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On the Deck of the “Stockholm” 
A Distinguished Group on the 
“Stockholm’' > 
Among the passengers that arrived from 
Sweden on the Stockholm, March 6, was Chief 
Engineer Axel Wahlberg, head of the Society 
of Ironmasters ( Jernkontoret ), a unique insti- 
f tution in Sweden dating back from 1717, when 
it was founded by Roval charter. Jernkon- 
toret is now a private organization to which 
most of the great iron works of the country 
belong, having total assets of about 7,000,000 
kronor. Its purpose is to give financial sup¬ 
port and encouragement to the iron industry. 
Engineer Wahlberg is here in order to study 
American conditions in his field. His son, 
Gosta Wahlberg, is a student of banking at 
Brown Brothers in New York. 
The group which the photographer has 
snapped on the deck of the Stockholm is from 
left to right: Director Lundbeck of the 
Swedish-American Line; Captain Anderberg 
of the Stockholm; the Swedish-American film 
star, Miss Anna Q. Nilsson, also a passenger 
on the boat; Chief Engineer Wahlberg; Con¬ 
sul-General Lamm, and Mr. Gosta Wahlberg. 
Race Hygiene in Sweden 
The Swedish Nation in Word and Picture 
is the somewhat unscientific title of a large 
scholarly work published in English by the 
Swedish Society for Race Hygiene. From it 
we learn that a Race-biological Institute has 
been established by almost unanimous resolu¬ 
tion of the Riksdag in 1921, and that this is 
the first State institution of its kind in the 
world. The Institute, which has temporary 
quarters at the University of Uppsala, is 
headed by Professor Herman Lundborg, a 
pioneer in his field in Sweden. The volume 
before us contains a number of contributions 
by specialists, the first being an essay on the 
origin of the Swedish nation by Professor 
Montelius. It is believed that the Swedes 
were the first inhabitants of the land they now 
occupy, and their remarkable homogeneity 
makes them interesting objects of study. 
Numerous illustrations enable us to trace the 
development of the Nordic type in its purity 
as also with admixtures of foreign blood— 
chieflv Finnish, Jewish, or Walloon. 
