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A visit by Samoan students. 



The commander of the old corvette Galathea, i\.dmiral Steen Bille, 

 wrote in his report of the arrival at Plymouth: "The next morning at 8 

 o'clock we saluted the fortress with 2 1 guns and the British admiral's flag 

 with 17 guns, to which an equivalent number were given in reply." Just 

 over a hundred years later, when the frigate Galathea called at Plymouth 

 on her world voyage, the ceremony was repeated. And as the mist rose 

 we saw in front of the fortress the large grey building which houses one 

 of Europe's oldest marine biological stations, and which has been visited 

 by all Danish oceanographical expeditions in the present century. Profes- 

 sor Johannes Schmidt and his assistants had stopped here in the trawler 

 Thor and later the Dana, before proceeding on their way to more distant 

 places, and the Danish Atlantide Expedition to West Africa had also 

 been given a send-off from here. True to past tradition, there was open 

 house at Plymouth to visitors from the Galathea, and we in turn proudly 

 exhibited our ship to many expert and envious friends and colleagues. 

 Two years later they were the first to welcome us back to Europe after 



