THE EXPEDITION AND ITS OBJECTS 7 
so long off the country in his many months of ex¬ 
ploration in the territory east of the Mackenzie 
River. 
The scientific staff gathered for the expedition 
was large and well-equipped. Besides Stefansson, 
anthropologist, and Dr. Anderson, zoologist, it in¬ 
cluded twelve men who were all specialists. The 
Canadian Geological Survey detailed four men to 
our party: George Malloch, an expert on coal de¬ 
posits and stratiography, who had been a graduate 
student at Yale; J, J. O’Neill, a mining geologist, 
whose specialty was copper; and Kenneth Chipman 
and J. R. Cox, skillful topographers. For study¬ 
ing ocean currents and tides and the treasures that 
might be brought up from the bottom of the sea 
we had James Murray of Glasgow, oceanographer, 
who had worked for many years with the late Sir 
John Murray, one of the world’s greatest authori¬ 
ties on the ocean. Murray had been with Sir Er¬ 
nest Shackleton on his Antartic expedition and aft¬ 
erwards had been biologist of the boundary survey 
of Colombia, South America. To study the fish 
of the Arctic Ocean we had Fritz Johansen, who 
had been marine zoologist with Mylius Erichsen in 
East Greenland and had done scientific work for 
the Department of Agriculture at Washington. 
As forester we had Bjarne Mamen, from Christi¬ 
ania, Norway, who had been on a trip to Spitsber- 
