io A SUMMER IN GREENLAND 
Island, and are shown more clearly on Map B. 
Some of the places we visited are not marked on 
Map B, but our motor-boat routes are indicated 
by the dotted lines. With the exception of Uper- 
nivik Island (a short distance north of lat. 71° N.) 
most of the places at which we landed in the course 
of the motor-boat trips were visited by members 
of the American Peary Arctic Expedition of 1897 
for the collection of geological specimens and 
plants and animals. So far as I know, that is the 
last occasion in recent years prior to 1921 on 
which an expedition with the collection of fossils 
as the main objective visited West Greenland. A 
general account of the American Expedition was 
published in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of 
America, vol. 1x, 1898. 
It is perhaps not generally known that Greenland 
is a ‘closed’ country; the trade in skins, seal oil, 
eiderdown, fish, and other products is a Govern- 
ment monopoly and no foreigner or even Danes 
are allowed to go there unless they have some 
definite purpose in view which is considered satis- 
factory by the Director for Greenland. A few 
steamers and sailing ships go direct from Copen- 
hagen in the summer, and of these the S.S. ‘Hans 
Egede,’ on which we returned from Greenland in 
September, is the best known. The ship is seen in 
Egedesminde harbour in Fig. 3. On embarkation 
everyone must produce a medical certificate signed 
by a Danish doctor. The ‘Hans Egede,’ being 
built for navigation in seas where ice is abundant, 
is without a bilge-keel and has a well-deserved 
