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 . iety then appro-priated $1000 ; Professor Putnam assigned $1000for an ethnological exhibit for the Columbian Expo-sition ; the New York Sun offered $1000 for letters;Verhoeff contributed $2000 ; and Professor Heilprin,of the Philad
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 . iety then appro-priated $1000 ; Professor Putnam assigned $1000for an ethnological exhibit for the Columbian Expo-sition ; the New York Sun offered $1000 for letters;Verhoeff contributed $2000 ; and Professor Heilprin,of the Philadelphia Academy, organised an auxiliaryexpedition, the members of which contributed amountswhich, together with smaller amounts from variousfriends and a few thousand dollars of my own, per-mitted the fitting out of my North-Greenland Expe-dition of 1891-92, and the chartering of a ship to takeit north. An explicit statement is necessary here to correcterroneous impressions. The Philadelphia Academywas the first institution to which my project was pre-sented, and the first to endorse and commend it,which it did in warm and unequivocal terms. As aninstitution, however, the Academy never appropriatedor contributed a dollar to the Expedition. Membersof the Academy, in their private capacity, did con-tribute powerfully, both in work and money, towardsits KJkd^J^^^i^^<2^/^nA^— Introduction xli To the personal interest, friendship, and intense en-ergy and push of Prof. Angelo Heilprin, Curator ofthe Academy, was I indebted, more tfian to any otherone person, not only for the official action of theAcademy, but for the unofficial interest and effortsof its members, which assured the balance of thefunds necessary to make the affair a success. To the late distinguished President Leidy and theCouncil of the Academy of National Sciences ofPhiladelphia; to Prof. F. W. Putnam, of the Ameri-can Association for the Advancement of Science ; toJudge Charles P. Daly, President of th
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