THE SECOND EXPEDITION 



The second expedition consisting of seven mem- 

 bers included four who had been on the first ex- 

 pedition in the preceding year, namely: the direc- 

 tor, Belknap who was now second-in-command, 

 Church, and Oscanyan. New members were Clar- 

 ence R. Kallquist of the U. S. Weather Bureau, 

 who replaced Fergusson as aerologist; Fred Herz 

 of Reno, Nevada, expert mechanic and photog- 

 rapher; and Carl O. Erlanson of the botany de- 

 partment of the University of Michigan, a Scan- 

 dinavian-American fellow and the botanist of the 

 expedition. 



The sailing of the Disko was delayed until June 

 5th, making time available which we employed in 

 getting all supplies on board and adding material 

 purchased from Denmark. Besides our own ex- 

 pedition the Disko had on board two small Danish 

 scientific expeditions; one of them sent out to find 

 a suitable place for laying out a base line and be- 

 ginning a triangulation, for the Danish Govern- 

 ment has decided to prepare a modern map of their 

 one great colony. The other expedition was to 

 make a careful determination of the longitude at 

 Kornok near Godthaab, the southern capital, and 

 compare this with an earlier determination so as 

 to test the modern Wegener theory of continental 

 drift. 



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