APPENDIX. 
No. I. 
Instructions of the Secretary of the Navy to Passed Assistant 
Surgeon Kane . 
Navy Department, November 27, 1852. 
g IR : —Lady Franklin having urged you to undertake a search for 
her husband, Sir John Franklin, and his companions, and a vessel, 
the Advance, having been placed at your disposition by Mr. Grinnell, 
you are hereby assigned to special duty for the purpose of conducting 
an overland journey from the upper waters of Baffin's Bay to the 
shores of the Polar seas 
Belying upon your zeal and discretion, the Department sends you 
forth upon an undertaking which will be attended with great peril and 
exposure. Trusting that you will be sustained by the laudable object 
in view, and wishing you success and a safe return to your friends 
L am, respectfully, your obedient servant, 
John P. Kennedy. 
Passed Assistant Surgeon E. K. Kane , 
United States Navy , Philadelphia. 
Navy Department, February 9, 1853. 
Sir. ; —x n connection with the special duty assigned to you by the 
order of this Department bearing date November 27, 1852, your 
attention is invited to objects of scientific inquiry; particularly to 
such as relate to the existence of an open Polar sea, terrestrial magnet- 
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