The botanical collections made by Mr. H. G. Simmons and the 

 geological and palseontological collections made by Mr. P. Schei prove 

 to be of vast scientific value. 



On the return to Norway, the leader of the Expedition, Capt. Otto 

 SvERDRUP, under the title "New Land, Four Years in the Polar Regions," 

 published a popular narrative of the doings of the Expedition, which 

 book has been translated into several languages. 



The Society of Arts and Sciences of Christiania, has undertaken the 

 revision of the material, the pecuniary means with great liberality being 

 provided by the trustees of the Fridtjof Nansen Fund for the Advancement 

 of Science 



As Editing Committee, the Society of Arts and Science elected Prof. 

 Dr. W. C. Br0gger, Prof. Dr. R. Collett, Prof. Dr. G. Guldberg, Prof. 

 Dr. H. MoHN, and Prof. Dr. N. Wille, and these gentlemen appointed as 

 Managing Editoi- the energetic geologist of the Expedition Mr. P. Schei. 



Mr. Schei succeeded in inducing a number of eminent specialists in 

 various countries to join in the work, and the treatises began to appear 

 in print; he, however, was seized with a severe illness and after long 

 suffering the promising career of this amiable and talented scientist 

 came a close on 1^' Nov. 1905. 



The Editing Committee then entrusted to their fellow member of 

 Committee, Professor Wille, the publication of the remaining sections 

 of the scientific results of the Expedition. 



The Report of the Second Norwegian Arctic Expedition in the Fram 

 1898 — 1902 will be published in numbers or parts, at indefinite periods, 

 containing a series of special treatises in the order in which they are 

 made ready for the press. 



The first volume contains the following treatises: 

 No. 1. A. G. Nathorst, Die oberdevonische Flora des Ellesmere-Lands. 



— 2. H. G. Simmons, The Vascular Plants in the Flora of Ellesmere 



Land. 



— 3. Embr. Strand, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera and 



Araneae. 



— 4. H. MoHN, Meteorology. 



The second volume contains the following treatises: 

 No. 5. GuNNAR Isachsen, Astronomical and Geodetical Observations. 



— 6. Aksel S. Steen, Terrestrial Magnetism. 



— 7. E. KiTTL, Die Triasfossilien vom Heureka Sund. 



