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NATURE 



[December i, 1910 



Being now a few hours ahead of time, our captain took 

 us up the lovely Lyngen Fiord, in glorious weather, wiih 

 a sprinkle of new snow on all the peaks. Thus were 

 we reconciled to the loss of Hornsund. And at Tromso 

 in the afternoon we returned to the world of telegrams, 

 letters and newspapers. 



Of the after-voyage through the fiords to Trondhjem it 

 is enough to say that the weather remained perfect ; and 

 that Dr. Hans Reusch, the Director of the Norwegian 

 Survey, was of our company, so that we missed nothing 

 that could be learnt in passing. At Trondhjem, moreover, 

 on August 14, we had time, under Dr. Reusch 's guidance, 

 to visit the high strand-lines near the city and to examine 

 the scientific and artistic collections in its museums, finish- 

 ing the day with a pleasant reunion at one of the hotels. 

 Here we left our ship, taking train on the morning of 

 August 15 up the fine valley that leads across the Swedish 

 frontier. \\'e reached Are in Jjimtland in the afternoon, 



went eastward until evening across the ground we had 

 seen from the summit of Areskutan, past the great Lake 

 Storjon, and reached Stockholm, exactly on time, before 

 breakfast on the morning of Wednesday, August 17. The 

 initial reception of the members of the congress was held 

 in .Stockholm on the evening of that day. 



To those who did not share in the pilgrimage this recital 

 of our itinerary can at the best convey only a feeble idea 

 of its advantages. Not the new country alone and the 

 new experiences, but above all, the constant association 

 and intercourse of men of different nationahties and out- 

 looks, with interests in common which- they were ever 

 ready to discuss together — this it was that gave peculiar 

 value to the journey, as to all journeys of the same type. 

 Deeply indeed were we indebted to our leader, Prof. G. 

 De Geer, and to the accomplished lady, his wife, for the 

 whole-hearted enthusiasm which they threw into the 

 difficult task of planning, guiding, and demonstrating in 



Photo, by Oscar Halldin, Stockhelm.\ [Reproduced by kind permission 0/ Prof. G. de Gccr. 



Fig. 3.— North end of Cora Island, Ekman Bay ; showing the Sefstrom moraine of shelly clay, to theteftof the inlet, and a portion of the original 



island to the right. 



in time to make the ascent of Mt. Areskutan (4620 feet) 

 for the sake of the view from its summit over an immense 

 range of lower lake-country to the eastward. The glacial 

 phenomena of this region are like those of Tornetrask 

 on a grander scale ; the same evidence for a succession of 

 glacier-dammed lakes, at first discharging westward over 

 the watershed into Norway ; the same shrinkage of the 

 ice-sheet from the western mountain-rim to the lower 

 eastern country ; the same westward transport of the 

 boulders. On the lop of Areskutan there are boulders 

 which have come from places far away to the eastward at 

 much lower altitudes. 



In the evening Prof. C. Wiman joined us at Are ; and 

 next morning, under his leadership, we visited sections 

 near the Are Lake, which show the fossiliferous Lower 

 Palaeozoic succession. We were able also to appreciate 

 the evidence for a gigantic overthrust of the metamorphic 

 rocks from the westward over the unaltered Palaeozoics. 

 Leaving Are by train in the afternoon of August 16, we 

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varied languages so that the time at our disposal should 

 always be profitably spent ; and even still more for the 

 happ}' spirit of friendliness and geniality which they 

 imparted to the whole expedition. Much also we owed to 

 Mr. B. Hogbom for his share in the direction of our party 

 in Spitsbergen, and to Dr. Hj. Lundbohm, Prof. C. 

 Wiman, and Dr. O. Sjogren for their aid in Sweden, whili 

 Mr. C. Carlzon and Mr. H. Ahlmann were our ever- 

 obliging helpers and interpreters. In our admiration for 

 the extraordinary skill • with which every stage of the 

 journey was arranged, we could not fail to recognise the 

 thoughtful solicitude of our physician and treasurer, Dr. 

 J. W. Nordenson, of whose high qualities as an organiser 

 we had daily proof. 



Brief must be our reference to the constitution of the 

 party. The British geologists were lamentably few — 

 G. A. J. Cole, A. P. Coleman, A. Strahan, and the writer 

 — but, for the occasion, we will count with us n'so the 

 U.S. Americans, R. S. Tarr, Miss F. Bascom, Miss Z. 

 Baber, and Miss E. Rice. The German and Austrian 



