DEN DANSKE ARKTISKE STATION. 
DISKO, GR0NLAND, 
July 3d 1919 
Professor M. L. Farnald, 
Gray Herbarium, Harvard. 
Dear Sit, 
In a letter from Mr. W. Elmer Ekblaw, geologist and 
botanist of the ^Crocker Land Expedition”, received to-day, 
I read: 
Because the American Museum had incurred such heavy 
expense in the expedition they were unable to make a place 
for me on their staff when I returned with sufficient salary 
to meet the high expenses of the war. My University tried 
tried to make a place for me, bit I fihally have had to go 
into industrial work in order to make a satisfactory living. 
Almost nothing of my work has yet beeh published though I 
have a great deal ready for the press. I do not know whether 
all my reports will ever be published or not. 
During his long stay in various places of North 
Greenland and during his long travels on Ellesmereland Mr. 
Ekblaw brought together large botanical collections, often 
under very trying conditions. I have not seen them, but Mr. 
Ekblaw was kind enough in letters to send abstracts of his 
records. I am thus rather well acquainted with the most impor_ 
tant of his findings, but I can of course make no use of matter 
confided® to me by a friend for any publication, before he 
has published it himself. When the expedition had to return 
via Danish Greenland, Mr. Ekblaw stayed hare some 6 weeks and 
we had many discussions about his results and the importance 
