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Show SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS OF THE MACMILLAN ARCTIC EXPEDITION IT IS hoped that by the time this number of the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE reaches the reader the major part of the program of the MacMillan Arctic Expedition, which took the field under the auspices of the National Geographic Society, the U. S. Navy cooperating, will have been accomplished. However, pending the complete narrative of the expedition's work by the leader, Commander Donald B. MacMillan, which will appear in an early issue, it will be of interest to the members of the National Geographic Society, each of whom has had an equal share in financing the undertaking, to learn further details of the organization of the exploring party and its personnel. The full roster of the expedition, which went north on the converted mine-layer Peary and the oil-burning yacht Bowdoin, is as follows: ABOARD THE "BOWDOIN" Donald B. MacMillan, in command of Expedition, Freeport, Maine. Ralph P. Robinson, mate, Merrimac, Massachusetts. John M. Jaynes, engineer, Somerville, Massachusetts. Benjamin H. Rigg, magnetic observer, tides and currents, loaned by the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Burlington, New Jersey. Maynard Owen Williams, staff correspondent, National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C. John L. Reinartz, radio operator, Manchester, Connecticut. Onnig Melkon, sailor and photographer, South Weymouth, Massachusetts. Martin E. Vorce, cook, Somerville, Massachusetts. Richard Salmon, sailor, Larchmont, New York. Kennett Rawson, sailor, Chicago, Illinois. ABOARD THE "PEARY" NAVY PERSONNEL Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd, Jr., U. S. N., in command of Navy personnel. Lieutenant Mienrod A. Schur, U. S.-N., San Diego, California. Chief Boatswain Earl E. Reber, U. S. N., Millville, New Jersey. Andrew C. Nold, aviation pilot, U. S. N., South Bend, Indiana. Floyd Bennet, aviation pilot, U. S. N., Water-bury, Vermont. Nels P. Sorensen, aviation chief machinist's mate, U. S. N., Menominee, Michigan. ^ Albert Francis, chief aerographer, U. S. N., San Francisco, California. Charles F. Rocheville, aviation machinist's mate, first class, U. S. N., Coronado, California. E. F. McDonald, Jr., in command of Peary and in charge of rad^o, Chicago, Illinois. George F. Steele, captain, Roxbury, Massachusetts. Hosmer L. Freeman, mate, South Weymouth, Massachusetts. W. D. Publicover, chief engineer, West Somerville, Massachusetts. Dr. Walter N. Koelz, ichthyologist of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Jacob Gayer, staff color photographer, National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C. Dr. Leo M. Davidoff, surgeon, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts. P. D. Davidson, first assistant engineer, Portland, Ma'ne. Paul J. McGee, radio operator, Mattoon, Illinois. Harold E. Gray, radio operator, Chicago, Illinois. Edward MacNamara, seaman, East Boston, Massachusetts. William Parker, fireman, New Orleans, Louisiana. Henry King, seaman, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Adolph Harloff, cook, East Boston, Massachusetts. E. G. Freel, fireman, South Boston, Massachusetts. Van R. Brown, fireman, Charlestown, Massachusetts. John Kenney, messman, Rosindale, Massachusetts. Rufus Sewall, officers' mess, Wiscasset, Maine. John MacNamara, seaman, Everett, Massachusetts. Ernest MacNamara, seaman, Boston, Massachusetts. WIRELESS REPORTS INDICATE SUCCESSFUL SCIENTIFIC WORK Wireless reports, which have been received at the headquarters of the National Geographic Society in Washington from the ship's base at Etah, Greenland, and which have been released to the newspapers daily, indicate that the scientific aspects of the expedition have been extremely fruitful, and it is believed that the technical experts are bringing back to the United States data in the form of field notes, natural history specimens, atmospheric and tidal observations, and natural-color photographs which will prove of ex- 349 |