. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : 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. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. CHAPTER VIII. METEOROLOGICAL ANI^ AURORAL NolKS—ll.\ 1,1 )\\ I \.. Anniversary Lodcm:, Auj^ust 15, iS(;4. R. E. Peary, , , Comma)id
. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : 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. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. CHAPTER VIII. METEOROLOGICAL ANI^ AURORAL NolKS—ll.\ 1,1 )\\ I \.. Anniversary Lodcm:, Auj^ust 15, iS(;4. R. E. Peary, , , Comma)iditi!r Xortk- GrcoiliDid Jixpcdi- tio)i, iSi^j-.^. S/r:—I have the hon- our of sul)inittins^ tlie fol- lowing^ preliminary report of meti^oroioLiical work clone at this place from August ^^, 1S93, to August I, 1894, and upon the Inland Ice from March 5 to April 27, 1894. Through the courtesy of the Hon. Mark W. liar- tin_L;ton, Chief of the U. S. Weather iJureau, the meteoroloirical ecjuipmcMit ot the I'lxpetlition was sup- plemented by the use of an ohservatorw as re(|uired at all \\'eather-I^)urt,'au stations of the first order. All cKxluctions as to climatic coiulitions have fortun- ately been rendered more perlect by the satisfactory woikino- of tlui barograph and thermograph, both durini;- the Arctic ni^iit antl the Inland-Ice sled^t; journew Wind \'elocitie's are recorded as iiulicated 11. —ij 177 I 1 I. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Peary, Robert E. , 1856-1920. New York : F. A. Stokes
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