Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-02
|COOK TO FAVOR
DANISH EXPERTS
u. S. GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
WlTHH0LDS 20. K"
PEARY WILLING TO SUBMIT HIS
RECORDS
orioinaI Dlscoverer of North Pole,
After Reconsideration, Insists He
owes II to Copenhagen to
Keep Promise
1Rx Associatea Press ]

NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-Dr. Cook 8 re-
fusal to submit his observations. notes
and other data to competent sclenllllc
commission is all that stands In the
way of compliance with the suggestion
OF the National Geographical society
today that such step-on the part of
both Cook and Peary-should precede
any official recognition of the eXplor-
ers GAINS.
Commander Peary also has formally
sieuifed his willingness to comply
with the condition, but Dr. COOK in
letter to Archer Huntington, president
of the American Geographical society,
has declared that he will continue in
his determination to lay all his records
and Instruments first before the Uni
versity of Copenhagen.
Professor Ira Remsen, president OF
Johns Hopkins university, was asked
several days ago by Henry +. osborn,
. president of the American Museum OF
Natural History, and by Mr.. Hunting
ton to appoint-through his authority
as president of the National Academy
OF Sciences-a committee of astrono-
mers, geographers and biologists, to
whom the records of Peary and Cook
should be submitted.
Or. Remsen in reply telegraphed as
fcilt VS.:
at would be idle for me to appoint
such a committee unless Commander
Peary and DR.. Cook are willing to
submit their evidence to such com
mittee. If they are willing, | shall not
hesitate to make the appointment"
Consent Sought
Mr.. Osborn at once took steps to OBJ
tain the explorers consent and received
the following dispatch from Gen.
THOMAS H. Hubbard on behalf of Com
mander Peary
"Peary1s willing and desirous to sub
nit all his records and data to Ma
tional academy or other scientists i'm
partially selected"
Dr. Cook at first fell in with the sug-
gestion. He agreed with Mr.. Hunting
ton that there would be no better
person to call together a number OF
scientists than Professor Remsen, but
later reconsidered and sent the fol-
lowing to Mr. Huntingdon
"In rendering over the problems
which you were kind enough to pre-
sent to me yesterday, 1t appears to be
an injustice to the Danes to consent
to the appointment of another board
of examiners, after 1 had definitely
agreed to submit my material first to
the University of Copenhagen.
"I therefore ask your indulgence for
a few months and following the Dan
ish Investigation all the records will
be sent to all the geographical societies
of the world, after which it becomes
public property. 1 appreciate the good
offices of the American Geographical
society, the fair and friendly attitude
of its president and It's members and
will promise that they will have an
early opportunity to go over the entire
data of my polar conquest"
Cook Delivers Lecture
Dr. Cook delivered his lecture tonight
before representative Boston audi
ence. He replied to a recent and per-
tinent query Of George Kennan in a
magazine article, in which the writer
claimed Dr. Cook could not take suffi-
cient food supplies on two sledges to
last eighty-two days.
"Mr. KEENAN," said DIR. Cook, had
an idea that we used pressed meat for
food for dog and man. We could not
have lived on less than five thousand
pounds of such meat, an amount i'm
possible to carry on two sledges But
we had pemmican and we used one
pound per man, per dog per day. One
pound OF pemmican is equal to five
pounds of fresh meat, so you will see
that Mr.. Remnants figures were all
right, when properly applied"
DIR. Cook in his lecture, included
Peary's name in the list of intrepid
explorers who had preceded him to the
far north The pictures of the two Es-
kimos, who accompanied Cook to the
pole brought out applause. OF
In closing his lecture, DR.. Cook said:
II promise to bring them back to
American shores next year at my own
expense, when they will tell you hon
estly and frankly of their adventures
in the far north"