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...months the Jeannette sailed north. A reconditioned yacht, fitted for Arctic service by a sheathing of heavy planks, she could make four knots with her engines, six with her sails in a good breeze. But under sail she could scarcely be managed, and her engines used five tons of coal a day. Owned by Bennett, she had been commissioned by the Navy. Bennett paid the expenses of the trip although naval officers were in command and even the correspondents sailed as U. S. Navy seamen. Naval engineers shook their heads over the Jeannette, reported skeptically that "so far as practicable...
...moved beneath them: they were 25 miles north of where they started. Three months later a few of the survivors, some blind, some mad, one so badly frozen his feet had fallen off, landed on the coast of Siberia where the Lena River pours into the Arctic. Of a party of 14 men, including Commander George Washington De Long, only two came through alive. Nine, after incredible hardships, were almost within reach of help when they starved. Another group of eight was lost in a storm within a day's sail of safety. Ten men under Chief Engineer Melville...
BEYOND HORIZONS - Lincoln Ellsworth -Doubleday, Doran ($3.50). Unaffected autobiography of the 57-year-old Polar explorer, mainly concerned with his Arctic and Antarctic experiences of the last two decades, of which the greatest hardship was his 1926 Arctic flight with Amundsen, matched only by the hardships of dealing with his rich father...
From many parts of the world, field collections were presented to the herbarium, as follows: 249 ferns of Cuba: 118 plants of Colombia; 24 rare species secured on Arctic expeditions; 459 plants of Del Norte Country, California; three isotypes of new srectes; 237 plants of Hawaii; 42 rare plants of Indiana; 30 plants of Costa Rica; 1761 plants from Brazil; 45 local or critical plants of California; 99 plants illustrating critical Flora of the Aleutian Islands; 292 plants of Jamaica and the southern United States; 3087 critical herbaceous plants, chiefly of South America and Mexico; 13 plants newly discovered...
Conquerors of the Arctic (filmed by Mark Troyanovsky;* released by Amkino) films the conquest of the North Pole last May (TIME, May 31) by airmen and scientists of the Soviet Union. It follows the grim fight of determined men against howling Arctic weather, flies with them via Rudolf Island to the Pole itself, recording the weird tracery of the shifting ice pack as it appears from the air. At the Pole it shows the comrades jubilant, efficient, comfortable. They brush teeth, sluice bearded faces in the angled brightness of the Arctic sun, build an igloo settlement complete with electric lights...