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VOL. VIll NO.3THE ARCTIC CIRCULAR2.8(2.5 pp.) Great Britain, Parliament, Sessional Papers, House ofCommons, Accounts and Papers, 1876, No. !C.-1560.1, Vol. XLV,pp. 463-88. - ­l877a 1 Arctic Expedition, 1875 -6. Journals and Proceedings of the ArcticExpedition, 1875-6, under the Command of Captain Sir George S.Nares, R.N., K. C. B. lIn continuation of Parliamentary Papers,C 1153 of 1875, and C 1560 of 1876.7Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of HerMajesty, 1877. London: Printed for Her Majesty's StationeryOffice, by Harrison 8< Sons, Printers in Ordinary to Her Majesty,St. MartinIs Lane.(vii 4484 PP.. 44 illustrations, 18 charts). GreatBritain, Parliament,Sessional Papers, House of Commons, Accounts and Papers,1877, No. 1C.-1636.7, Vol. LVI, pp. 1-556.l877b 2. Report of the Committee appo~nted by the Lords Commissionersof the Admiralty to enquire into1. The First Arctic BIlle Book of 1877. Some parts of l877a werepublished as 'separates l , being possibly advance forms of thereport. The writer has two such in his possession:a) Arctic Expedition. Report of Proceedings. Report of G,S.Nares, addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, datedH. M.S. "Alert", at Valentia, 2.7th October, 1876. 40 pp,indexed. IThis corresponds with that of pp. 2.-38, of l877a,evidently printed from the identical setting of type, thoughnot precisely in the same page arrangement. This 'separate'has a foot-number (2.00 10/76 -- H 8< S 2.448) in the lowerleft of its title page.7-•b) Arctic Expedition, 1875-6. Northern Sledging Farty. CommanderMarkham1s Journal. 32. pp., ,T;rith foot-number(2.5 11/76 -- H 8< S 2.596) at lower left of the title page.Again, with but minor changes, the type-settin[.is apparentlyidentical with that given on pp. 134-57 of l877a. /The foot-numbers presumably indicate the numbe;-of copies ofthe 'separate', the month and year of the printing, and Harrison8< Sons (H 8< S) order number.2.. The Second Arctic Blue Book of 1877.I\~----