THE POLAK RECORD NUMBER 16: JULY 1938 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN FOR THE SCOTT, POLAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE CAMBRIDGE: AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1938 Price Two Shillings CONTENTS FRONTISPIECE Sir George Simpson FOREWORD page 69 ARCTIC REGIONS : Svalbard and Jan Mayen: Completed Expedition: German Spitsbergen Expedition, 1937 .... 71 Projected Expeditions: Cambridge Spitsbergen Expedition, 1938 .... 71 Norwegian Expedition to Svalbard, 1938 .... 72 Norwegian Fisheries Expedition to Svalbard, 1938 . 72 Imperial College of Science Expedition to Jan Mayen, 1938 72 ARTICLE : Coal-Mining in Svalbard. By Adolf Hoel. (Plate) . 74 European Arctic: Completed Expedition: Ethnological Research in Lapland, 1937-38 ... 86 Russian Arctic Expeditions: The Missing Soviet Fliers 87 Completed Expedition: The Soviet Polar Station 87 Expeditions in the Field: Relief of the Soviet Ice-breakers 90 Projected Expeditions : Soviet Union Expeditions, 1938 91 Greenland: Completed Expedition: Dr Lauge Koch's Air Expedition to Peary Land, 1938 . 92 (Continued on pages 3 and 4 of wrapper) Greenland (continued): Expeditions in the Field: Dr Lauge Koch's Expedition to East Greenland, 1936-38 . 93 American Meteorological Expedition, 1937-38 ... 93 Projected Expeditions: Danish North-east Greenland Expedition, 1938-39 . 94 Norwegian-French Arctic Expedition, 1938 ... 95 Norwegian Expeditions to East Greenland, 1938 . 95 Miss Louise A. Boyd's Arctic Expedition, 1938 . 95 Expedition of the Akademischer Alpenclub Zurich to East Greenland, 1938 96 Danish Ornithological Investigations in West Greenland, 1938 96 Oxford University Greenland Expedition, 1938 . 96 Cambridge West Greenland Expedition, 1938 ... 97 Other Danish Work in West Greenland, 1938 ... 98 German Expedition to West Greenland, 1938 ... 98 ARTICLE: The Newfoundland Seal-Fishery and its Possible Influence on the Greenlanders. By John Colman... 99 Iceland: Completed Expeditions: Tryggvi Magnusson's Expedition to Myrdalsjokull, 1938 . 104 Icelandic Expedition to Vatnajokull, 1938 . 104 Arctic Canada and Labrador: Expeditions in the Field: British Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1936-40 . 106 British Arctic Expedition, 1937-38 106 Projected Expeditions: British Expedition to Northern Baffin Island, 1938-40 . 107 Captain Bartlett's Arctic Cruise, 1938 .... 108 Commander D. B. MacMillan's Arctic Cruise, 1938 . 108 ARTICLE: Snow-house Building. By Graham Rowley . 109 Alaska: Projected Eocpeditions: The Harvard University-National Geographic Society Alaskan Expedition, 1938 117 Dr Hrdlicka's Anthropological Investigations in the Aleutian Islands, 1938 118 ANTARCTIC REGIONS : The Work of R.R.S. Discovery II and R.R.S. William Scoresby. By Dr N. A. Mackintosh 119 Projected Expedition: Ellsworth Antarctic Expedition, 1938-39 . .120 ANTARCTIC WHALING 121 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EXPLORATION 123 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF POLAR EXPLORATION, 1940 . 123 THE SCIENTIFIC WORK OF THE INTERNATIONAL ICE PATROL BOARD. By The Rev. W. L. S. Fleming 124 NORWEGIAN ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS, 1927-36 .... 129 " HINTS TO TRAVELLERS ", VOLUME II 131 RECENT POLAR BOOKS 134 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT OF THE SCOTT POLAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE 135 but GEOKGI.