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Sailing-Master: Captaim MARCUS JOHNSEN. 
Object: To study the natural history of Spitzbergen. 
Extent: Horn Sound, Bel Sound, Middlehook, Ice Fjord (Green-harbour, Skans 
Bay, Advent Bay ete.), Norsköarne, Verlegen Hook, Red Bay, etc. 
Duration: The "Lofoten" sailed from Tromsoe on the 27th of May and returned 
there on the 2lst of August. 
Ways and Means: At their own expense assisted by OSCAR DICKSON. 
1892. 
Leader: J. ÅA. BJÖRLING, Undergraduate (Botanist). 
Companion Investigator: E. KALLSTENIUS, Phil. Cand. (Zoologist, Oligochaeta). 
Object: They left for St. John's in Newfoundland in the Spring, in order to 
investigate the HEllesmere Land, etc. The expedition was lost with all hands, and 
only some few notices about them were found on Carey Island. At the charges of 
the Geographical Society and of private imdividuals. 
1892. 
A. HAMBERG, Ph. D. (Geologist and Physicist). 
Object: To study geological formations and the glaciation in the Aretic Sea, 
especially in Spitzbergen. For this purpose he accompanied the Norwegian sloop 
Gjöa”, sailing-master Captain H. E. JOHANNESEN, and visited Bear Island, Ice Fjord, 
Kings Bay, Stor Fiord, Hope Island, ete. On the 9th of August he embarked on 
another Norwegian sloop "Cecilie Malene", Captain M. ARNESEN, and returned to 
Norway. 
Duration: He left Tromsoe on the llth of May and was back agaiim on the 
l3th of August. 
Ways and Means: A grant out of the Vega Funds. 
1894. 
E. NILSSON, Forester (Naturalist, Sportsman). 
Object: To seek for traces of the missing Swedish Expedition under BJÖRLING 
and KALLSTENIUS. For this purpose he aceompanied the Scottish whaler "Eclipse". 
He also intended to make collections of marine animals. 
Extent: Round the Davis Strait and Baffin Bay. 
Duration: The first dredging is dated in the journal the 28th of April and the 
last the 21st of October. 
Ways and Means: At the expense of private individuals. 
