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It is desirable to take photographs and drawings of localities 

 possessing geological interest. 



Sign. 



G. F. Wandel. К. J. V. Steenstrup. G. Holm. 



It is very extensive investigations that are demanded in these 

 instructions, and it v^^as clear to me, even before starting, that much 

 would have to be left undone, moreover, that much of the infor- 

 mation wanted could not possibly be procured in the measure of 

 time that was at the disposal of the expedition, and finally, that it 

 would be more than a single man could do to fulfil the whole task 

 properly under the particular circumstances. 



In the course of the exploring journey I was still more con- 

 vinced of this, and I soon had to admit that nothing but an utterly 

 fragmentary work could be done, still less than I had imagined. 



The difficulties of our geographical main task were much 

 greater than expected, the objections we met with demanded such 

 an amount of energy, strength, and time that only a minimum of 

 these latter was left for science of nature, a minimum which луаз 

 not even always allowed to work under circumstances of a merely 

 passably favourable kind. As will appear from the following report, 

 and as already stated by the chief of the expedition, only very small 

 collections could be carried along, and these collections were made 

 in accidentally chosen places, where the ice or our exhaustion 

 forced us to make for the land, almost always on the outside sea 

 cliffs or in direct vicinity of the sea, where circumstances were the 

 very worst for animal and vegetable life. Only on single occasions 

 circumstances were more favourable as to biology, and our results 

 consequently better, but even then anything but a most superficial 

 investigation was out of the question, as time Avas short — in the 

 most favourable locality visited by me „Søndre Bræfjord " all my 

 stay on shore lasted 105 minutes which time was mostly spent in 

 noting the rather abundant flora of the place. On the other hand 

 our only prolonged stay unfortunately had to be on a little sea 

 cliff „Sten-Ø", where investigations to even a moderate extent were 

 naturally rendered most difficult, as the part of the island in which 

 we had settled was separated by several almost impassable clefts 



