The American-Scandinavian Foundation 
For better intellectual relations between the American and Scandinavian peoples, by means 
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Professor Collin’s Lectures 
As a part of its general educational pro¬ 
gramme, the Foundation plans from time to 
time to invite professors in Scandinavian uni¬ 
versities to deliver lectures before academic 
and general audiences in America. A few such 
lectures were arranged for the Swedish geolo¬ 
gist, Baron De Geer, in 1920; but the first 
formal series of these lectures will be those 
of Professor Christian Collin who has ac¬ 
cepted the Foundations invitation to visit 
American colleges during the months of April 
and May. Dr. Collin, who occupies the chair 
of European Literature at the University of 
Christiania, is the author of numerous books 
on Norwegian and English literature, among 
them a definitive biography of Bjornson. In 
America he will lecture on “Bjornson and 
Ibsen, and the Renaissance of Norwegian 
Literature” and on such philosophic subjects 
as “The Function of Genius.” Among the 
American colleges which have invited him to 
lecture are Amherst, Cornell, Columbia, Min¬ 
nesota, Pennsylvania, and Yale. 
Dr. Porsild from Greenland 
Dr. Morten P. Porsild, founder and direc¬ 
tor of the Danish Arctic Station at Disko, 
Greenland, notified the Foundation that he 
expected to come to America in February, to 
form scientific alliances with American natur¬ 
alists and ethnologists. A series of lectures 
based on his studies of Greenland’s plant 
life and his own excavations at an old Eskimo 
settlement in Greenland, were consequently 
arranged by the Foundation. He was in¬ 
vited to lecture before the American Geo¬ 
graphical Society, the American Museum of 
Natural History, at the Brooklyn Botanic 
Gardens, and other institutions. As a mem¬ 
ber of the government committee on reform 
in Greenland, Dr. Porsild is familiar with 
Greenland’s social and political problems. 
The New York Chapter 
At the annual meeting of the New York 
Chapter in the Oak Room of the Hotel Mar¬ 
tinique on January 16, the following were 
elected officers for 1922: Dr. Henry God¬ 
dard Leach, President; Mr. Albert Van Sand, 
Secretary; Baroness Alma Dahlerup, Chair¬ 
man of the Social Committee; Mrs. Gudrun 
Loehen Drewsen, Vice-Chairman, and Mr. 
Harald Rambusch, Treasurer. Reports of 
the Social and Students’ Welfare Committee 
were read, and a special committee on Ways 
and Means, Mr. Hans Poulsen, Chairman, 
was appointed to consider revisions of the 
Constitution and the question of dues. 
The Sandzen Exhibition 
Members of the New York Chapter and 
several hundred guests were invited to the 
private view of the Birger Sandzen Exhibi¬ 
tion at the Babcock Galleries on the after¬ 
noon of January 30. From four o’clock until 
six, the constant stream of visitors filled the 
broad stairway that leads to the exhibition 
rooms where a special committee of ladies of 
the Chapter were in charge, serving tea in 
the rear gallery. Representatives of the press 
and art critics had seen the pictures on the 
morning of the first day of the exhibition, 
which was open to the public for two weeks 
—until February 11. A sixteen page cata¬ 
logue had been prepared by Dr. Christian 
Brinton, with a foreword and numerous illus" 
trations of lithographs and wood-cuts, as well 
as paintings in oil and water-color. Copies 
can be obtained at the Foundation office. 
