Miscellaneous Intelligence. 527 
See 7 avian Voyage.—The Report of this Expedition, now 
Going from the Government printing office at Washington, furn- 
ishes the following data to the N. Y. Tribune of — 3d, Dr. 
Bessels submitted a memorandum of the most im 
rtant dis- 
coveries of the sipaditiots - he results of the oreediiie may be 
summed up briefly as fol 
(1.) The Polaris reached 82° 16’ N., a higher latitude than has 
been attained by an 
Capt. Buddington’s tes estimony is is very definite as to the imprac- 
ticability of pushing the vessel further north than the point which 
they reache 
The navigability of Kennedy Channel has been proved be- 
yond a doubt: 
3.) Upwards of 700 miles of coast line have been discovered 
and surveyed : 
(4.) The insularity of Greenland has been proved; and 
-) Numerous observations have been made seiatinn to astron- 
omy, magnetism, force of gravity, ocean physics, ge Sond 
Zoology, ethnology, botany, and geology, the records o 
cept ; 
National Beslan and some of the results of which we propose 
briefly to enumera 
Great care was geet in determining a reliable meridian at 
Thank-God Harbor. Soon after entering winter quarters an 
Observatory was erected on the shore, thirty-four an above mean 
Sea level, and the transit instrument ' stationed there. The longi- 
tude of this station was determined by the pc Ses of three 
vet lunar distances ; a number of moon culminations; a great 
er of star transits; a number of star occultations ; and a 
_have been preserved which are ican to establish the position 
of this station. Besides the above-mentioned observations, twenty 
sets of pendulum experiments were made, doa ae are saved, but 
the observations for time belonging to them are los 
observations obtained were more joe lete than 
any others ever before made in the Arctic regions. e instru- 
a supplied were: One unifilar pea posal one dip circle, 
h Lloyd’s evens one theodolite, and several prismatic ar 
sg The rvations on variation of doclumetion were r 
tered at Gottingen ¢ time, and were continued for five A 
ings taken hourly. Beside that, three term days were ob- 
magnetic stations. Further, a number of observations were 
taken either with the theodolite or the prismatic compass. When- 
ever possible, the dip was observed, and several sets of observa- 
tions on relative and absolute intensity and of the moment of 
inertia were obtained. 
