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of Nova Scotia later in the year. This was effected in Novemher, the voyage occupy- 

 inig the time from the 14th to the 22nd of that month. The route followed will be 

 found charted on fig. 8, p. 374. 



These cruises yielded altogether a very lai-ge amount of material, the treatment 

 of which naturally called for the services of several experts. Needless to say, I had 

 looked forward to taking part in this work myself, but as it turned out I was pre- 



Fiff. 5. 



vented from so doing, as on my return to Norway in September, lOl.'J, 1 found myself 

 compelled to devote my whole time and energy thenceforward to the handling of 

 important questions in connection with the Norwegian fishing industry, which in the 

 autumn of that year was in a critical state. Under these circumstances, it was a 

 great satisfaction to me to know that the material was to be dealt with by pre-emin- 

 ently competent hands. A complete and exhaustive treatment of the whole of the 



