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Peary Auxiliary Expedition. 
tion of Inspector Anderson, to take passage to Copenhagen on 
one of the vessels of the Royal Greenland trading Company. Our 
last stop in Greenland was made at Godthaab, the capital of 
South Greenland, where the Danish officials extended every 
courtesy to us and where, during our two days^ sojourn, we en- 
joyed the opportunity of observing many phases in the life of 
this happy but isolated community. Leaving Godthaab on Sep' 
tember 8th, an uneventful voyage of seven days brought us 
once again to the familiar harbor of St. Johns and into touch with 
the great world beyond. 
I have not referred at any length, in the foregoing pages, to 
the scientific work of the expedition. This phase of our enter- 
prise was ever prosecuted when opportunity presented and the re- 
sults have proved interesting and important. 
A complete set of meteorological observations was taken daily 
during the voyage north of St. Johns and an unexampled series 
of photographs was secured by Prof. William Libbey, Jr., il- 
lustrating different features of the journey. I submit with pleas- 
ure to those interested in glacial studies, the geological report of 
Prof. T. C. Chamberlin, which embodies the results of his trained 
observations in the virgin field of the far north. Dr. Axel Oh- 
lin, our Swedish member, with Professor Libbey’s assistance, 
secured a collection of marine fauna notable in its variety and ex- 
tent, as may be seen by consulting his preliminary report here- 
with appended. 
The list of plants collected by our surgeon. Dr. H. E. Weth- 
erill, and subsequently determined at the Gray Herbarium, of 
Harvard University, contains the first specimens collected in El- 
lesmere Land, which region may be regarded as “the connecting 
link between Arctic North America and Greenland.” The capa- 
ble services of Mr. Emil Diebitsch, our civil engineer, were ever 
at the command of the party, and were frequently employed in 
connection with the astronomical work of the expedition. 
Mr. H. L. Bridgman forsook his journalistic duties in 
Brooklyn to make the northern voyage and has published an in- 
teresting series of letters in connection therewith. 
As Lieutenant Peary has himself written of the experiences of 
