DR. NANSEN.
Ix Christiania at a meeting of the Geographical Society, Dr. Nansen jrave n lecture on bis Polar Expedition. The best course for another expedition, he said, would bo to set out through Behring Straits, make in a northerly nnd north - custody direction, nnd afterwards drift in the ice with the current, which it was certain would bring Ihe explorers out upon the coast of Greenland. Dr Nansen and Lieutenant Scott-Hanson accompanied by Mrs Nansen nnd Mrs Scott-Haiisen, arrived at Hamburg on Tuesday morning and in the afternoon continued their jouruoy to London, whtrj they arrived on Wednesday mornini;. They nre the guests of Sir G. KadenPowell, M.P. After his visit to Ch-eat Biitain Dr. Nansen will then go to Germany, but it issaid that he declined an offer of 100,000 marks for 100 lectures in that country. Iu St. Petersburg and Paris he will have oilieial receptious. During the summer he will rest in Norway, nnd early in Gctobor he will leave for New York in order to deliver 50 lectures iu the United States. _____^_^_ i ___
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Waikato Argus, Volume II, Issue 115, 3 April 1897, Page 1 (Supplement)
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178DR. NANSEN. Waikato Argus, Volume II, Issue 115, 3 April 1897, Page 1 (Supplement)
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