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THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. 
[chap. XX. 
was also at the Royal Palace that the series of festivities com¬ 
menced with a grand gala dinner, on the 25th of April, at 
which the King in a few magnanimous words praised the 
exploit of the Vega. Then fUe followed fete for several 
weeks. 
On the 26th the Swedish Y^acht Club gave an entertainment 
in the Grand Hotel under the presidency of Admiral Lager- 
crantz. Among those who were present may be mentioned 
his Majesty the King, the Crown Prince, Prince Oscar, Oscar 
Dickson, and Baron von Otter, Minister of Marine. On the 
evening of the same day there was a torchlight procession by 
pupils of the Technical High School. On the 27th there was a 
gala-play, to which all the Vega men were invited. On the 28th 
at a festive meeting of the Academy of the Sciences, a medal 
struck on account of the Vega expedition was distributed, 
the meeting being followed by a dinner given at the Hotel 
Phoenix by the Academy under the presidency of the Crown 
Prince. On the 30th April and 5th May banquets were 
given by the Publicist Club, and by the Idun Society, by 
the Naval Officers’ Society to the officers of the Vega, and 
by the Stockholm Workman’s Union to the crev/. On the 7th 
and 8th May there were festivities at Upsala, the principal 
attraction of which consisted of gay, lively, and ingenious 
carnival representations, in which we received jocular addresses 
and homage from fantastically dressed representatives of the 
peoples of different countries and periods. 
During this time there "were daily received deputations 
perhaps he of interest for numismatists to know that the medals distributed 
on account of the Vega expedition are to be found delineated in the eighth 
and ninth parts of the Swedish Family Journal for 1880. To those that 
are there delineated there have since been added a medal struck by the 
Finnish Society of Sciences, and the Anthropological-Geographical Society’s 
medal. 
