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Show SCIENTIFIC WORK IN RUSSIA An Ambitious Campaign of Survey Work Along Siberian Coast Is Undertaken. One of the most surprising pieces of news that has come lately from Russia Is that In spite of untoward political conditions an ambitious campaign cam-paign of survey work in the Arctic ocean along the Siberian coast was undertaken in the summer of 1018 under un-der the immediate-direction of the Rus- sian government's hydrographic office. A program of these undertakings was published last November in the Comptcs Ilendus of the French academy acad-emy of sciences by the widely known oceanographer, Gen. J. G. Shnkalski, who is still in Petrograd. so far as known. Subsequently General Shokal-skl Shokal-skl has found means of sending letters let-ters on the same subject to some of his scientific friends In the United States. The explorations were to be carried car-ried out by two parties. One, work- Ing from the White sea eastward to Cape Chelyunskin, was to be under the command of Captain Vllkltskli, the discoverer of Nicholas II Land and the leader of the expedition which made the northeast passage from Bering strait to tin; Atlantic ocean In 1 1)1-1-15. Another party, surveying sur-veying from Cape Chelyunskin to Bering Be-ring strait, was to be commanded by Capt. P. A. Novopashennil. Several new radio stations were to be established estab-lished to facilitate the work of the ex- peditions. Scientific American. |