I RENDER ^‘FEAR-Fr/Z” THANKS, AND MAKE MY BOM% 507 
dark. Who among those men will again volunteer for a 
surveying and exploring voyage around the world ? I 
have hut one more remark to add in regard to the 
achievements' of the Expedition, and that will give the 
reader a fair idea of the extent of our collections. I was 
informed by Mr. Stirnpson, our Xaturulist, some three 
months since, that he had brought back with him nearly 
five thousand varieties of animal life — mostly marine — 
which were previously unknown to the scientific world. 
What a vast field is there opened for the naturalist and 
his microscope ! 
And now I have but to dip once more into the ink- 
stand to return my thanks to Messrs. Edward Iveni and 
Geo. G. White, of Philadelphia, and to “feai/c^Z” A. E. 
Hartman, of Dresden, Saxony, for the aid of their able 
pencils in the way of illustrating my very imperfect MSS., 
and to express the hope that Congress may call upon 
Commander John Dodgers, our ci-demni leader, to pre- 
pare an official account of the cruise whicli shall spread 
the result of our work before the world, and do that 
which it has not been in my power to accomplish in a 
simple narrative of this nature: — z.e. to do justice to an 
undertaking which was originated by the necessities of 
commerce, which has progressed in silence, accomplished 
vast results of which little or no notice has been taken, 
(from the fact that we returned during the violent excite- 
ment preceding the late presidential election,) and which 
has not been blown into notoriety hy the brazen trumpet 
of an Antony Van Corlear. 
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