[167] 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).
[168] Lady Markham’s translation of the Life of L. R. Koolemans Beynen by Charles Boissevain was published by Sampson Low in 1885.
[169] Author of Ice-bound on Kolguev.
[170] No Man’s Land, Camb. Univ. Press, 1906.
[171] The Danish Committee for the geographical and geological investigation of Greenland was formed in 1876, and a valuable periodical, the Meddelelser on Grönland, containing the narratives of the explorers and the scientific results of the expeditions, has ever since been published at Copenhagen.
[172] “Botanical Exploration of the East Coast of Greenland between 65° 35′ and 74°30′ N.” by Chr. Kruuse (1904), Meddelelser on Grönland (Heft. 30, Afd. I), Kjöbenhavn, 1907.
[173] Thalbitzer has published papers on the poetry and music of the East Greenlanders, on their angekoks or priests, and on their dialect.
[174] So called after a patriotic brewer named Carlsberg, who left his brewery to a Trust, the profits to be expended on scientific work. As the brewery is a lucrative business, the help to exploration from this source has been very important.
[175] A Swedish expedition under Professor Nathorst in the Antarctic had reached Scoresby Sound in July 1899, and afterwards explored and mapped the previously unknown and complicated system of fjords forming the inner branches of Davy Sound, proving that they were connected with Franz Josef Fjord. In September 1899 Nathorst left the coast, and his ship the Antarctic was used in the following year for the Carlsbergfondet Expedition.
[176] His Royal Highness Philippe Duc D’Orléans made a voyage to that part of the coast on board the Belgica with M. Gerlache as his master in 1905. He stood northwards along the land ice, and succeeded in effecting a landing to the north of Cape Bismarck in 77° 36′ N. On July 31st he was in 78° 16′, the furthest north ever attained by a ship on this coast, and he could see as far as 78° 30′. In August he again landed in 77° 36′, the place receiving the name of Cape Philippe.