Show book of prayer used by greeley at smithsonian washington D C an old episcopal prayer book used every day by the lato late gen adolphus greeley during his arctic expedition forms a part of a collection collect fon of his personal effects recently placed on exhibition by the smithsonian institution through the courtesy of his heirs the battered old book of common prayer falls open naturally when it is picked up to a selection from the forty fifth eighty ninth and one hundred and tenth psalms day after dy day more than a half century ago it was opened to that page by the commander of a little body of american soldiers in about the most desperate circumstances in the story of polar exploration the reading of passages from this book by greeley helped to keep up the courage 0 of f this starving fl followers lowers while their number dropped from 25 to 7 among other relics of the heroic expedition contained in the collection are the spectacles and gloves worn by greeley at the lady franklin bay camp a sprig of arctic grass he collected as a sample of grinnell land hora flora the flag that flew over the camp at lady franklin bay and tattered fragments of the flag flown over the farthest north camp established by the expedition |