New-York tribune., 1912-03-19
100000 FOR ARCTIC TRIP
Large Part of Money for CrOCker
Land Expedition Subscribed.
TO START NORTH IN JULY
Explorers to Have Provisions for
Three Years, and Will Take
Moving Picture Outfit.

More than half Of the money necessary
to dcfray the expenses of the expedition to
Crocker Land which is TO be made THIS
year under the auspices of the Museum of
Natural History and the American Geo
graphical Society has been subscribed 1t
was announced yesterday. The expenses
were estimated at $4,000 and $4,000 Of that
amount has already been subscribed. IT
was said also that in ali probability the
Diana. one Of Pearys vessels, would be
used in the two-year trip in the Arctic
Ocean
George Borup and Donald p. Macmillan,
both OF Peary's party. will lead the expedi-
ton. As planned, the explorers will leave
Sydney y. S. on July 20. procuring dogs
and sledges on the way northwafd. The
return to New York Is planned for the
autumn OF 1914
Three years provisions for white men,
with their helpers and dogs viii be pro-
vidcd for the expedition. \ moving picture
outfit Will also he carried along. Coutinu-
Gus geological, geographical and physio-
graphical observations will be made.
Admiral Peary thought he saw such a
place as Crocker Land through his field
glasses in June, 1905. From tidal ooserya-
tions the existence Of the land has been
deduced by Or. i. 4. Harris. tidal expert
Of the United States Coast and Geodeu'
Survey. For several Years this question OF
the Arctic seas has been in tn. minds Of
explorers and Eeographers
Among the latest subscribers to the fund
for the expedition are Colgate UNIVERSITY.
T De Witt Cuyler. Mrs. Morris +. Jesup,
Isaac VI. Seligman. Henry SelEmau, Jo-
seph A. sellgman, Jacob H. Schif, MORT
mer schlf. Ogden Mills. r. " Williams.
VI Thomas, Henry c.. BRYANT. Henr" }.
Osborn and q Frederick Norton.
In addition IN the appropriations made
bv the museum and tho Geographical So
clety. subscriptions have already been
made or promised by Yale University, Bow
do'n College. the New York Academy o'
Sciences. Worcester Academy and Groton
School. and by the following individuals:
General Thomas II. Hubbard, Admiral l..
T. Peary. Mrs. G. 3 Alexander, Ionas
Crane. John Z. Thayer. Theodore Roos"-
Welt. Mrs. O. r. French. Harry r. Con-
verse. Andrew G. Weeks, Richard :. Dow,
Herbert Austen. Robert =. simpson, John
Iark!n. T. ". Clark, l.. II. Greenwood, J.
Sanford Barnes. IT., Paul 3. Morgan, sam
uel Rca, " W. Atterbury aud Lewis a
Platt
The famous collection Of Indian sketches
in oil by George Catiin, the Indian writer
and painter. have been purchased for the
museum by ogden Mills The collection
contains ll7 pictures. us showing types Of
American Indians, IL showing customs
10 showing ceremonies, IS Of landscapes
and hunting scenes and 10 OF South
American natives. on the death OF the
artist they passed into the possession Of
his daughter. Miss Elizabeth ". Catliu' Of
New York City When the artist visited
these tribes they were practically uninfu-
cnced by civilization.
In the bulletin of the museum which
will be issued to-day 81 IS said the CHIEF
interest of the collection Is historical and
chronological. AThe pictures have place
I'm the anthropological and library sections
Of the museum because th"y are the work
Of the FIRST great Indian painter.
The museum has received through J.
Pjerpont Morgan. jr.. the collections of
minerals and meteorites left by the late
Stratford g. II. Bailey, OF oscawana-on-
Hudson. The gem Of the Bailey collection
&c the aerolite known as Tomhaunock. This
!s a small mass, weighing about three ana
a quarter pounds, but It is ninc-tenths Of
the entire stone that was found IN 1863 on
Tomhannock Creek. in Rensselaer, County
y Y. IT has always been highly priced.
Three new groups have been added to the
exhibits OF the museum. one Of them Is
the group of wild boars given ty Walter
NViuans. and shows a winter scene In
Northern Germany. The Orlzaba group Is
another which has been added. IL repre-
sents a tropical scene. showing many rare
birds. The third IL the paddlensh or spoon
rul stureeon group i'm the hall Of fishes.