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the orders and instructions given below. He will forward all reports and obser- 

 vations to the Chief Signal Officer, who is charged with the control and supervision 

 of the expedition. 



As soon as practicable, Lieutenant Ray will sail with his party from San 

 Francisco for Point Barrow, lat. 71° 27' N., long. 156° 16' W. (Beechey), and 

 establish there a permanent station of observation, to be occupied until the sum- 

 mer of 1884, when he will return here, unless other orders reach him. On the 

 way out and back a stoppage of a few days only will be made at Plover Bay (lat. 

 64° 22' o" N., long. 173'' 21' 32" W. ) for the purpose of determining the error 

 and sea rate of his chronometers. The vessel conveying him to his destination 

 will not be detained at the permanent station longer than is necessary to unload 

 the stores. 



The general instructions to Lieutenant Ray are the same as given to Lieu- 

 tenant Greely, of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. He is ordered to send his 

 vessel back to San Francisco as soon as possible with a report of the latitude and 

 longitude of his station, and a transcript of observations made on the voyage. 

 Careful attention to the making of animal and vegetable collections is required. 

 It is contemplated that the permanent station shall be visited in 1882, 1883 and 

 1884 by a steam or sailing vessel, by which supplies for, and such additions to 

 the present party as are deemed needful will be sent. List of stores required to 

 be sent by the next season's vessel, will be forwarded by each returning boat. 

 The subject of fuel and native food-supply, its procurement and preservation, will 

 receive full and careful attention, as soon after the establishment of the post as 

 practicable. Full reports upon this subject will be expected. 



The party is expected to leave San Francisco July 15th. 



THE JEANNETTE OR BENNETT EXPEDITION. 



The steamer Jeannette, owned and equipped by Mr. James Gordon Bennett, 

 of the New York Herald, but officered and manned, under a special act of Con- 

 gress, by the U. S. Navy Department, sailed from San Francisco for the Arctic, 

 via Behring's Strait, July 8, 1879. 



The Jeannette was provisioned for a three years cruise, or until October, 

 1882, until which time no serious apprehension for her safety need be exper- 

 ienced. The vessel was officered as follows : 



Lieutenant G. W. DeLong, Commanding ; Lieutenant C. W. Chipp, Ex. 

 Officer ; Lieutenant J. W. Danenhower, Navigator ; G. W. Melville, Chief En- 

 gineer ; J. W. Ambler, Passed Assistant Surgeon ; J. J. Collins, Meteorologist ; 

 R. L. Newcomb, Naturalist. 



At St. Michaels, Alaska, the Jeannette took on board dogs, sledges, drivers 

 and fur clothing, and then passing through Behring's Strait was last seen Septem- 

 ber 2, 1879, about ten miles south of Herald Island by Captain Barnes, of the 

 American Whaler Sea-Breeze. On the following day the smoke of a steamer 

 supposed to be the Jeannette was seen near Herald Island by several whalers, but 



