Vol. XIII, No. 6 WASHINGTON 



June, 1902 



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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 

 EXPEDITION TO MARTINIQUE 

 AND ST. VINCENT 



THE National Geographic Society 

 has sent three of its members on 

 a special expedition to Marti- 

 nique and St. Vincent to investigate the 

 volcanic conditions of the West Indian 

 regions. The distinguished scientists 

 who make up the party are: Robert T. 

 Hill, of the U. S. Geological Survey ; 

 Israel C. Russell, professor of geology 

 in the University of . Michigan, Ann 

 Arbor, and Commander C. E. Borch- 

 grevink, the Antarctic explorer, who 

 has studied the volcanoes Erebus and 

 Terror, the most southern volcanoes 

 known on the face of the globe. 



The expedition is the most important 

 and best equipped commission ever sent 

 out to study actual volcanic action. 

 Results of great scientific and practical 

 consequence may be expected to flow 

 from their work. On their return to 

 the United States they will report the 

 results of their observations to the So- 

 ciety. This report, forming a series of 

 illustrated articles, will be published 

 in full in the journal of the Society, the 

 National Geographic Magazine. 



The expedition sailed from New York 

 May 14, by special permission of Pres- 



ident Roosevelt and Secretary Moody, 

 on the Dixie, which carried the supplies 

 bought with the $200,000 voted by Con- 

 gress for the aid of the West Indian suf- 



Robert T. Hill, Geologist 



Member of the National Geographic Society 

 Expedition to Martinique 



