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...MacMillan was assistant to Peary in his successful trip to the North Pole. For three years afterwards he cruised along the Labrador Coast, and in 1913 he commanded the Crocker Land Expedition, from which he returned in 1917. In 1920-21 the explorer will have charge of the Bowdoin-Baflln Land expedition...
...Crocker Land Expedition, lasting from 1913 to 1917 was commanded by Mr. MacMillan, and the newest of his undertakings is the Bowdoin-Baffin Land Expedition which is scheduled to take place...
...taking Arctic travels. In 1908-09 he was Commander Peary's assistant on his successful trip to the North Pole. During the following three years he cruised along the Labrador coast especially for an ethnological study of the Eskimos and Indians living there. He was in command of the Crocker Land expedition to the Polar Regions which took place from 1913-17. In all his travels he has covered 10,000 miles with dog team in company with Polar Eskimos. Mr. MacMillan will also be in command of the Bowdoin-Baffin Land Expedition which will take place next year...
...Codman, H. F. Colt; 9-10, J. Crocker, F. Cromwell; 10-11, B. W. Currier, W. W. Douglas; 11-12, S. A. Duncan, H. Elliott, Jr.; 12-1, D. P. Freguson, A. B. Field; 1-2, J. B. Fleming, G. P. Fogg, Jr.; 2-3, D. M. Frothingham, W. Gale; 3-4, M. Gratwick, J. C. Greene; 4-5, R. M. Greenwood, C. C. Griffin; 5-6, F. T. Hammond, T. Hitchcock...
Peter Cooper Hewitt and Francis Bacon Crocker have both experimented with the helicopter and obtained encouraging results. Scores of patents have been issued for this type of craft and the inventors have been divided into two classes--those who try to lift the machine by vertical propellors and those who attempt it with rotating wings...