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Surgeon, Dr George Shorkley, Cam- 

 den, Me. 



Assistant surgeon, Chas. L. Seitz, 

 Evansville, Ind. ; assistant surgeon, 

 J. Colin Vaughn, Forest Hill, N. J. 



Veterinarian, H. H. Newcomb, Mil- 

 ford, Mass. 



Quartermasters in charge of sledge 

 equipment, Charles E. Rilliet, St. Louis, 

 Mo. ; Jefferson F. Moulton, Second Cav- 

 alry, U. S. Army. 



Third assistant quartermaster, R. R. 

 Tafal, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Fourth assistant quartermaster, John 

 W. Truden, N. Y. city, N. Y. 



Assistants in quartermaster's depart- 

 ment, John Vedow, Mass. ; Pierre 

 Le Royer. 



Deck Department 



Captain, Edward Coffin, Edgartown, 

 Mass. 



First officer, Edward Haven, L}'nn, 

 Mass. 



Second officer, James W. Nichols. 



First quartermaster, Allen W. Mont- 

 rose, Lowell, Mass. 



Second quartermaster, William R. 

 Meyers, Boston, Mass. 



Third quartermaster, Franklin Cow- 

 ing, New Bedford, Mass. 



Fourth quartermaster, Chas. Kunold, 

 New York. 



Seamen, Harry Burns, Dunkirk, 

 N. Y. ; D. S. Mackiernan, Dorchester, 

 Mass. ; Alfred Beddow, London, Eug. ; 

 Clarence W. Thwing, Boston, Mass. ; 

 Elijah L. Perry, New Bedford, Mass. ; 

 Emil Meyer, New York ; John Duffy, 

 Waltham, Mass. ; William Ross, New 

 York. 



Assistant steward, Spencer W. Stew- 

 art, Brooklyn, N, Y. 



Cook, George H. Smith, Somerville, 

 Mass. 



Boy, James Dean, New Bedford, 

 Mass. 



Engineer' s Department. 



Chief engineer, H. P. Hartt, Ports- 

 mouth, Va. 



First assistant engineer, E. L.Varney, 

 Camden, Maine. 



Second assistant engineer, Anton 

 Vedow, Boston, Mass. 



Firemen, George D. Butlaud, Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y. ; Charles E. Hudgins, 

 Norfolk, Va. 



GEOGRAPHIC NOTES 



NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



AT a meeting of the Board of Man- 

 agers of the National Geographic 

 Society on May 15, Dr Alexander Gra- 

 ham Bell tendered his resignation as 

 President of the Society. Dr Bell stated 

 that owing to the pressure of work he 

 found it impossible to give to the Society 

 the thought that the position of Presi- 

 dent demanded. The resignation of 

 President Bell was accepted hy the 

 Board with profound regiet, to take 

 effect on the election of his successor. 

 Dr Bell was appointed chairman of a 

 committee of three to consider and nom- 



inate a successor. The other two mem- 

 bers of the committee, appointed by the 

 President, are Dr Willis L. Moore, Chief 

 U. S. Weather Bureau, and Mr G. K. 

 Gilbert, U. S. Geological Surve3'. As 

 no election will be made until the fall, 

 Dr Bell will continue as President of the 

 Society for some months. 



At the same meeting of the Board, 

 Vice-President W J McGee was ap- 

 pointed chairman of the Committee on 

 the International Geographical Con- 

 gress which is to meet in America in 

 1904 under the auspices of the National 

 Geographic Society. General Greely, 

 the original chairman of this committee, 



