CABLE ADDRESS ‘‘MUSEOLOGY"’ 
HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN CROCKER LAN D EXPE DITION Epmunp Otis Hovey 
CHANDLER ROBBINS HerserTt L. BRIDGMAN 
THomas H. HussarD UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE Committee in Charge 
Honorary Committee 
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY All Correspondence should 
Georce Borup 
be addressed to 
Donato B. MACMILLAN AND THE j Dr. EDMUND OTIS HovEY 
Leaders 
Am ERICAN GEOGRAPH ICAL Soci ETY 777TH STREET AND CENTRAL PARK WE8T 
New York 
Mr.William Brewster 
Harvard University 
Cambridge, Mass. 
My dear Mr. Brewster: 
Through our mutual friend, Mr.Forbush, 
I have learned that you might vossibly be interested in 
our work for the next two years in the far north. 
Under separate cover I am sending 
you a prospectus . Our objective point is the only 
remaining unexplored section of the Polar Sea. Dr.ReA.» 
Harris declares tnis to contain one half a million square 
miles of land as shown by his deductions of all known 
tidal observations. Admiral R.H.Peary states that he 
sew this land distinctly about 130 miles northwest of 
Cape Thomas Hubbard. 
In addition to the work of explorate 
ion we are planning to do work along the lines of Geology, 
Meteorology, Zoology, Ethnology,and Ornithology. The last 
I am especially interested in and di all of the bird work 
on Peary's last expedition. We were fortunate in finding 
two nests of the knot (Tringa canutus). Much to my surpris 
these were found back among the hills and not along the 
shore where we had been looking for weeks. Now that I 
