Lieutenant Peary's Lecture.

Lieutenant Peary, the Arctic explorer, delivered a popular rather than a scientific lecture on "Greenland, the Arctic Island Continent," in the Fogg Lecture Room last evening. The lecture was illustrated throughout by stereopticon views of photographs which Lieutenant Peary took on his last Arctic trip. The personal tone given by the lecturer added much to the interest of the subject.

Lieutenant Peary began his lecture by describing the position of Greenland, the earliest known Arctic land, which was first supposed to from a great Arctic continent, but is now known to be an island. It is by passing from the northernmost point of this island through the open sea that Lieutenant Peary thinks the North Pole will be reached. The old supposition that a volcano or deep hole would be found at the Pole is now discarded, and explorers expect to find there either land or an open ocean. The pole is now only 260 miles from the farthest northern point reached, and Lieutenant Peary stated it as a certainty that it will soon be discovered.

Lieutenant Peary than explained the geological structure of Greeland and geological structure of Greeland and closed his lecture with a description of his ship and captains, the animals of the Arctic regions, and a short account of his return from a perilous sledge trip overland.