THE DANISH ARCTIC STATION 15 
Station and by other workers, has already been 
published. The building is at present too small to 
meet the increasing demands upon it and additions 
are in contemplation. Its conception and erection 
are due to the energy and determination of Mr 
Morten P. Porsild (M.Sc. of the University of 
Copenhagen), who, with the help of grants from 
private sources, equipped the very comfortable 
building which was taken over by the Danish 
Government with Mr Porsild as the first Director 
in 1906. It would be difficult to find a more suit- 
able place for the training of men desirous of 
qualifying themselves for scientific Polar explora- 
tion or a man better fitted by knowledge and 
experience than the present Director to superin- 
tend not only the necessary scientific work, but 
also to give instruction in sledging and in other 
useful arts. Writers of books or scientific papers 
on Polar exploration or natural history render good 
service to science by sending copies of their pub- 
lications to the ‘Director of the Danish Arctic 
Station, Godhavn, Greenland, via Copenhagen.’ 
The building, including a well-equipped labora- 
tory, a library, and living rooms, is situated at the 
foot of the low hills of gneiss close to the shore of 
Disko Bay behind which the flat-topped hills of 
horizontal basaltic lava and volcanic ash rise to a 
height of over 2000 ft. (Frontispiece). My bed- 
room windows looked out across the bay to the 
low rocky islands in the distance which lie between 
Disko Island and the Greenland coast: near the 
beach, a few hundred yards from the house, groups 
