The Berlin Geographical Society's Greenland-Expedition

Abstract

IN 1891 Dr. Drygalski and Herr Baschin visited Greenland under the auspices of the Geographical Society of Berlin, and the results they obtained were so interesting and suggestive that the Society was encouraged to despatch another expedition in the following year. On this second and longer visit Dr. Drygalski was accompanied by Dr. E. Vanhöffen as zoologist, and Dr. Hermann Stade as meteorologist. They left Copenhagen on May 1, 1892, and returned on October 14, 1893, The principal object of the expedition being the study of the ice of Greenland, it was desirable that selection should be made of some region in which both the “inland ice” and the independent glaciers of the west coast mountain-tracts could be conveniently examined.