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IT may be remembered that Lieutenant Peary, before starting on his sixth expedition to Greenland in 1896, offered transport on his steamer to two parties of scientific men, and that the opportunity was very properly accepted. The parties—which were under the direction respectively of Prof. A. E. Burton, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Prof. R. S. Tarr, of Cornell University—consisted each of six members, and were entirely independent in organisation and equipment of the main body of the expedition. The researches of the Boston party consist of observations in terrestrial physics, including glacier phenomena, and studies of Eskimo life, and their reports are now coming to hand. The report of Mr. G. R. Putnam, of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, who undertook the magnetic and pendulum observations, is now before us.
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Magnetic and Pendulum Observations1. Nature 57, 347–348 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057347a0
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