EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 15, 1882_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:
I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Navy,
dated the 8th instant, and accompanying copies of letters from
Rear-Admiral John Rodgers, Superintendent of the Naval Observatory,
Professor J. E. Nourse, United States Navy, and Hon. John Eaton,
Commissioner of Education, suggesting the publication of a second
edition of the Second Arctic Expedition made by Captain C. F. Hall.