Excerpt from A Summer in Greenland

A GOOD many years ago British Arctic Explorers, on their way to the Polar Sea, and other travellers first brought to Europe collections of fossil plants from Disko Island and from various localities on the adjacent coasts of Greenland. In more recent years large collections, made by Danish and Swedish Geologists, have been acquired by the museums of Copenhagen and Stockholm.

To students of the vegetation of the past fossil plants from Greenland rocks are of exceptional interest, mainly because of the evidence they afford of climatic conditions very different from those within the Arctic Circle at the present day. An examination of the Copenhagen and Stockholm collections inspired me with a desire to visit Greenland in order to obtain as representative a set of fossils as possible for the British Museum and for Cambridge. Having learnt from my friend Professor Ostenfeld (of Copenhagen) that English visitors would be welcome at the Danish Arctic Station on Disko Island, I applied through the British Foreign Office for the necessary permission to visit the country, and, with the help of a grant from the Royal Society, supplemented by a grant from the Cambridge University Worts Travelling Fund, I was at length able to gratify my wish.

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