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happened that Jansen had just received a letter from 
Captain Allen Young, and another from myself, asking 
whether a young Dutch naval officer could not be 
appointed to serve in the Pandora. Jansen warmly 
sympathised with the aspirations of the young officer, 
and he received permission to join the vessel. 
Beynen could not fail to learn much under such a 
splendid seaman as Allen Young, and he became 
acquainted with ice navigation in its many phases 
during the season of 1875, returning with much knowledge 
and increased enthusiasm. In the winter of 1876, at my 
request, he undertook to edit a second edition of the 
voyages of Barentsz for the Hakluyt Society. The work 
entailed much research, and he accomplished it with 
diligence and considerable literary ability. It is a standard 
work which is frequently referred to. Beynen then 
served under Allen Young in the second voyage of the 
Pandora and proved himself to be very useful in peculiarly 
trying circumstances 1 . 
Beynen was for a short time in the training ship 
for boys, cruising in the North Sea, and he then devoted 
himself heart and soul to the Arctic propaganda, delivering 
lectures all over the country. His bright enthusiasm was 
infectious, and an influential Arctic Committee was 
formed 2 . Sufficient funds were collected to enable the com- 
mittee to build a small schooner at Amsterdam, specially 
strengthened for ice navigation. She was launched 
on April 6th, 1878, and named the Willem Barentsz. 
Lieut. A. de Bruyne received the command and Koolemans 
Beynen went as his second, with Lieut. Speilman for the 
magnetic observations, and an adventurous young 
Englishman W. J. A. Grant — an Oxford undergraduate, 
in 1864 published an important work The Latest Discoveries in Maritime 
Affairs. In the following year he became a Commodore in the Royal 
Dutch Navy, and was appointed to superintend the building of the ironclad 
Prins Hendrik, which he afterwards commanded. In 1868 he retired from 
active service, after a distinguished naval career of 35 years. At my 
request Jansen examined the Dutch archives with a view to a study of 
ice navigation in the Spitsbergen and Barentsz seas, and the results of his 
researches were published in the R. G. S. Proceedings (Old Series, ix. 9, 163). 
In 1873 he was appointed a Councillor of State, and attained the rank of 
Rear Admiral. He died in September 1894, aged 77. 
1 Beynen published De Rets van de Pandora in den Zomer van 1876. 
2 The Committee consisted of the Baron van Wassenaer van Catwyck, 
Councillor of State Commodore Jansen, Franzen van de Putte, Professor 
Buys Ballot, Professor Veth, Jonkheer J. K. J. de Jonge (Treasurer). 
