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Abstract

AT the suggestion of the Council of the Royal Geographical Society, a manual will be prepared for the use of the Arctic Expedition, consisting of reprints of papers in the transactions of learned societies which would not otherwise be accessible, and other materials; the object being to furnish an exact view of the state of existing knowledge of Greenland and the surrounding seas. The geographical and ethnological portions will be undertaken by the Arctic Committee of the Geographical Society. The other sections will be edited by Mr. Rupert Jones, under the supervision of a Committee of the Royal Society. The appointments of the lieutenants and other officers to the Arctic Expedition were made this week. The Royal Society has recommended the appointment of a botanist and a zoologist for the consideration of the Admiralty, but they have not yet been officially selected. Good progress is being made in the strengthening of the ships at Portsmouth, which have been ordered to be ready for sea by the middle of May. The statement, in some of our contemporaries, that Capt. E. Hobart Seymour is to be second in command of the Expedition, is incorrect.