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and 60 sledges, were employed in field- 

 work from January 21 to May 21, this 

 severe work resulting in the destruction 

 of the sledges. This and the depletion 

 of the food for the ponies and the dogs 

 rendered a return imperative. 



his discharge and the promotion of three 

 of his countrymen, who all followed me 

 in the sleigh expedition and obeyed with 

 pleasure the orders given by myself, my 

 representatives, and the ice pilot. 



Baldwin. 



ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH 



Tromsoe, Norway. Sept. /. 



The public has been deceived by false 

 reports regarding the expedition. 

 Nearly every member has been faith- 

 ful, and my comrades ought and must 

 have due credit for their work in estab- 

 lishing large depots at Camp Zeigler 

 during March, April, and May. Some- 

 times they had to traverse the same 

 route ten times. Fifty sleighs were de- 

 stroyed in this work. Open sea near 

 the depot at Teplitz Bay prevented us 

 from reaching the Duke of Abruzzi's 

 headquarters, and poor ice conditions 

 in igor prevented us from establishing 

 depots north of 80 degrees 22 minutes. 

 In this connection the death of half our 

 dogs necessitated the postponement of 

 going to the Pole. Nothing favored 

 returning via Greenland. 



I believe the record of being farthest 

 north could have been broken, but it 

 would have exhausted our supplies and 

 destroyed the hope of finally reaching 

 the Pole. 



Sailingmaster Johannsson's demands 

 to become the America's captain were 

 untenable and unbearable. His threat 

 December 15 to take possession of the 

 ship as captain and deal with the crew 

 in accordance with his own will might 

 have spoiled the expedition's plan if 

 enforced. The ice pilot, as well -as the 

 first mate, who had long experience in 

 polar ice, were entitled to recognition. 

 Johannsson's refusal to obe} r the ice 

 pilot's orders and his declared unwilling- 

 ness to take the advice of my represent- 

 atives on the sleigh expedition, together 

 with other well-founded reasons stated 

 to the American consul now here, caused 



AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL 

 ASSOCIATION 



A SPECIAL interest for anthropolo- 

 gists, and so for students of racial 

 distribution, attached to the meeting of 

 the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science this year at Pitts- 

 burg, June 30-July 3. A need long felt, 

 but growing in intensity during recent 

 years, found promise of satisfaction in 

 the establishment of an association of 

 anthropologists of national character. 

 It was natural that the nucleus for such 

 an association should be found in Sec- 

 tion H of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, and the 

 founding meeting was held on June 30 

 under the chairmanship of Dr Stewart 

 Culin, Vice-President of this Section. 

 This meeting resulted in the formal es- 

 tablishment of an association of anthro- 

 pologists under the name of the Ameri- 

 can Anthropological Association. Later 

 two executive sessions of the Association 

 were held, and on Wednesday, July 2, 

 there was a joint meeting of this Asso- 

 ciation with Section H, at which inter- 

 esting scientific papers were presented 

 and discussed. Prominent among those 

 taking part in the discussions were 

 William H. Holmes, Harlan I. Smith, 

 J. Walter Fewkes, J. D. McGuire, and 

 Walter Hough. The Association was 

 represented in the Council of the Ameri- 

 can Association by Professor Holmes 

 and Dr George A. Dorsey. The next 

 regular meeting of the Association will 

 be held at Washington in connection 

 with the winter meeting of the American 

 Association' for the Advancement of 

 Science, December 29 to January 3, 1903. 

 Although the invitations to the organ- 



