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General Notes. 
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS. 
The Peary North Greenland Expedition.—This expedition, 
together with the relief expedition, both sent out by the Academy of 
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, has returned safely. They stopped 
at St. Johns, Newfoundland, and we derive the following report 
of their proceedings from letters sent to the Record and Ledger by 
Lieut. Peary and Mr. Meehan of the expedition,and from information 
subsequently obtained by ourselves 
rried out his plans fully and made an 
inland ice journey of 1300 miles with Mr. Astrupp, and, through the 
members of his party who remained at McCormick Bay, has made a 
rich collection of the flora, fauna and ethnology of North Greenland, 
besides which he has demonstrated the ease and comfort with which a 
winter can be spent in the Arctic regions. The Relief Expedition has 
been equally fortunate. Not an essential plan projected by Professor 
Heilprin has miscarried, and many things have been accomplished not 
considered feasible before sailing. Throughout the voyage no serious 
mishaps occurred, and the collections made are probably unprece- 
dented, even by many Northern expeditions remaining for a longer 
period of time. It made an almost complete collection of water and 
land mammals, both in skins and skeletons; a large variety of birds 
and submarine animal life, a collection of flowering plants, mosses, 
lichens and insects, and of ethnological specimens, which is probably 
only excelled by that in the museum at Copenhagen. This includes 
tents, costumes, sledges and dogs of the northern Esquimaux. The 
party has also secured meteorological and tidal observations, and a 
large number of photographs of natives, dwellings and arctic scenery. 
Peary discovered what he went after—the northern boundary of the 
main mass of Greenland. The details of his j Ja are awaited with 
great interest. 
The expedition was a success, among Lieutenant Peary’s dis- 
coveries being one of a great bay, latitude 81.37, longitude 24, open- 
ing out east and northeast, which he named Independence Bay, in 
honor of the day, July 4; and the great glacier flowing north into it, 
