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Stockholm, was kind enough to have a most excellent room placed at my 

 disposal, in which to conduct the experiments. Some instruments were lent 

 by Stockholms Hogskola. H. M. Foreign Office were so good as to publish 

 in the autumn of 1901 an appeal by the author in a great number of foreign 

 newspapers with the object of collecting accounts on dead-water. Dr. Charles 

 J. J. Fox kindly read the whole manuscript as well as the proofs, and with 

 great advantage improved the English. To all those who have in these and 

 other ways assisted, and last but not least to seamen and others interested, 

 who have left valuable communications on dead-water, I here desire to present 

 my sincere thanks. 



Kristiania, June, 1904. 



V. WALFRID EKMAN. 



