Andree

Andree, SALOMON AUGUST, Swedish engineer, born in 1854, was examiner to the Patents Office when in 1896 he undertook a balloon voyage to the North Pole. With two others he started from Danes' Island on 11th July 1897. Till the expedition in search of him in 1899, rumours, soon proved baseless, were current of messages from him having drifted ashore on northern coasts, or of relics of him and his balloon found in Siberia or elsewhere.