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sical power — a resourcefulness which en- 

 abled him to find a way to surmount all 

 obstacles, a tenacity and courage which 

 knew no defeat, and a physical endow- 

 ment such as Nature gives to few men. 



It has been well said that the glory of 

 Peary's achievement belongs to the world 

 and is shared by all mankind. But we, 

 his fellow-countrymen, who have known 

 how he struggled those many years 

 against discouragement and scoffing and 

 how he persevered under financial bur- 

 dens that would have crushed less stal- 

 wart shoulders, especially rejoice that he 

 "made good at last," and that an Ameri- 

 can has become the peer of Hudson, 

 Magellan, and Columbus.* 



Peary's association with the na- 

 tional GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



Peary's first address to the National 

 Geographic Society was in the fall of 

 1888, when The Society was only a few 

 months old. He then described an ex- 

 pedition which he had led across Nica- 

 ragua. He was actively associated with 

 its work ever since those early days, 

 and on his return from each of his ex- 

 peditions to the Far North, his first pub- 



lic address was to the National Geo- 

 graphic Society. His last public appear- 

 ance was on the platform of the National 

 Geographic Society when in January, 

 1919, he introduced Stefansson, who had 

 just returned from the Canadian North. 



It was at a National Geographic So- 

 ciety meeting in 1907 that he was pre- 

 sented the Hubbard Gold Medal of The 

 Society by President Roosevelt, and in 

 1909 a Special Gold Medal for his dis- 

 covery of the North Pole, and later he 

 became a member of its Board of Man- 

 agers. 



It was my privilege to know Admiral 

 Peary intimately for twenty years, and 

 I find it difficult to express my admira- 

 tion and affection for his personal quali- 

 ties, the bigness of his heart and per- 

 sonality, his loyal devotion to his friends, 

 his generous enthusiasm at real accom- 

 plishment by others in any field, his 

 rugged integrity, and his love for every- 

 thing American. 



As long as the National Geographic 

 Society lives, its members can take pride 

 in the fact that the organization did its 

 utmost to help Peary "nail the Stars and 

 Stripes to the Pole." 



THE CROW, BIRD CITIZEN OF EVERY LAND 



A Feathered Rogue Who Has Many Fascinating Traits 



and Many Admirable Qualities Despite 



His Marauding Propensities 



By E.R. Kalmbach 



Assistant Biologist, U. S. Biological Survey 



OUR American crows, with all 

 their thousands, comprise but a 

 small contingent of the corvine 

 hordes that are to be found in one form 

 or another in almost every inhabitable 

 land. Crows are present throughout a 

 large part of the North American Conti- 

 nent, the tundras of Siberia, in the thickly 

 settled valleys of central Europe, along 

 the shores of the Mediterranean, in Af- 

 rica, India, China, Japan, throughout 

 many of the islands of the Eastern archi- 



pelagoes, as well as on that biologically 

 unique continent of Australia. 



South America alone seems to be de- 

 void of representatives of that group of 

 birds classified as crows and ravens. 



It is true this host is composed of a 

 great number of different species, mainly 

 black fellows, and frequently with repu- 

 tations appropriately associated with such 

 a garb ; but, with all its species, this group 

 of birds is a wonderfully distinct one. 



These royal rogues, like clannish races 



*The preceding paragraphs are extracted from a brief history of North Polar explorations 

 written by Gilbert Grosvenor for the Foreword of Admiral Peary's book, "The North Pole" 

 (F. A. Stokes Company). 



