Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-05
SCIENTISTS AFLOAT.
The Proposed Wonderful Scientific Ex-
petition Around the World.


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For a year or more the Woodruff
scientific expedition around the world
has been prominently before the pub
lie. Various difficulties, notably that
OF obtaining a steamship adapted to
the requirements of the cruise. have
combined to defer the day of sailing
At last all hindrances have been over
come and the Sth of May next has
been fixed as the day when the fine
steamer General Werder will leave
New York with her load of 80 stu.
dent passengers and passenger-tourists
on her sixteen months cruise around
the world. The General Werder.
bought from the North German
Lloyds at a cost of S350,O00. is 351 feet
keel, 30 feet beam, 81 feet depth of
hold, and has a registered tonnage of
3O20 tons. Under a special act of
congress she has been granted am
American register and she has been
certified to as a frst-class vessel by a
board Of United States naval officers.
She will be commanded by Commander
a. 2. Cooke, U. S. n, with Lieuten-
ant Commander II. G. White. United
States Navy, as executive officer.
Subject to such notifications as may
be developed during the cruise, the
ship, sailing from New York. will
touch in the order named at the
following ports: Azores, Queens
town, Dublin, Southampton, the
Isle Of Wight, London, Edinburg.
Copenhagen, st. Petersburg. Stock
holm, Hamburg, Antwerp, Havre.
Lisbon, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Tangier.
Malaga, C~artagena, Barcelona, Mar
s%ellles, Genoa, Naples, Messina
Trieste, Venice. Athens. Constantine.
pie, Smyrna, Joppa, Alexandria. Juez.
Alden, Bombay, the Laccadiye Islands.
Geylon, Pulo Penang, Singapore.
Banca, Batavia, Borneo, Sooloo
Islands, Philippine Islands, Manila.
Hong Kong, WampOa, Macao. Canton.
Formosa, Shanghai, Marking. the
Pelho river, Picking, Nagasaki, Osaka.
lokohoma, Toxic, the Sandwich
Islands and San Francisco. At the
last named point the voyage will ter
inmate, transportation thence home
ward being provided by special ar
engagements with the railroad compa-
MES.
The purpose of the expedition is
purely educational, and the passen-
gers will be, for the most part, young
men. These will be subject to the
same discipline, and will pursue much
the same studies as cadets at the
United States naval academy. For
the benefit of those who may be desir-
GUS Of benefting by this unusual OBJ
portunity for seeing the world, tour
lists will be received on a passenger
rating and will be entitled to share
the benefit Of the lectures and other
modes Of instruction provided by the
faculty Of this floating college. The
composition of the faculty is an earn
est Of the exceptional educational
facilities that the expedition will af-
ford. Prot. w. s.. Clarke, late of
Amherst College, some time president
OF the Massachusetts, Agricultural
College and recently engaged in organ
izing an educational system under
the imperial government Of ia
pan, will be the dean. Profess
sors in the various departments
have been selected as follows Navi-
cation, A. p. Cooke, United States
Navy; astronomy, H. G, White,
United States Navy history and
geography, Francis lie Baron; chemis-
try and physics, Arthur T. Taylor,
Phi. D.; physiology and ethnography,
Richard w. Corwiu, MD; inverte,
brate zoology, Samuel +. Clarke, Of
Johns Hopkins University marine