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their objective and rescue the party, and the high cost of the 

 third relief steamer, secured during the war. As it turned out, 

 while the credit of the work accomplished was equally divided 

 among the three institutions, namely, the American Museum of 

 Natural History, the American Geographical Society and the 

 University of Illinois, the real burden of financing and conduct- 

 ing the rescue of the expedition has fallen upon the Museum, 

 which has borne $86,045.07 of the total expenditure of $169,- 

 260.27, of which $153,660.27 has been paid, leaving a deficiency 

 of $15,597.71 still unprovided for at the close of 1921. The 

 financial contributions of the three institutions, the contributions 

 from other sources and the deficiency at the present time are as 

 follows : 



American Museum of Natural History $86,045.07 



American Geographical Society 19,000.00 



University of Illinois 10,000.00 



Other Sources 38 617 49 



Deficiency .' 15,'59771 



Total cost of expedition 169,260.27 



A recent issue of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Volume XXX, 

 gives the following resume of the expedition: 



The American Crocker Land Expedition. — This expedition was 

 sent in 1913 by the American Geographical Society and other 

 bodies in the United States to search for Crocker Land, which 

 had been reported by Peary in 1906 as lying to the W. of Grant 

 Land. 



D. B. MacMillan, the leader, had with him W. E. Ekblaw and 

 M. C. Tanquary, naturalists, and Lt. F. Green, cartographer. Fail- 

 ing to reach either Pirn I. or Flager Bay in Ellesmere Land, winter 

 quarters were established at Etah, where a meteorological station 

 was maintained throughout the duration of the expedition. In 

 March 1914 MacMillan and Green crossed Smith Sound on the ice, 

 traversed Ellesmere Land, and, passing by Bay Fjord and Nansen 

 Sound, reached Cape Thomas Hubbard. Thence a journey N.VV. 

 over rough sea ice for 150 m. failed to reveal any trace of land, and 

 the party returned to Etah by the same route. The farthest point 

 reached was lat. 82 ° 30' N., long. 108 22' 30" W. The members of 

 this expedition made several other long journeys. In 1916 Ekblaw 

 crossed Ellesmere Land from Cape Sabine to Bay Fjord and, passing 

 by Nansen Sound, Greely Fjord and Lake Hazen, reached Fort 

 Conger, Greely's former station on Robeson Channel. He returned 

 to Etah across Kennedy Channel and along the shores of Kane 

 Basin. The same year MacMillan made a long journey to Amund 

 Ringnes I. and Christian I. In 1917 a detailed survey was made of 

 the coast of Ellesmere Land from Cape Sabine to Clarence Head, 

 which considerably altered the charts based on the rough surveys 

 of Inglefield, Kane and Hayes. Several expeditions were sent to 

 relieve the explorers at Etah. The first in 191 5 met with an acci- 

 dent, and had to winter in North Star Bay; the second in 1916 

 failed to get through Melville Bay, but the third in 1917 brought 

 back safely those members of the expedition who had not pre- 

 viously returned via the Danish settlements in Greenland. 



