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 will not be covered because of the linn itation of the aircraft operations. At least 100000 square miles will be sur
 veyed by having the planes shoot out
 in three different lines for a distance
 of about five hundred miles. The
 two will travel together at all times
 and if land is discovered the advance flying base will be advanced to it and the scouting operations continued from the new point. In such an event it is conceivable that the entire un-
 known area may be surveyed.
 At least three separate flights will
 be conducted from Cape Hubbard, and if land is not discovered the expedi- tion will then retrace it's steps, mak-
 ing side trips over Elesmere Island,
 Grant Land, concerning whose inter for little is known, and possibly to
 Cape Columbia, at the northeast ex- tremety of Grant Land above Green land
 Retracing it's steps still further to
 the south the expedition intends to
 survey from the air the interior of
 Baffin Island, that vast mass discov-
 cred 349 years ago by Sir Martin For
 bisher, the English navigator, and con- corning which there is little known scarcely much more than in the days of Queen Elizabeth From there the expedition will visit the old Morse settlement of 1500 years ago near Gothaab, Greenland, and then cross to the northeast coast of Laborador for survey of it's little known inter- for and for study of the ruins of an ancient settlement there believed to be of Morse origin. The expedition will then return to Wiscasset and should be back by late fall.
 Everything possible has been done to assura the safety of the expedition. The National Geographical Society points to the fact that MacMillan in his many visits to the Arctic, never has lost man, and Secretary Wilbur says he is satisfied the expedition has been planned on sound, safe lines. No effort to reach the North Pole is con- templated, MacMillan being contented with Peary's effort in that respect and the Geographic Society and the navy being interested primarily in the scien tific questions awaiting study in the Arctic.
 To that end a complete equipment and scientific personnel has been brot together. The airplanes will carry thorough mapping apparatus by which the regions may be photographed and plotted from the air, and an assort- ment of motion and still cameras. Ar engagements have also been made for obtaining color photographs of the re- gions to be visited as we'll as their plant, animal and fish life.
 All told, including the crews of the two vessels, there are over thirty men in the expedition, MacMillan is assis- ted by John Reinartz, of South Man chester, Conn.,, and E. F. Mcdonald, of Chicago, president of the Radio broad. | casting league of America, as radio | experts, while among the scientists are Dr. Walter N. Koelz, an ichthyolo- 1 gist, and Lieutenant Benjamin Riggs, of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, an expert on topography and tides.
 The expert in charge of color pho- 1 tography is Jacob J. Gayer, while in l general charge of photography is May. nard Owen Williams, both of whom have been assigned by the Geographic Society. Commanding the Peary is 1 Captain George F. Steele, of Roxbury l while assistants to MacMillan in nav igating the Bowdoin are Ralph Robin l son of Merrimac, Mass, and John H. l Jaynes, of Somerville. Mas.
 The navy section in addition to Com 1 mander Byrd consists of Lieutenant 1 M. A. Schur, of Marshfield, Oregon: Chief Boatswain Earl Reber, of Chi. | cago; Aviation Pilots Nels P. Soren. l son and Andrew c. Mold, of Washing l ton, D. :, and Floyd E. Bennett, of Warrenburgh, N. Y; and Chief Aero l grapher Albert Francis, of San Diego. l who will observe meteorological con- ditions.
 The officers will fly the airplanes and the enlisted men will assist in the | work and keep the planes in condition l Except for the wings, one of the planes is to be carried assembled on the deck of the Peary to Etah, but the 1 other two have been broken down and will be assembled at Etah.
 A complete radio equipment will be carried, so that constant communica- ton may be maintained with civiliza- tlon. Both the Peary and the Bow doin have high powered standard navy sets while one of the two active planes will have a standard navy set and the l other thp short wavo apnarotuc rn 1