Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ARCTIC EXPEDITION FOR COLLEGE MEN!- This expedition is intended both as a means of recreation and scientific research. It will consist mostly of college students and professors, and rare opportunities are offered to those who are interested in geological work, as well as to sportsmen, who will be given exceptional advantages for hunting. Parties from Yale and other leading universities have been booked. The number will probably be limited to fifty. I shall be glad to confer with any Harvard students or professors who may desire further information in regard to this trip...
...novel Arctic expedition is to be undertaken this summer by a party of college men under the direction of Dr. F. A. Cook, ethnologist of the Peary expedition. The number will be selected from the leading universities of the country and will include representatives from Harvard, Yale, University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan...
Engineer-in-Chief Melville of the United States Navy addressed a large audience in Sever 11 last evening. He spoke first upon the "Training of an Engineer," and afterwards gave an informal decription of the retreat to land upon the expedition of the Jeanette into the Arctic regions...
...Melville then recounted informally his experiences in the Arctic regions. He is the only surviving officer of the ship Jeanette, that made its memorable expedition to the north in 1879. The ship was caught fast in the ice-floe and drifted north-west for twenty-two months. At the end of this time the ship was five hundred miles from Siberia, the nearest land, and was so badly crushed bp the ice that it had to be abandoned. The retreat to land was full of hardship. The men were weighted down with baggage, and progress over the uneven surface...
...knows all about it" was on hand and said that the home of the bird is in the far north - in the most northern bed of coniferous forests and forests and that they are so seldom harrassed there that they know absolutely nothing of danger. Almost all Arctic birds are tamer than more southern bred species, but the Pine Grosbeak is the least timid of the Arctic race...