. Outing. e northeastsome hundred miles beyond Beaumontsfarthest. In so doing they reached 83 °24 N., thus exceeding the British rec-ord by about four miles and gaining thehighest north. Members of the expedi-tion also crossed Grinnell Land to itswestern coast. My own work in the same region istoo recent to be given space furtherthan to note that it resulted in the de-limitation of the northern terminus ofthe Greenland Archipelago, Cape Mor-ris Jesup, 83° 39 N., the most north-erly known land on the globe, and theattainment of 840 17 N., on the seaice north of Grant Land. The names which, in c
. Outing. e northeastsome hundred miles beyond Beaumontsfarthest. In so doing they reached 83 °24 N., thus exceeding the British rec-ord by about four miles and gaining thehighest north. Members of the expedi-tion also crossed Grinnell Land to itswestern coast. My own work in the same region istoo recent to be given space furtherthan to note that it resulted in the de-limitation of the northern terminus ofthe Greenland Archipelago, Cape Mor-ris Jesup, 83° 39 N., the most north-erly known land on the globe, and theattainment of 840 17 N., on the seaice north of Grant Land. The names which, in connectionwith each of these routes, stand outmost brilliantly are, Kane for the SmithSound or American route; Parry forthe Spitzbergen-East Greenland route;Nansen for the Bering Strait or driftroute; and Abruzzi for the Franz JosefLand route. And it is characteristicof the international character of thepolar quest that these names representfour nationalities, American, English,Norwegian, and Italian. •. A MAN WORTH KNOWING DR. WILFRED GRENFELL isone of the occasional heroes ofearth who falls upon fame wherehe seeks only an opportunity to little over fifteen years ago he landedon the Labrador coast to find himselfthe only resident physician along nearlysix hundred miles of barren rock andreef. For this decade and a half he hasdriven and walked and sailed and rowedand steamed up and down this storm-beaten shore line, busy day and nightwith the cure of bodies and souls. The world knows the story of hisservice. To quote the language inwhich Oxford University conferredupon him the honorary degree in medi-cine—the first time such a degree wasever given at Oxford—he has de-spised the perils of the ocean, which arethere most terrible, in order to bringcomfort and light to the wretched andsorrowing. That is a marvelous storyin itself, but it has been told. Recentlythere has been published a little book,Adrift on an Ice-Pan (Houghton-Mifflin Company), which tells in simpl
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