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Discussing the findings of specimens of arctic fish and animals for the American Museum of Natural History on the Putnam expedition, Captain Robert A. Bartlett spoke last night at the Union on "The Cruise of the Morrissey...
...Captain Bartlett was in charge of the voyage, made in his ship, except in regard to technical work of obtaining the history of the natives and specimens of the sea animals, this work was carried on by G. P. Putnam, for whom the expedition was named...
...Perry's famous Polar ship, the Roosevelt; he followed the dogsleds out over the Polar zone to within 100 miles of the Pole itself. Again, he sailed as Commander of the Karluk of the Canadian Arctic expedition, and, when that ship met the perils of floating Ice, it was Bartlett's prompt action that kept the party alive. Four men went off into the bitter Polar night and were never heard of again. Captain Bartlett marched across the floes to the coast of Siberia, crossed to Nome, and chartered a relief ship, in which he rescued the survivors...
President Coolidge selected him as a member of the board to investigate the northern flight in the Shenandoah. In the World War, Bartlett wore the strips of Lieutenant-Commander in the American Navy. During this period his knowledge of the North Atlantic was used in planning the trips of the transport ships...
...photographic section of the expedition was most successful, and hundreds of photographs as well as many thousands of feet of motion pictures were obtained. These Captain Bartlett will use to illustrate his talk...