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MACMILLAN TO LUO .
EXPLORATION PARTY
IN SUBARCTIC AREAS
SCIENTISTS OF FIELD MUSEUM
FINANCED BY F. H. RAWSON
A CHICAGO BANKER
STUDY OF NORSE RUINS
IN LABRADOR PLANNED
No Sailors Will Be Aboard the Bow
din—Schooner Yacht Will
Follow the Leader
Chicago, May 12. (/P)—Nine scien
tists, led by Commander Donald Mac
Millan, American arctic explorer, will
journey to the frozen north this sum
mer to collect for the Field Museum
of Natural History here specimens of
animal and plant life in the sub-arctic
region.
The expedition, financed by Fred
erick H. Rawson, sr., Chicago banker,
will also study the record of man in 1
Labrador and in Baffinland, pausing
in Labrador, South Greenland and Baf
finland to uncover, if it can, evidences
of Norse habitation during the tenth
century, and in Baffinland to gather
specimens of Eskimo civilization.
Announcement of the venture made
today by D. C. Davies, director of the
Field museum, named the voyage as
the MacMillan-Rawson subarctic ex
pedition of the Field museum. The
brave little schooner Bowdoin, hero of
three previous arctic dashes and own
ed by Capt. MacMillan, will carry the
research party from Wiscassett, Me.,
about June 19, northward to S>dne>,
N. S., and thence to Battle Harbor,
Labrador, and as far north as the isl
and of Disko, above the arctic circle,
off the west coast of Greenland.
All the territory along the itiner
ary of the 90-foot craft will yield spec
imens of zoological, geological anthro
pological and botanical value to the
museum, now lacking in exhibits of
subarctic life. Every member of the
party will be an expert on research
of the sort for which the expedition is
sponsored. Alfred C. Weed, assistant
curator of fishes, and Ashley Hine:
bird taxidermist and collector, wil
represent the museum directly, while
Dr. Walker Koelz, of the Federal fish
eries bureau, ichthyologiytst, and a
number of other outside scientists wil
be members of the party under com
mission of the museum. Among these
will be an ornithologist, a botanist anc
a geologist, named by Stanley field of
the museum. All will make the Bow
doin their base, going ashore for spe
cimens.
The phase of the reasearch, which
will delve into evidence of early Norse
discovery of the North American con
tinent, will be pressed in arctic lands,
where Eskimo mythology tells of a
hardy race which visited the North
a thousand years ago and explored
the coast of North America 300 years
before Columbus.
Comparison of findings in Labrador
will be made with Norse ruins of
Greenland, in an effort to ascertain
whether Norsemen may have pene
trated to the North American coast
line.
The wide variation of customs of
Eskimo life make the possibilities j
great, museum officials say, for ad
dition of important exhibits from Baf
finland to the museum’s collection oi
information and specimens of Eskimc
life and culture.
In the wake of the Bowdoin on
its northern voyage will he the Sa
chem, a yacht just launched by Rowe
B. Metcalf, of Providence, R. I. It may
carry a few members of the MacMil
lan-Rawson party.
The Bowdoin will have its own
power plant, will be equipped with
sails and will carry radio equip
ment which will enable It to keep in
touch with the civilized world. It
will carry no sailors, depending on
scientist members of the party and
its own commander to guide it to its
goal.
A biproduct of the 5,000-mile trip
may be the selection of a site in La
brador for a scientific station of the
Field museum, which will continue
research for a five-year period.
The MacMillan-Rawson expedition
is one of the eleven contemplated into
the arctic regions this season by ex
plorers, adventurers and scientists of
six nations. Only one expedition,
however, besides that announced to
1 day, aims to scientific research. Two
have exploration as their motive,
while seven are exploiting aircraft as
an avenue to the north pole. The trip
will be 'MacMillan’s tenth voyage to
ihe arctic since the Peary expedition
of 190S-Q9, of which he was a mem
| ber.
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