JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 
NOVEMBER, 1884. 
I. THE WAY TO THE POLE, AND SOME 
OBSERVATIONS of the GREELEY EXPEDITION. 
By the Count 0. Reichenbach. 
^WHEN, in the January number of the “journal of 
Science” for 1884, I showed that by theory I had 
anticipated what Baron Nordenskjoeld found and 
misinterpreted, and when the observations of the Greeley 
Expedition again confirm my theories, my view about the 
way to the Pole deserves examination when new expeditions 
are projected. 
In March, 1869, the following letter was addressed to the 
“ Cologne Gazette,” but not published “ because it might 
interfere with the sending of Captain Koldeway’s Expedi- 
tion.” A needless fear ; for it would have as little altered 
the mind of its promoters as its communication induced the 
leaders of the Austrian Expedition to try that route “whose 
first stage ” “ is the mouth of the Lena,” “ which Professor 
Nordenskjoeld hopes to reach this year on his way to 
Behring Strait.” 
“ To the Editor of the ‘ Cologne Gazette.’ 
“ You favour the Expedition promoted by Dr. Peter- 
mann. He says the stream which runs along the coast of 
Greenland comes from the Obi and Lena. Being right, he 
strangely sends his ships against, not with, the ice 
driving. 
“ The Pole is the ultimate aim. My view of the true 
way to reach it is based on a general theory of the confi- 
guration of the earth and of oceanic circulation. The ocean 
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