44 THÉEL, NORTHERN AND ARCTIC INVERTEBRATES. I. SIPUNCULIDS. 
1894. 
A. OHLIN, Ph. D. (Zoologist, Crustacea). 
Object: To try to find traces of the missing Swedish Expedition under BJÖRLING 
and KALLSTENIUS. For this purpose he was allowed to accompamny the "Peary Au- 
xiliary Expedition”, under the leadership of Henry G. Bryant, on board the Falcon, 
a steam-whaler. 
Hxtent: Greenland ete.: Godhavn, Upernavik, Cape York, the Carey Islands, Ingle- 
field Gulf, Cape Faraday, Clarence Head, Jones Sound, Bowdoin Bay, etc. 
Duration: The FALCON started from St. Johns, Newfoundland on the 7th of 
July; left the FALCON in Godhavn on the 2nd of September and arrived, on a 
Danish vessel, at Copenhagen on the 19th of October. 
Ways and Means: Donations from OSCAR DICKSON, etc. 
1896. 
(Swedish Aretie Expedition.) 
Leader: GO. DE GEER, Ph. D. (Geologist). 
Staff of Scientists: O. Vv. KNORRING, Lieutenant (Cartographer), and OC. A. 
HANSSON, Conservator (Zoologist). 
Object: To make geological surveys in the Ice Fjord in Spitzbergen, to chart 
that Fjord and to make zoological investigations. 
FExtent: On board the "Virgo", Andrée's steamer, the Expedition left Tromsoe, 
on the l4th of June, for Ice Fjord on the West Coast of Spitzbergen. 
Duration: The Expedition left Tromsoe on the l4th of June and returned there 
on board the sloop "Malygen'" in the middle of September. 
Ways and Means: Donations from H. M. the King of Sweden, Oscar Dickson 
and Fr. Binsow. 
1896 & 1897. 
(Swedish Aretic Expeditions.) 
S. Å. ANDRÉE, Engineer (Aeronaut), head of the proposed balloon expedition 
to the North-pole. ; 
Staff of Scientists: N. EKHoLrm, Ph. D. (Meteorologist), N. STRINDBERG, Phil. 
Cand. (Physicist) and K. FRENKEL (Engineer), both members of the balloon expedition 
S. ARRHENIUS, Ph. D., Professor (Physicist and Chemist, Hydrographer), OC: EKELUND, 
M. D., G. GRÖNBERG, Phil. Cand. (Zoologist), and H. LACHAMBRE (Balloonist). 
Vessel: The steamboat "Virgo". 
Sailing-Master: Captain H. L, ZACHAU. 
