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Title: By the commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, &c. ...To Horatio T. Austin, Esq., C.B., captain of Her Majesty's Ship "Resolute," in charge of an expedition to the Arctic Sea
Identifier(s): text:835; APSimg6716; Goodman Number: 317
Description: Copy of Austin's military orders to search the Arctic Sea for the missing ships, Erebus and Terror, under the command of Sir John Franklin (see also Goodman #314). Signed in type by F. T. Baring, M. F. F. Berkeley, and J. Parker. ; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Great Britain. Admiralty
Source: Elisha Kent Kane Papers. Printed Material. (Mss.B.K132.p); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.K132.p-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857; Arctic regions; Discovery & exploration; Grinnell Expedition
Date: 1850

Title: H. M. S. _____ __th of _____ 18__ Lat. _____ Long._____ _____ Commander...Whoever finds this paper is requested to forward it to the Secretary of the Admiralty, London, with a note of the time and place at which it was found
Identifier(s): text:839; APSimg6709; Goodman Number: 321
Description: Identical text in six different languages: English, French, Spanish, Danish, Dutch and Russian. From the papers of John K. Kane, father of Elisha Kent Kane, the Arctic explorer.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Great Britain. Admiralty
Source: Elisha Kent Kane Papers. Printed Material. (Mss.B.K132.p); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.K132.p-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857; Grinnell Expedition; Discovery & exploration; Arctic regions
Date: 18__