Show attempting THE ARCTIC international expeditions to the tha polar region BY IV u to the tho herald 1110 diw yorm jan the Herald sSt st petersburg special says the tile kussian expedition to tho the mouth oatlie of the lena organized by the imperial society of geography which lell left st petersburg on the ill of december will pass a year a r on tho coasts of the frozen ocean EQ jn sending this expedition the society fulfills an ail obligation contracted toward the international polar commission the following states tako take part in in the undertaking austria one station at jan jail mayor island IE england one station at port si in peon germany two stations one on oil the gulf of georgia gi a ill the e othea at a place not yet decided degi d upon in the region of the tile north pole denmark one elation station on the tile western coast of greenland norway one station at A in the province of finmark russia one station at the mauth of the lena the united states two stations one at point t kar ear row on the coast of behring strait tile other at lady franklin bay ba greenland the latter is already in ili operation france one station at there are nine amo other stations in the arctic region and two in the antarctic Ant artic region there is every reason to believe that there will be one or even two additional arctic st stations TI these aso may swell the list of f persons engaged to over all taking active part in ili this enterprise which will cost altogether upward of rubles X it it be considered that besides all this this magnetic ob observations in the more southern regions will be immensely stimulated the importance and costliness cust eust liness odthe of the enterprise will be full fully appreciated I the e russian expedition will undertake the hardest part of the work it will have to traverse about miles and establish itself in an ail exceptional cold re region ion at the mouth of tile lena close to the place where the lowest temperature in ili the world has been note noted in ili january the average avera e temperature is 40 below zero apie the point at which mercury freezes the greatest precautions will therefore have to bo be taken to prevent alie members of or tile expedition from losing their lives it may bo be presumed that fortunately t the survivors of the jeannette Jeannet tf who vile were all living at the end of october according to the news of them received cc ved a fortnight ago at will have been transported ere this to a more hospitable climate by the people with whom they had taken refuge |