656 KANSAS CITY HE VIEW OF SCIENCE. 



Long, of the United States Navy, sailing under the national flag, by authority of 

 Congress, is penetrating this ice-bound region by way of Behring's Straits ; and 

 no well-informed citizen but hopes with pride that success shall mark - the venture, 

 and that, in its beneficent results to science and humanity, the generous liberality 

 of the owner of the Jeannette shall find his deserved reward. 



Your committee, aware of the deep interest felt in these explorations, and 

 particularly that which has been manifested in the plan known to the American 

 public as the " Howgate plan," as is manifest in the petitions and memorials from 

 scientific and commercial bodies of all parts of the country, sent to this and pre- 

 ceding congresses, and desiring that its friends should briefly explain its history, 

 purposes, and expected resesults, by addressing them the following queries, to 

 elicit this information and so present it to the House, and which they here now 

 present. 



On behalf of the committee, it was requested that it should be shown — 



I. Chronologically, a brief of the various national expeditions to the Polar 

 Seas, and under what auspices made. 



II. A brief of the alleged scientific results of these expeditions, and refer, 

 ences. 



III. What are the expected and hoped-for results from the proposed expedi- 

 tion, scientific and economic ? 



IV. The special reasons, etc., for the plan proposed by the bill H. R. No. 

 1823. 



To which answer was made as follows : 



I. — CHRONOLOGICAL. 



Two expeditions were sent out by the Russian government in 1820, com- 

 manded by Admiral von Wrangell and Lieutenant Anjou, to explore the regions 

 north of Siberia. 



The following expeditions were sent out by the British government in the 

 years named : 



Captains Ross and Parry, in 1818, to discover the northwest passage, and 

 Captain Buchan and Lieutenant (afterward Sir John) Franklin, in the same year, 

 with a thoroughly equipped expedition, to reach the Pole. 



Captain Parry, in 18 19, was sent to explore the regions north of Hudson's 

 Bay. 



Sir John Franklin was sent out on a land expedition in 1820 to explore the 

 north coast of America. 



Captain Parry was sent in 1821 to explore the regions north of and around 

 Hudson's Bay. 



Captain Parry was sent again in 1823. 



Captain Lyon was sent out in 1824, via Hudson Straits. 



Sir John Franklin made a second land expedition in 1824, via the Mac- 

 kenzie River. 



