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1906 made a journey to Ivigtut in West Greenland with the Polar 

 vessel "Fox П" of the Cryolite Company. 



3. The artist painter Aage Bertelsen, born September 28th 

 1873 in Næstved. 



4. The artist painter Achton Friis, born September 5th 1871 

 in Trustrup in Djursland. 



5. First-lieutenant in the Infantry, Niels Peter Høeg-Hagen, 

 born October 15th 1877 in Gunderstedgaard by Nibe. Cartographer. 



6. Stud, polyt. Hakon Høeg Jarner, born January 26th 1882 

 at Bogense. Geologist. 



7. Stud. mag. Fritz Johansen, born July 17th 1882 in Copen- 

 hagen. Zoologist (investigations on the lower land and freshwater 

 fauna and zoological marine investigations). 



In the summer of 1905 Fritz Johansen had carried out zoologi- 

 cal investigations round about Iceland onboard the Navy inspection 

 ship "Beskytteren". 



8. Cand. med. et chir. Jens Peter Johannes Lindhard, born 

 April 25th 1870 in Dalby near Thureby (Sjælland). Doctor. 



In 1899 — 1900 Lindhard had been the doctor at Ivigtut and at 

 the outpost Arsuk in South Greenland. 



9. Cand. phil. Andreas Lundager, born July 6th 1869 in Omvraa 

 near Vejle. Botanist. 



Lundager had been two years as private tutor in West Green- 

 land from 1903 — 1904 inUmanak and from 1904 — 1905 in Egedesminde. 



10. First-lieutenanti Johan Peter Koch, of the General Staff, 

 born January 15th 1870 in Vestenskov near Naksov. Director of 

 the land surveying. 



In 1900 Koch had taken part in Amdrup's expedition to East 

 Greenland, where he had done excellent service and from which he 

 brought home valuable cartographic material ^. Further, in 1902, 

 1903 and 1904 Koch had directed in a most successful manner 3 ex- 

 peditions sent out by the topographical division of the General Staff 

 to southern Iceland, where the almost inaccessible Skejdararsandur 

 and the southern part of Vatnajökull were topographically surveyed 

 and investigated. Koch had also had no little experience of seaman- 

 ship and, among other things, had qualified as master of small ships. 



11. Head teacher Arner Ludvig Valdemar Manniche, born 

 February 19th 1867 in Gundsømagle at Roskilde. Zoologist (was 

 really engaged as ornithologist, but at Mylius-Erichsen's request also 

 took over the study of the land mammals). 



12. Dr. phil. Alfred Lothar Wegener, Assistant at the Royal 

 Aeronautical Observatory in Lindenberg, born November 1880 in 

 Berhn. Meteorologist and physicist. 



1 During the Expedition Koch was promoted to Captain. 

 ^ Meddelelser om Grönland. Bd. XXVII, p. 273. 



