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...Baldwin, the arctic explorer, will speak on "the Baldwin-Ziegler Polar Expedition and Plans for Future Polar Research" in the Living Room of the Union next Tuesday evening. In his lecture he will describe his experiences with the expedition and will explain his ideas for the success of future polar research, which have never before been made public. Mr. Baldwin accompanied Commodore Peary in his dash for the North Pole in 1893. Five years later he went with the Wellman polar expedition. He also travelled to Spitzbergen in order to go with Andree in his balloon trip over the Arctic...
...arranged for four more lectures to be delivered in the Living Room, before the Christmas recess. The speakers, and the topics on which they will talk, follow: November 24, Mr. John S. Wise on "Recollections of Thirteen Presidents"; December 1, Mr. E. B. Baldwin on "The Baldwin-Ziegler Polar Expedition and Plans for Future Polar Research"; December 8, Mr. Arthur Woods, deputy commissioner in charge of the detective work in New York City on "Police and Detective Forces in New York"; December 14, Mr. Beekman Winthrop probably on "Porto Rico...
...rests on a great hollow cylinder immersed in a tank of water. A tank lined with thick walls of solid concrete was first sunk in the ground, and in this receptacle, ballasted with about 10 tons of iron at its lower end, floats the steel cylinder forming the polar axis of the telescope...
...Stefansson accompanied the Anglo-American polar expedition which started for the Arctic regions in the spring of 1906, as ethnologist, and collected archaeological and ethnological material for the Peabody Museum. At present he is writing an article on the "Anglo-American Polar Expedition" for Harper's Magazine...
...Open Polar Sea," by Dr. I. I. Hayes...