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importance were the physiologico-meclicinal preparations, 

 to which Professor Torup devoted particular care. 



As it might be of the utmost importance in several 

 contingencies to have good sledge-dogs, I applied to my 

 friend. Baron Edward von Toll, of St. Petersbure, and 

 asked him whether it was possible to procure serviceable 

 animals from Siberia.* With great courtesy Von Toll 

 replied that he thought he himself could arrange this for 

 me, as he was just on the point of undertaking his sec- 

 ond scientific expedition to Siberia and the New Siberian 

 Islands. He proposed to send the dogs to Khabarova, 

 on Yugor Strait. On his journey through Tiumen in 

 January, 1893, t)y the help of an English merchant 

 named Wardroper, who resided there, he engaged Alex- 

 ander Ivanovitch Trontheim to undertake the purchase 

 of thirty Ostiak dogs and their conveyance to Yugor 

 Strait But Von Toll was not content with this. Mr, 

 Nikolai Kelch having offered to bear the expense, my 

 friend procured the East Siberian dogs, which are ac- 

 knowledged to be better draught dogs than those of 

 West Siberia (Ostiak dogs), and Johan Torgersen, a 

 Norwegian, undertook to deliver them at the mouth of 

 the Olenek, where it was arranged that we should touch. 



Von Toll, moreover, thought it would be important to 

 establish some depots of provisions on the New Siberian 



* I had thought of procuring dogs from the Eskimo of Greenland and 

 Hudson Bay, but there proved to be insuperable difficulties in the way of 

 getting them conveyed from there. 



