Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Reports of Foreign Societies of Awarding Medals to the American Arctic Explorers, Kane, Hayes, Hall, 1876
By the approval of Rear-Admiral C. H. Davis, Superintendent of the Naval Observatory, the reports which follow are presented at the International Exhibition of 1876 in connection with the historic collections exhibited by the Observatory, as illustrative of American Arctic exploration. The Observatory is related to these explorations by its counsel and assistance given to them; and by the preparation of the narrative of the Polaris Expedition by the present Superintendent.
Special interest must cling to these several American expeditions. They have each gone forth within the last quarter of our century under the conduct of men of strong heroism. And when anxiety was aronsed at home through the long absence of some of these, the expeditions for their relief were led by naval officers of like sterling qualities.
Each leader of these expeditions sympathized with and shared more or less directly in the search for the gallant Franklin. Through the endurance of extreme hardships, each made additions of high value to the world's knowledge of the inhospitable regions of the Pole; two have passed into history, victims of the severe exposures to which they were subjected.
The two distinguished geographical societies of Europe have vied with each other in acknowledging the merits of our explorers. The reports of their awards are here given in chronological order.
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