Identifier: northwardovergre001pear (find matches)
Title: Northward over the great ice : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the Saviksue or great Cape York meteorites
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920
Subjects: Eskimos
Publisher: New York, NY : F.A. Stokes Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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that he stands ready to undertake the task forwhich his natural gifts and his acquirements have fitted him beyond other men.Your Committee submit, and recommend for adoption, the following reso-tion: Resolved, that the Council of the American Geographical Society heartilyapproves the project of polar exploration laid before it by Ci\-il-Engineer R. E.Pearj. U. .S. X., and will gladly contribute towards the expense of the same,provided such contribution is needed and will be acceptable, and that other sub-scriptions, sufficient to warrant the undertaking, are secured by Mr. Peary.Respectfully submitted, Bancroft Gherardi, jCharles P. Daly, /- Committee.Chandler Roeeins, )Nev,- YopJv, February 20. 1897.
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Introduction Iv The immediate outcome of that leave was the voy-age of last summer the Sixth Peary Expedition (Partv.), in which the work of instructing my natives as tothe coming year, in accordance with my programme,was successfully accomplished, and the great meteor-ite also safely brought home. In conclusion, the men to whose personal interest,efforts, and influence has been due, more than to any-one else, my ability to undertake my various voyages,are in chronological order : Prof. Angelo Heilprin ofPhiladelphia, President of the Geographical Club ofPhiladelphia, formerly Curator of the PhiladelphiaAcademy of Natural Sciences ; General I. J. Wistarof Philadelphia, President of the P. R. R. Coal &Canal Co., and late President of the Philadelphia Acad-emy of Natural Sciences; President Morris K. Jesupof the American Museum of Natural History, NewYork ; and Charles A. Moore, of Brooklyn. Aidinor and assistinp; these were President H. W.Cannon, and Vice-President Jas. G. Cannon o

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