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with ice, and telegraphic clock signals thence-      VASIES FROM  APTAIN DALLMANx'S MAP,
forth passed with perfect satisfaction to all.  Furlsned the Bremen (eographioal Society. If his He said Mr. Gamble could easily cite the experience  course is correctly laid down, he appears to have of the Western Unoon Telegraph Company, who     rn his vessel between Plover Island and the Kellett
experienced no trouble on the Sierra Nevada, high  Mountains across where Captains Williams and np upon the range, even when the lines became im-  Thomas report this low land. It appears that Dallbedded nnder the snow. and that they fonnd by   mann's claim is incorrect, and conflicts with the practice that dry ice afforded perfect insulaton;  testimony of Captains Williams and Thomas, whom but it was only imperfect when the snow           e know are carefnl and trnthful and exp rienced
melt. and became slushy.                        navigators. They reported to us that they saw conProfessor Davidson then recalled in part what he  netiug land with Plover Island and that it was had said in regard to Mr. Dall's alleged discovery  low  swampy land with grass. that the Knro Shiwo, or Japanese warm stream, did  aptain Henry W. Howgate, of the Howgate Arcnot pass into the Arctic through Bering Strait. [See  tic Expedition, said he had been the means of sendBnlkley's letter p. 16 [ He said he hai conversed  ing North two Arctic expeditions, and a third one with Captains Thomas and Williams. The latter's  is now itting out in charge of Lieutenant Gres. views, founded on his personal experience, had been  ley U. . ., o go by Smith's Sond to Lady Frankrecorded in the Academy's proceedings for 186T.  lin Bay, despatched by the War Department. This
Plover Island has been cat out of the U. S. Navy  will carry telegraph wire, flag signals, candle bombs Charts by the Hydrographic Bureau. Admiral John  and other apparatus used In the U. S. Signal SerBoegers. when in the Vincennes. on the United   vice, taking all of these that will prove nseful and Btates Explorieg Expedition of 185, landed upon  can be easily transported. Lieutenant Oreeley's in. Herald Island and from Its top saw no signs of  struttons are to search for and asslst, if necessary, Plover Island, but Professor Davilson ascrlbel this  lent. DeLong and party in the Jeannette, should to a false horizon,                             they make their appearance In any of the sounds on
SCOH PHENOMENA                   the eastern shores of America.
He argued that (apt. Dallmann's statement made
He had himself observed in Santa Barbara Channel,   e argued hat Capt. Dalm      statement made
off the coast of Oalifornia. where he had seen  at this late day appears to him vsry doubtful, and off the coast of California, where he had seen
islands lifted above the horizon, that belonged 1000  hoped that Lient. Berry and hIs party would bring dfeet below it  Hoe  haed also seen the reversei  us back some reliable information regarding Wran. when a rook in Santa Barbara channel disappeared to  gel Laud. his view, owing to the aerial phenomena of a false  Be then offered some interestng remarks on Ared horizon, which again appeared later in the day,  tic voyages. and the plan of exploration h e referred horizon, which again appeared later in the day,                      on the Atlantic side, bnt
when this false orizn broke away.   to was once attempted on the Atlantic side, but
when Cthis ale orn brownke  the John Rodgers'  failed through an accident to the exploring steamer; When i  ptatin E orinrown. Eo  the John Bodge1 , file  it s to establish colonies at short distances in the United States ]xploring Expedition of 1865, f aie    ana thu, „„„     ,0 the pole. One dolony
to see Plover Island, the weather was good, and he  Arctic, and thus work up to the pole. One coldly W^B of the Pl prer  ent the wteatahelrl waegoodl and he  is to be eetablished as far north as v essels can go, was of the impression that the Island did not exist,  Is to e etablished as far north as vessels can go, Captain Kellett, in  1849, in the British ship  say at Lady Franklin Bay lat. 81'40 onl  long. 64 Berald, says he made ont Plover Island in dirty  3  W  and frm tnere a contnno     hain of land
weater, ad says he made icov d  erald Island on ditya  stations, at short, but regular intervals, will be es. weather, and also discovered Herald Island and shoal,
and saw the tops of high mountains on what hasto form bses of commnicatoen ani sups'nce been made out to be Wrangel Land. Captains  plies, as the advancing party moves northward to Thomas and Williams say Plover Island is a low  approach the pole. pyramidal hillock, from which the low c     oast rh. Glder
pyrramial hillock, frou which the low coast trt~nd Berry as Pay Clerk, and who  as a member of the N. N. W. and W. S. W., stretching as an extended  Bhry t   ka expedition last year, was a member o the plain of very low land far toward the Kellelt Moon.  0Shwatka expedition last year. was then called upon plain of very low land far toward the Kellett Moun.
talns. In 1867 Alaska had an unusual rainfall of 23  and presented the Academy with a piece of bamboo, inbces in Jnly, which weather melted large bodies  evidently part of a fishing pole, one of the relices of of ice, and an equal rainfall here would furnish all  the Franklin expedition, of whose wrecked ship and of ice, and an eqnal rainfall here would fornish all  " *-^. ._,.„'_. a     nt in «psrrti
needed nourishment to vegetation. They aid not  records Lieutenant Schwatka went in sehighl attempt to land, for the entire coast or beach line  The Academy then adjournrd, after a highly-in. was bordered with pack ice. The situation of this  strtve and most agreeable meetiDg. land