GREELY, ADOLPHUS WASHINGTON American soldier and scientist, was born at Newburyport, Mass., March 27, 1844. Enlisting in 1861 as a private in the Civil War, he rose to be brevet major. In 1867 he was appointed second lieutenant in the regular army and became chief signal officer and brigadier general. While commanding at Lady Franklin bay, one of the 13 international circumpolar stations, 1881-84, he reached, in 1882, 24' N., 42° 45' W., the farthest N. at that time. Two relief expeditions failed to reach him, and when the third, under Capt. Schley, rescued him at Cape Sabine, all but seven of his party were dead. From 1887 to 1906 he administered the Weather bureau and the Signal Corps. Under him were built more than 2 5,000m. of cables and telegraph lines in Alaska, China, Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands. Promoted major general in 1906, he conducted relief operations in San Francisco and put down the Ute rebellion. He served with the international telegraph conference, London, 1904, at the request of the British Government and was dean of the American delegation to the wire less conference at Berlin that year. He wrote extensively on meteorological, electrical, geographical and other subjects. His most popular volumes are Three Years of Arctic Service (r886); Handbook of Polar Discoveries (19o9) ; True Tales of Arctic Heroism ; Handbook of Alaska (1925); Reminiscences of Adventure (192 7) ; and Polar Regions of the Twentieth Century (1928).