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Search Expedition; Howard Scott Waring, Master,  Navy, be Is fitted by educatlon, as well as by his U. 8. N., Executive Officer and Navigator; Dr.  character, pleasing manner, and deep interest In Meredith Dabney Jones, U S N, Passed Assistant  Arctic explorations and discoveries, to command Surgeon:; William  Frederick Halsey, Master, U. S.  such an expedition. It is rarely that a finer set of N.; Abraham  V. Zane, U. 8. N., Passed Assistant  officers and' men-all especially selected for this Engineer; Henry Jackson Hunt, U. S. N., Ensign;  duty-are found aboard of any vessel, and they George Middleton Stoney, U 8. N., Ensign; Dr.   unanimously express themselves more than pleased Jotquim Demetrius Castillo, U. S. N., Assistant Sur-  with the Rodgers and her present outfit, as she swings geon;  olonel William H. Gilder, Pay Clerk, and  at her anchor In onr harbor. anxious to be off on her New York Herald correspondent, fwas with Lient.  errand of mercy and of hope, Sohwartzka's expedition to King William's Land.]  Leut. Berry's  well-known experience in the Joseph Bodgson, Paymater's yeoman and store    Tigress while searching for the Polaris gave him an keeper; Bcoby Willard Morrison. George Gardner,  ardent desire to undertake the present voyage, in Jr., Patrick Cahill, machinists; Herbrt P. de   which he seems to take the deepest Interest, in com. Tracy, acting carpenter.  Also, 1 steward, 2 cocks,  mon with all on board. One officer said yesterday:
3 firemen and 15 able-bodied seamen.           .. You could not hire me to remain behind."
Lient Berry, the able Commander of he Rodgers,  From personal observation we are well satisfied is a strong muscular, heavy but symetrically built  that a prettier modelled and better fitted vessel man, over six feet in height, of agreeable disposi-  never sailed on an Arctic exploring expedition. tion firm  purpose, quick and thorough in the   May every success attend her. and her brave officers despatch of business, and very carefnl of details.  and gallant crew. As an accomplished officer of the United States
EXTRACT FROM A LETTER
ADDRESSED TO THE
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
BY
COL. CHARLES S. BULKLEY
Late Engineer in Chief of the Collins Overland Telegraph.
Having noticed the statement that, in the opinion  Again, in the Summer of 1866, theeinvestigation Of Dr. William H. Dall, no part of the huro ShiWo  was renewed, and numerous crossings were carefully or Japanese warm stream pasres northward through  examined at different times, and the same nearly Bering atrait into the Arctic Ocean, and claiming  constant current moving northward was ascertained that the U. 8. Ooast Survey schooner Yukon, while  and measured. This seemed an increasing flow of in his charge, during the B ummer of 1880, when  warmer currents only, and checked in its surface by anchored near the Diomede Islands, In the narrows  strong North winds.  Throgh Senevaine Strait, of Bering Strait, swung with she tide, permit me  which is part of Bering Strait, separated from the to say in regard to tidal currents ii Bering Strait.  main body of waters by Kayne Island, the same that it appears to me that he must have anchored  northward current pursues its steady way. Dr. Dall his vessel in some eddy ctusea by the obstruction  may easily, have been led astray, for swinging which the Diomedes present o the almost onstant  as anchor in the whirling waters, under the lee of northerly flow of water which I observed setting  great rocks, like the Diomedes, might readily misinto the Arctic Ocean in the Summer and early An.  lead the most wary. tnmn of 1865, when I thoroughly sonnded and ex.                Very Beepactfully,
amined most carefully the bottom, and especially                       CazLS S. BULELEv.
noted the currents of this Etrait, for in'ormation  SAN FBAxCIsOO, Cal., June 6th, 1881. necessary in selecting a telegraphic cable bed for
this crossing.