The St. Johns herald., 1896-06-06
LABRADOR THE NEXT
EXPLORING EXPEDITION TO LEAVE
 PHILADELPHIA IN JUNE.
To Study the Eskimo and Collect Flora and Fauna-College Students In the Party. Lieutenant Peary's Old Ship, the Kite, to Take the Party-To Return In g Year.

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 Take the Party-To Return In Year.
 An expedition bound for the interior of Labrador will leave Philadelphia in
 June for the purpose of studying the Eskimo and collecting specimens of the flora and fauna of that region. c. H. Perkins of the class of '95, University of Pennsylvania, will be the command CT, and the remainder of the party will consist of four students of zoology, ge- ology, botany and archaeology and a number of college students and others.
 Professor Frank Russell, curator of the University of Iowa, accompanies the expedition as arch9ologist.
 The trip from St. Johns, N. F., to Labrador will be made in the ship Kite. At St. Johns the Philadelphia party will be joined by ten scientists sent out to explore the coast of Ellesmere Land, and also to discover traces of the ances- tors of the Greenlanders, who, it is thought, came from that place. Profess or Hite of the University of Pennsylva- mia, who is the originator of the expedi- tion, said: "The party will leave Phila- delphia about the middle of June. The ten scientists who will join our party at St. John will be sent out by Dr. c. T. Mendenhall, superintendent of the Unit ed States coast geological survey; Gen. eral A. W. Greedy, Baron von Saurma- jeltsch, J. A. W. Grip, envoy extraor- dinary from Germany to Norway and Sweden; J. W. Powel, director United States geological survey, and Baron Adolf Eric Nordenskjold of the Royal Academy of Science, Sweden.
 "These persons have supplied the wherewithal for the researches of the scientists for a period of one year. The Kite, after leaving St. Johns, will cruise around the gulf of St Lawrence, making collections at the south coast of Labrador, visiting the island of Anti oosti for Eskimo remains, and will then go north along the eastern coast of Lab radon as far as Cape Chidley. Parties will be left at various points along the coast, supplied with tools and equip ments necessary for their researches. At Clarence head, in James sound, Files mere land, it is proposed to leave the ten scientists, who will erect winter quarters and a general supply station there. They will make explorations un til the six months of darkness come on, when they will return to Clarence head, starting out again in the spring. It is expected to explore at least 800 miles of Ellesmere Land, which in all probability is the original home of the ancestors of the present Greenland Eskimo, who must have crossed to Greenland over 1000 years ago. Of these people the scientists are desirous of finding traces.
 "The Kite will return to Labrador, picking up the various parties, and then keep on to St. Johns, arriving about Sept 12. She will return ill 1897, car rying the same number of people and for the same purpose and will bring i home the party of scientists from Elles- mere Land.
 Professor Hite said that the university | cruise to India in September would pre- vent his accompanying the expedition to Labrador r-Philadelphia Press.