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Show 350 THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams LIEUTENANT RIGG INTERVIEWS A RESIDENT OF BATTLE HARBOR, LABRADOR The Peary and the Bowdoin touched at Battle Harbor and at Hope-dale, Labrador, the former vessel taking on coal at Hopedale before sailing for Godhavn, Greenland. The Bowdoin damaged her propeller and had to put back to Hopedale, where Commander MacMillan, crew, and scientists alike struggled feverishly for five days before a new propeller could be installed. After the yacht had been beached the entire cargo had to be shifted to the bow in order to tilt the stern upward sufficiently to make the repair at low tide. MacMillan, in a radio message describing the difficulties of the feat, added that his crew was composed of the finest men who had ever sailed north with him. edge of the fishes and birds of the Arctic regions. Dr. Koelz has been observing and collecting in a practically virgin field ; for, with the exception of work done in Spitsbergen and a few random specimens collected incidentally from time to time by explorers, the Arctic fauna has not been concentrated upon by scientific observers in the past. Among t h e species studied by Dr. Koelz are several gulls about w h i c h nothing has been known hitherto. Information concerning Arctic hawks has also been entirely lacking and much is needed to fill out the life history of the blue goose. In making his mar i n e collections Dr. Koelz has depended largely upon gill nets with square meshes having o p e n spaces about five-eighths and three-eighths of an inch across. Short lengths were spliced, making single nets up to 1,000 feet in length. ceptional value in answering many hitherto moot questions as to the flora, the fauna, and the meteorology of Arctic regions. The painstaking observations and the numerous specimens collected by Dr. Walter N. Koelz, loaned to the expedition by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries and the University of Michigan, are expected to prove important additions to our knowl- EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES CARRIED BY NATURALIST Collecting fish, birds, and mammals in the Arctic is a difficult undertaking, necessitating much equipment to provide against loss, so far removed from supplies. Hundreds of pounds of special supplies and equipment were taken along, and problems of packing and transportation involved in getting the specimens safely back to the United States had to be worked out. Dr. Koelz took aboard the Peary |
