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Einar Lonnberg, I was permitted to examine and study cetacean 

 skeletal material belonging to the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum at 

 Freskati on the outskirts of Stockholm. In the well-arranged cetacean 

 hall of this museum are exhibited a fine skeleton, including complete 

 sets of baleen, of the now nearly extinct Greenland whale, as well as 

 skeletons of the southern right whale, Atlantic right whale, blue, 

 finback, Bryde's whale, sei whale, little piked whale, bottlenose and 

 other beaked whales, killer and southern right whale porpoise. The 

 Nordiska Museet, with an indoor section recreating Sweden's past 

 cultural history and an out-doors section, Skansen, located on a high 

 elevation overlooking Stockholm, which is a living museum, give the 

 visitor pleasant impressions of old Swedish folk life. From Stock- 

 holm I made a side trip to Uppsala where I was enabled to examine, 

 in the Geological Institute of the University, the subfossil remains of 

 a whale from Graso, Gulf of Bothnia, that formed the basis for 

 Lilljeborg's Eschrichtius robustus. These bones exhibited the char- 

 acteristic features of the present day North Pacific gray whale. 



Leaving Stockholm on June 2, we traveled by train to Malmo and 

 thence by ferry to Copenhagen. In the absence of Dr. M. Degerbpl, 

 Dr. F. W. Braestrup showed me the cetacean material that I wished 

 to examine. The University Zoological Museum possesses an excel- 

 lent though very much crowded collection of cetacean skeletons, in- 

 cluding an adult male Greenland whale, a large male sperm whale, 

 an exceptionally large hyperoodon, and more than 65 mounted skele- 

 tons of toothed whales, ranging in size from the small harbor porpoise 

 to killer whales. At the Geological Museum, Prof. J. P. J. Ravn was 

 kind enough to show me the fossil cetaceans that had been found in 

 Denmark. 



It was necessary for us to return to Oslo to make arrangements for 

 the journey to England. We left Oslo at the time the trees were fully 

 leaved and the lilacs in full bloom. As we traveled toward Bergen 

 on June 6, our train climbed gradually to an elevation of 4,000 feet, 

 where winter still held its grip. Xot a vestige of a budding shrub was 

 visible, and the ice, snow, and shadows cast an unforgetable pattern 

 of black and white on the hill slopes. The descent from the summit 

 carried the train through several long tunnels. When the mist had 

 cleared from our compartment windows we saw pussy willows and the 

 unfolding buds of birch trees. We had thus witnessed spring for the 

 third time this year : at home before sailing, at our arrival in southern 

 Norway, and here once more near Bergen. 



The day following our arrival at Bergen, we visited first the Han- 

 seatiske Museum and the restored row of old hanseatic houses along 



