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244 that have been carried on during recent years and is still being continued. Leigh Smith, Baron Nordenskjold, Nansen, Nathorst, the Prince of Monaco, the Duke of Orleans, and Amundsen may be numbered among others as pioneers of systematic scientific research in the Arctic Regions.

It would be of interest to take the chart of the Arctic Regions and to enumerate the different parts that yet remain to be explored—their name is legion. The Beaufort Sea, and the islands and channels to the north of the American continent, offer especially a splendid field for topographical, hydrographical, biological, geological and other research. Much valuable work is to be accomplished by a series of stations set up in strategic places for biological research, and the same may be said for magnetism and meteorology—especially if associated with investigation of the higher atmosphere. Denmark deserves great credit for recently setting up a biological station in Davis Strait in the manner here indicated. This has been accomplished by the generosity of Justice A. Hoek, and is backed up by an annual grant of £600 from the Danish Government towards its maintenance (Scottish Geographical Magazine, vol. xxi, No. 2, 1905; No. 5, 1905; vol. xxii, No. 4, 1906). Similar stations could with little difficulty be set up in Spitsbergen, Franz Josef