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General Notes. 
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS. 
The Greenland Scientific Expedition of 1895.—Efforts are 
now making to raise a fund of $12,000 for the purpose of bringing Mr. 
Peary and his two assistants home from Nurthwest Greenland early 
next fall, and, in counection with this, to prosecute scientific investiga- 
tions during the available summer season. It is hoped, by this means, 
to charter and fit out a staunch steamer built for Arctic service and 
commanded by experienced Arctic navigators, which shall start from 
St. John’s, Newfoundland, on or about July 5, 1895, for Inglefield 
Gulf, Northwest Greenland, lat. 78° N., Mr. Peary’s headquarters. 
The cooperation of Museums, Scientific and Educational Institutions 
and individuals is invited, not only because they will thus assist in the 
return of Mr. Peary and in the preservation of the results of his ex- 
tended labors, but also because such an expedition will afford the most 
favorable advantages to eight or ten specialists for obtaining the rich 
results that are possible in a prolific field that, for a generation to 
come, may not again be easily and economically accessible. 
These Arctic waters have been traversed eight times without an acci- 
dent by the four Peary expeditions, 1891-94. No Arctic authority 
will dispute the feasibility of carrying on the work now proposed. 
If any members of the party desire to await in the vicinity of God- 
haven, Disco Island, the return of the vessel, facilities will be found 
here for transportation to the neighboring mainland, which, with its 
ice-cap, its giant glaciers, its great sheets of overflow lavas, its abund- 
ant fossil remains, and its large variety of Arctic flora and fauna will 
reward search with many valuable results. 
The vessel should reach the coast of Greenland by July 10 or 12, 
and should be able to arrive at Mr. Peary’s camp late in July or early 
in August, if it is deemed best to make only few and short stops on the 
northerly trip. There will then remain four or five weeks for investi- 
gations in that exceptionally advantageous region, and still leave some 
time for work at more southerly points, where, owing to the influence of 
the East Greenland current, the conditions are unfavorable in the 
early part of the season. After the severe season of 1893-94, an open 
passage through Melville Bay and a favorable summer may reasonably 
be expected this year. 
