Includes meeting commentary by William Cullen Bryant, Bayard Taylor, Lord Dufferin, and Isaac Hayes. Hayes approved Howgate’s plan but recommended the mouth of Smith Sound rather than Lady Franklin Bay because he wasn’t confident that the later could be reached every year. He was right.
Arctic Meeting at Chickering Hall. Plan for Exploration of the Arctic Regions,
Howgate, Henry W. Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York 10 (1878) 276-98.
- 1881-84 International Physical Year US Expedition to Lady Franklin Bay (led by Adolphus Greely).
- Arctic Reading: United States
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Congress and the North Pole; An Abstract of Arctic Legislation in the Congress of the United States.
Howgate, Henry W. Kansas City, Mo.: Kansas City Review of Science and Industry, 1879.
- 1881-84 International Physical Year US Expedition to Lady Franklin Bay (led by Adolphus Greely).
- Arctic Reading: United States
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p. 22ff, discussion on April 16, 1856, by Congressmen of Kane’s Narrative, Mr Tyson recommending the purchase of “fifteen thousand copies for the use of Congress.”