[10] Garwood was fortunate enough to discover a fine specimen of this.
[11] The position as determined by the Swedes does not agree with the position determined by the Austrians.—Vide R. von Barry, Zwei Fahrten, &c. Vienna, 1894. 8vo.
[12] As to the whole project, see: N. Dunér and A. E. Nordenskiöld, Förberedande Undersökningar rörande utförbarheten af en Gradmätning på Spetsbergen. K. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl. Bd. vi. No. 8. In 1891 a Swedish committee was appointed to reconsider the question, and a further scheme was drawn up by Professor Rosen and published as a pamphlet in 1893. It has now been decided by the Swedish Academy of Sciences that the scheme shall be carried out, perhaps in conjunction with Russia, and expeditions to that end are to be sent to Spitsbergen in 1898 and following years.
[13] A translation of his interesting account of this expedition is inserted as an appendix to the present volume, by kind permission of Baron Nordenskiöld.
[14] The summit of the Aiguille Verte is 3700 feet above the Jardin.
[15] Herr Imfeld’s new map is the best on which to examine this theory.
[16] The Walliser Viescher Glacier was similarly employed.
[17] Alpine Journal, vol. xviii., p. 501.
[18] Vide Geographical Journal, 1898.
[19] Translated by the Rev. E. Shepherd from Herr G. Nordenskiöld’s paper, Redogörelse för den Svenska Expeditionen till Spetsbergen 1890, published in Bihang till K. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl. Bd. 17, Afd. 2, No. 3, pp 10-17.