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THIS is a handsome record of one of the most memorable, and in some respects most successful of Arctic expeditions. Though dated 1876, a note dated March, 1877, is prefixed, stating that the concluding chapters have been prepared by Prof. J. E. Nourse. We have already (vol. viii., 217, 435 and passim) given so full details concerning this expedition that we need do little more now than notice the publication of this record by the U.S. Government. It contains a full general narrative of the expedition drawn up not only from the official records of the responsible officers, but from the diaries kept by many of the subordinate officers and men, many of the latter being unusually intelligent. Indeed It formed part of the instructions to the expedition in its outset that as many of the officers and men as were able should keep diaries, which were to be handed over to the U.S. Government on the return of the expedition, a praiseworthy feature, we think, which might be advantageously copied by all similar expeditions.
Narrative of the North Polar Expedition U.S. Ship “Polaris,” Captain Charles Francis Hall, Commanding. Edited under the Direction of the Hon. G. M. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy.
by Rear-Admiral C. H. Davis, U.S.N. U.S. Naval Observatory, 1876. (Washington: Government Printing-office, 1876.)
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Narrative of the North Polar Expedition U.S. Ship “Polaris,” Captain Charles Francis Hall, Commanding Edited under the Direction of the Hon. G. M. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy. Nature 16, 225 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016225a0
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