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A YEAR since, Dr. A. G. Nathorst, of Stockholm, read a paper before the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geology, entitled “Återblick på Polarforskningens närvarende Ställning samt Förslag till en Svensk Polarexpedition” (a review of the present position of Polar investigation, with a project for a Swedish Polar expedition), which has since been published in Ymer (Årgång 1896, Heft 4, pp. 267–286), the journal of the Society. At the time of reading the paper, there seemed but little probability of a near realisation of the projected scheme; but, during the present year, the King of Sweden and certain wealthy merchants of Stockholm and Gothenburg have generously come forward and provided the funds necessary for carrying it out, and Dr. Nathorst, who will act as the scientific leader of the expedition, is now engaged in preparations for a start next year (1898).
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A Proposed Swedish Expedition to the Arctic Regions. Nature 57, 163 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/057163a0
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