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Printing Office, accompanied by the price of the volume, $2. This 
is likely to be the last opportunity of obtaining the volume, 
It is also to be hoped that another edition of the narrative of 
the second Arctic Expedition made by Capt. Hall [reviewed in 
our last number], to be sold at cost price, will also be ordered. 
The demand for it has been very great, and the first edition was 
very quickly exhausted. 
An Italian Antarctic Expedition is proposed by Lieut. Bove, 
who was one of the officers under Nordenskiöld on the Vega. It 
is to sail in the spring of 1881 and touch at Monte Video, Terra 
del Fuego, Falkland and South Shetland islands, and proceeding 
in a south westwardly direction, commence explorations, expect- 
ing to be engaged for two winters in the Antarctic region, and 
return by way of Hobart Town. The expenses are estimated at 
600,000 lire. 
Tue Howeate Arctic Expepirion.—The following bill has 
passed the U.S. House of Representatives, and been favorably re- 
ported to the Senate : 
A BILL to authorize and equip an expedition to the Arctic Seas. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Presi- 
dent of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized to 
establish a temporary station at some point north of the eighty- 
first degree of north latitude, on or near the shore of Lady Frank- 
lin Bay, for the purposes of scientific observation and exploration, 
and to develop or discover new whaling-grounds; to detail such 
officers or other persons of the public service to take part in the 
same as may be necessary, and who are willing to enlist for such 
purpose, not exceeding fifty in number, and to use any public 
vessel or vessels that may be suitable for the purpose of trans- 
porting the members of said station and their necessary supplies, 
and for such other duty in connection with said station as may 
be required from time to time: Provided, That the President of 
the United States is authorized to accept from H. W. Howgate, 
and fit out for the purposes of this expedition, the steamship Gu/- 
nare, which vessel shall be returned to its owner when the objects 
of the expedition shall have been accomplished, or when, in the 
opinion of the President, its services are no longer required: /70- 
vided further, That the United States shall not be liable to any 
claim for compensation in case of loss, damage, or deterioration 
of said vessel from any cause, or in any manner whatever, nor be 
liable to any demand for the use or risk of said vessel. 
We learn from Capt. W. H. Howgate, that the steamer Gulnare 
is of about 230 tons burden, and will have a crew of fifteen, officers 
and men all told. The expeditionary party which will be left at 
the station while the vessel returns to the United States, will con- 
sist of twenty-five men, including the necessary scientific corps- 
