CONTACT WITH INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE 



By ToRBEN Wolff 



When frontiers are closed scientific research stagnates. We had a good 

 example of this in Germany during the Nazi regime, and even in Den- 

 mark the five years of occupation imposed limits on free research. No 

 science can thrive without foreign contacts. And oceanography, concerned 

 with the physical conditions of the oceans, their flora and fauna, and 

 the utilization of these for the benefit of hungry man, is surely one of the 

 most international of all the sciences. The sea affects us all, at once sepa- 

 rating and uniting us; and practically every civilized nation has made its 

 contribution, large or small, to its exploration. 



It follows that during the planning of the Galathea Expedition con- 

 siderable importance was attached to the development of contacts with 

 scientists and scientific institutions wherever its work might lead it. The 



Dr. R. A. Falla, New Zealand, causes a stir in the penguin colony of Campbell Island. 



