| Show COOKS CLAIM IS REJECTED University of Copenhagen Finds That Records Submitted Fail to Prove It PAPERS WITHOUT ANY VALUE His Note Books Contain No Original Original Original inal Calculations or Observations Commander Says Sas He Ire Sounded nn flu Ex Explicit Explicit E and nini Deliberately el Worded ordell Months Ago go Copenhagen Dec 21 1 The University I or oC Copenhagen the first firt institution ot oC learning to recognize Dr DI Frederick A Cook as th tho discoverer of ot tho th north pole today solemnly declared that the ex explorer had failed to establish the claim claimon on Oil which his Ins high honors honor had been based The Tho committee appointed by the uni university un i to examine Cooks records re Fe recently presented its report to the thc con atory of or the university which re reviewed viewed the deductions of the experts With the thc greatest cure care and discussed the tho th findings from every cery standpoint That both the tho committee and the con consistory wore disappointed was soon known The consistory mot met today and adopted a n written report to the effect that the th alleged records submitted for Cor examina examine examination examination tion by b Dr Cook failed to prove his claim HIS PAPERS V The Th rh report of or the thu th committee of ot which 3 Prof Prot was chairman as pre presented to the consistory states that Cooks Cook papers paper are without any an value relue that his hi report to the University of ot Copenhagen Is practically the same Fame as that published In the New York Herald Heraldon on his return from Ills his arctic expedition eXI tion The copies of his notebooks sub submitted submitted matted says the committee contain no original calculations of observations but only results re thereof tl rot committee concludes that he h affords no proof of oC having reached the pole There was produced before the com corn committee millee a letter from Crom Dr Cook post I Ost 4 Marseilles Dec D J 14 H This ThUl lends color to the earlier report that Cook tailed hailed from New ew York for Cor a Mediterranean nOn rian nOncan can ean port COOKS DOCUMENTS DOO I The documents handed the commis commission Jon sion ot of o the th University o at Copenhagen for examination arc are First a u typewritten report prepared by b Cooks secretary Walter Lonsdale and covering 61 pages of foolscap Second a typewritten copy made by U u Lonsdale Londale from Cooks Cooks note books This occupies 16 pages of oC foolscap and In Includes eludes a description of oC the period from March 18 1908 to June Juno 13 1908 during which according to the statement Cook Journeyed from to the north pole polo and returned to a point on the tho polar leo Ice not specifically Indicated but west rest of or Axel land The rhe papers were not accompanied by B private pIlate letter from Cook but Secy StCYr stated verbally to the con com commission mission that the original notes and Socks of the explorer from crom which his copies wore Were made ma e had tx be been cn n sent to Europe by b another route us as V a n precautionary precautionary precautionary measure and would be delivered to the university in lr tho the course of or a Cew ow days daye daYlIn In presenting pre enUng the data Lonsdale Lonadale Lons ole stat stated stated stated ed explicitly and und repeatedly that the copy numbered two was a complete and accurate duplicate of oC the tho Information contained In all of oC Cooks note books bolks that could be of ot any Importance to the university for tor the purposes of oC the ex cx examination examination PROMISED NOTE BOOKS LACKING In sPite spile or of the explorers promise and his assurance that th t they thc would 1 be forthcoming the commission j Is IB not yet et In ip possession of or the original note books and diaries Up to this time It has been Impossible bible sible for tor the university authorities to reestablish communication with Dr Cook which was wall suspended some time ago The explorers address Is not hero Itero even to Secy After the members mem rs of at tho the examining committee had hall made themselves ac acquainted acquainted Individually with the material delivered and so convinced of or Its 3 as nil a It meant means ot of de do determining whether Cook reached leached the thu north vole polo th the president of or tho com cOln committee co Prof Proto called a 0 zen jen en meeting of ot the committee for tOl last Friday when the tho report to the tho uni university university crt It and which Is now n w made public lIas drawn drown up tip u Lonadale who had been Invited to tor r this meeting to answer some question brought with him a Il letter which h he ho had hid received from Cook which bore neither nelU er erthe the place toco nor date of at Its lt writing The fhe opened envelope however bore 1 the postmark Marseilles Dec 14 ItOl 1 03 The he same envelope contained a letter addressed by Cook to the former eec rec rector tor lor or of the University of ot Copenhagen Prof Prot Torp The letter to Torp orp was dated New Now York Sept 27 i 1809 HO |
