Show 5 5 k4 ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS I Atiran Sclieroe for Eiplorlus j iheWorth New York Heralds St Petersburg Peters-burg The Russian expedition to the mouth of the Lena organized by the Imperial Im-perial Society of Geography which left i St Peersburg on the 23th of December will pass a year on the coasts of the frozen ocean In sending this expedition the I society fulfills an obligation contracted toward the international polar commis sion The following states take part in the undertaking Austria one station At Jan Mayer Island England one station at ifort Simpson Germany two stations one on the Gulf of Georgia the other at a place not yet decided upon in the region of the north pole DenmarK one station on the western coast of Greenland Norway one station at Altengaard in tbe province pro-vince of Finmark Russia one station at he mouth of the Lens the United States two stations one at Point Barrow on the coast of Bohring Strait the other Rt Lady Francklyn Bay Greenland The latter is already in operation Trance one station at Ipiticbern There are nine other stations in the Arctic region re-gion and two id the Antarctic region I xnere is every reason to believe mat there will be one or even two additional Arctic stations These may swell the BEt of persons engaged to over 200 all taking active part in this enterprise which will cost altogether upward of 1000000 rubles If it t be considered that besides all this magnetic observations in the more southern south-ern regions will be immensely stimulated the importance and costliness of the enterprise terprise will be fully appreciated The Russian expedition will undertake the hardest part of the work It will have to traverse about 6630 miles and establish itself in an exceptionably cold region at the mouth of tbe Lena close to the place where the lowest temperature in the world has been noted In January the average temperature is 40 ° below zero the point at which mercury mer-cury freezes The greatest precautions will therefore have to be taken to prevent pre-vent the members of the expedition from losing their lives It may be presumed umed that fortunately the survivors of the Jeannettc who were all living at the end of October according to the news of them received a fortnight ago at Irk itsk will have been transported urn ibis to a more hospitable climate by the people peo-ple with whom they had taken refuge |