THE DANISH ARCTIC STATION 15 



Station and by other workers, has already been 

 published. The building is at present too small to 

 meet the increasing demands upon it and additions 

 are in contemplation. Its conception and erection 

 are due to the energy and determination of Mr 

 Morten P. Porsild (M.Sc. of the University of 

 Copenhagen), who, with the help of grants from 

 private sources, equipped the very comfortable 

 building which was taken over by the Danish 

 Government with Mr Porsild as the first Director 

 in 1906. It would be difficult to find a more suit- 

 able place for the training of men desirous of 

 qualifying themselves for scientific Polar explora- 

 tion or a man better fitted by knowledge and 

 experience than the present Director to superin- 

 tend not only the necessary scientific work, but 

 also to give instruction in sledging and in other 

 useful arts. Writers of books or scientific papers 

 on Polar exploration or natural history render good 

 service to science by sending copies of their pub- 

 lications to the 'Director of the Danish Arctic 

 Station, Godhavn, Greenland, via Copenhagen.' 

 The building, including a well-equipped labora- 

 tory, a library, and living rooms, is situated at the 

 foot of the low hills of gneiss close to the shore of 

 Disko Bay behind which the flat-topped hills of 

 horizontal basaltic lava and volcanic ash rise to a 

 height of over 2000 ft. (Frontispiece). My bed- 

 room windows looked out across the bay to the 

 low rocky islands in the distance which lie between 

 Disko Island and the Greenland coast: near the 

 beach, a few hundred yards from the house, groups 



