THE LEADER OF THE EXPEDITinN 



Figure 2.— Lieut. Commander Edward H. Smith, United States Coast Guard leader of 

 the Marion expedition. At the termination of the World War, Lieutenant Commander 

 Smith was assigned by the Coast Guard to its ice-patrol service. There he spent 10 

 years, and it was because of this work that he was chosen to command the Marion 

 during her Arctic cruise. The instrument is a Greene-Bigelow water bottle — a «<'vice 

 used to obtain a sample of the water and the temperature from any level to which 

 it is lowered. 



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