalry, acting Signal Officer and 

 Assistant ; Second-Lieutenant Frederick F. Kislingbury, Eleventh Infantry, act- 

 ing Signal Officer; Second-Lieutenant James B. Lockwood, Twenty-Third In- 

 fantry, acting Signal Officer; Sergeant Edward Israel, Signal Corps U. S. Army; 

 Sergeant Winfield S. Jewell, Signal Corps U. S. Army; Sergeant George W. 

 Rice, Signal Corps U. S. Army; Sergeant David C. Ralston, Signal Corps U. S. 

 Army; Sergeant Hampden S. Gardiner, Signal Corps U. S. Army; Sergeant 

 William H. Cross, general service U. S. Army ; Sergeant David L. Brainard, 

 Company L, Second Cavalry; Sergeant David Linn, Company C, Second Cav- 

 alry; Corporal Daniel C. Starr, Company F, Second Cavalry; Corporal Nicholas 

 Salor, Company H, Second Cavalry ; Corporal Joseph Elison, Company E, Tenth 

 Infantry ; Private Charles B. Henry, Company E, Fifth Cavalry ; Private Mau- 

 rice Connell, Company B. , Third Cavalry; Private Jacob Bender, Company F, 

 Ninth Infantry; Private Francis Long, Company F, Ninth Infantry; Private 

 William Whisler, Company F, Ninth Infantry; Private Henry Birderbick, Com- 

 pany G, Seventeenth Infantry ; Private Julius Fredericks, Company L, Second 

 Cavalry; Private James Ryan, Company H, Second Cavalry; Private Wilham 

 A. Elhs, Company C, Second Cavalry. 



2. In accordance with special instructions from the Secretary of War, Lieut- 

 enant Greely will contract at Disco, Greenland, with Octave Pavy, M. D., who 

 will thereafter remain on duty as acting signal surgeon U. S. Army, with the ex- 

 peditionary force. 



3. First-Lieutenant A. W. Greely, Fifth Cavalry, acting signal officer and 

 assistant to the Chief Signal Officer, is hereby assigned to the command of the 

 expedition, and is charged with the execution of the orders and instructions given 

 below. He will forward all reports and observations to the Chief Signal Officer, 

 who is charged with the control and supervision of the expedition. 



In addition to the persons named above, Mr. Henry Clay, accompanies the 

 expedition as volunteer secretary to the officer commanding. Mr. Clay with Dr. 

 Pavy spent the winter in Greenland preparing, themselves for work further north. 



the instructions : 



War Department, 

 Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 



Washington, D. C, June 17, 1881. 



instructions no. 72. 

 The following general instructions will govern in the estabUshment and man- 

 agement of the expedition, organized under Special Orders, No. 97, War Depart- 

 ment, office of the Chief Signal Officer, Washington, D. C, dated June 17, 1881: 

 The permanent station will be estabhshed at the most suitable point north of the 

 eighty-first parallel and contiguous to the coal seam discovered near Lady Frank- 

 lin Bay by the Enghsh expedition of 1875. After leaving St. Johns, N. F., ex- 

 cept to obtain Esquimaux hunters, dogs, clothing, etc., at Disco or Upernavik, 



