THE IRON ORE SUPPLY OF THE SCANDINAVIAN PENINSULA. 345 
of Narvik, should not exceed 1:2 M.T. a year. Later on, when one single 
company—the Grangesberg Company—had managed to control nine-tenths 
of the ore supplies of Sweden, and the annual export of ore exceeded 
3 M.T., a strong movement for laying an export duty on iron ore arose. 
In the meantime several new investigations of the supplies of the 
larger deposits had been made, and these having shown that an increase 
of the export could be allowed without any danger of a premature 
exhaustion of the deposits, an agreement between the Government ‘and 
the Grangesberg Company was made, which was this year confirmed by 
the Riksdag. 
According to this agreement the Grangesberg Company was allowed 
to export up to 3:5 M.T. in the year by way of the port of Narvik, but 
the company became subject to several severe conditions. Thus the 
company had to allow the State to enter as a shareholder for half the 
amount of the joint capital without any payment, and, furthermore 
to give over to the State all the rights to the mines of Luossavaara, 
Ekstrémsberg, and Mertainen, representing, according to the above calcu- 
lations, more than 50 M.T. of ore. In the year 1932 the State will have 
the right to buy also the other mines on certain terms. During the 
period of twenty-five years from 1907 to 1932 no more than 75 M.T. may 
be exported from Kiirunnavaara, and no more than 18:75 M.T. from 
Gellivare. If the State should make use of its right to buy the mines in 
1932, the company must prove that at that time there are left at least 
150 M.T. in Kiirunnavaara, and at least 37°5 M.T. in Gellivare. In 
order to guarantee the home manufacture the necessary ore supply, it is 
provided in the agreement that the export of ore low in phosphorus from 
certain parts of Kiirunnavaara shall be prohibited, and that the export of 
ore from Grangesberg has to be gradually reduced. 
It may be thought surprising that a country without coal supplies 
should be so anxious to save the ore deposits necessary for a great iron 
industry. But in Sweden we look forward with confidence to the time 
when we may utilise our peat mosses and our water power for electrical 
smelting in the metallurgy of iron. This time may be remote, but it will 
certainly come. The peat mosses in Sweden only are estimated at 
5,000 M.T. dry peat, corresponding to about 2,500 M.T. of coal. And 
the water power available for electrical energy is practically unlimited. 
The Fossil Flora of the Transvaal_—Report of the Committee, consisting 
of Professor J. W. GREGORY (Chairman), Professor A. C. SEWARD 
(Secretary), and Mr. T. N. LEsir, appointed ‘ to enable Mr. T. N. 
Leslie to continue his Researches into the Fossil Flora of the 
Transvaal.’ 
Mr. T. N. Lestim has made further collections of plants from the lower 
Karroo beds of Vereeniging, and these have been described in a joint 
paper by Professor A. C. Seward and Mr. Leslie. It is hoped the paper 
will be published during the coming winter. 
The Committee do not ask for reappointment. 
