ROUND THE WORLD EXPEDITION.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 33, 18 May 1878, Page 3

ROUND THE WORLD EXPEDITION.

The Woodruff Scientific Expedition has ha i a bill introduced into the Senate by Mr M'Doiiald, which authorises the Secretary of the Treasury to grant for the purpose of the above expedition registarto a foreign built stea nship, and authorises the Presi lent to detail oHieors of the army and navy, not to exceed five each, for duty with the expedition, who shal report anil transmit to the chiefs of their respective departments scientific .lata and material. The vessel is to bo approved by the Secretary of the Navy, and a school is to be maintained thereon with a capacity for at least two hundred scholars.

Tho expedition will leave New York in July, l«78, with a .stair'of twenty performers. Tlioy will first visit Europe, reaching there in time for the Paris Expos tion, and afterwards visiting many points of interest on the Continent; thence to the Mediterranean, and through the Suez Canal, calling at all points of interest on their way to oatavia; fro.ti thence they will proceed through the Maccassar Straits, touching at Borneo and the Phillipine Islands ; from thence to Hong Kong, thonco to Formosa, .Shanghai, and Yokohama; fro.n thence to the Caroline Islands, thence to New Guinea, thence to New Caledonia, t niching the Australian coast at Morton Bay, arriving at Sydney, New South Wales, about Soptember, 187!). From Sydney they will proceed to Fiji; thence to Navigator and Society Islands; thenco to Pita, on the west coast of South America, visiting all points of interest on that coast, passing through the Straits of Magellan ; touohing at all points of interest on the east coast of South America, arriving in New York, July 1880.

This expedition has the support of the faculties of all our leading colleges, au I of the United States Government.—Exchange. ,