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sledges of the Peary Arctic Club during 

 its ten years of field work is not less 

 -than 6,800 miles. 



Additions by the Club to the nomen- 

 clature of Arctic maps may be summa- 

 rized as follows : 



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Jesup (Morris K.) Land. 

 Moore (Charles A.) Mountain. 

 Bridgman (Herbert L-) Mountain. 

 Benedict (Erastus C.) Glacier. 

 Hedin (Sven) Glacier. 

 Cannon (Henry W.) Cape. 



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Jesup (Morris K.) Cape, 1883- 1890. 

 Bridgman (Herbert L.) Cape. 

 Parish (Henry) Cape. 

 Wyckoff (Clarence F.) Cape. 

 Hill (James J.) Cape. 

 Cannon (Henry W.) Cape. 

 Benedict (Henry H.) Mountains. 

 Daly (Charles P.) Mountains. 

 'Constable (James M.) Bay. 

 Wyckoff (Edward G.) Island. 

 ■Schley (Grant B.) Fjord. 

 Hyde (Frederick E.) Fjord. 

 Sands (Hayden H.) Fjord. 

 Peary (Mary) Peak. 

 McKinley (William) Sea. 

 Roosevelt (Theodore) Range. 



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Crocker (George) Land. 

 Phillips (John C.) Bay. 

 Bourne (Fred. G.) Cape. 

 Colgate (James C.) Cape. 

 Hubbard (Thomas H.) Cape. 

 Kleybolte (Rudolph) Island. 



In addition to its definite work on the 

 map of the world, the Peary Arctic Club 

 'has accomplished other things hardly less 

 important and significant. It has demon- 

 strated the indisputable value of the Es- 

 "kimo and his dog; has substituted for 

 strained relations, friendship and loyalty, 

 sympathy with trie leader and obedience 

 to him, so that the undertaking com- 

 mands the best resources of both races ; 

 •each supplements the other, and the re- 

 sult has demonstrated the merit of the 

 combination. The Club has also vastly 

 simplified the equipment and dietary of 

 explorers; has carried far beyond any 

 former example the rule of "living off 

 the country." Scurvy and other evils 

 wvhich enfeebled and reduced earlier ex- 



plorers have been practically unknown, 

 and, utilizing the abundant supplies of 

 the food of the country, combined with 

 the essentials, pemmican and tea from 

 civilization, have demonstrated what is 

 probably the ideal Arctic food supply. 

 Starvation upon a selected basis has been 

 practically eliminated from the Arctic 

 dangers. 



The Peary Arctic Club has also dem- 

 onstrated the advantage of a small, com- 

 pact organization with direct personal 

 responsibility, free from routine "red 

 tape" or the semblance, without the fact, 

 of authority. Animated by absolute sin- 

 cerity of purpose, by undivided earnest- 

 ness in its one great object, it believes 

 that its example in fields of administra- 

 tion and cooperation are not less in- 

 structive than its achievements in the 

 field are gratifying. 



Death removed from the Club, on 

 January 22, 1908, Morris K. Jesup, its 

 first and only president. To Mr Jesup 

 more than to any other man the Club 

 owed existence, and from him it received 

 in generous measure support, counsel, 

 and inspiration, which sustained its work 

 and commanded for it a definite place in 

 public confidence and respect. 



The vacancy caused by Mr Jesup's 

 death was filled June 18, 1908, by the 

 election of Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard, of 

 New York, and that in the vice-presi- 

 dency, by the resignation of Commander 

 Peary, on account of his approaching 

 departure for the North, by the election 

 of Zenas Crane, of Dalton, Massachu- 

 setts. 



The Club's steamer Roosevelt, fully 

 repaired, equipped with new boilers, 

 stronger and better than ever, left New 

 York for the North, a second time, July 

 6, 1908 ; and, having been honored at 

 Oyster Bay, New York, by a visit from 

 President Roosevelt, departed from Syd- 

 ney July 17, upon a quest the complete 

 success of which the Club confidently ex- 

 pects Commander Peary will report in 

 person to the Tenth International Geo- 

 graphic Congress. 



