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Volume 5 - July 1950

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College Geophysical Observatory, Alaska [Based on information supplied on 18 January 1947 by Ernest Wolff, Observer-in-Charge, College Geophysical Observatory.]

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Cambridge Geological Expedition to Spitsbergen, 1949

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POL volume 5 issue 39 Front matter

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Restoration of the Gjøa at San Francisco [Information supplied on 5 October 1947 by MrsNora A. Blichfeldt of San Francisco.]

Visits to the North Pole [Based on a note by D. Karelin, in Izvestiya Vsesoyuznogo Geograficheskogo Obshchestva (Annals of the All-Union Geographical Society), Vol. 78, No. 1, 1946 pp. 123–24.]

The Arctic Research Laboratory at Point Barrow, Alaska [Based on an account supplied by the Arctic Institute of North America, Montreal, 2 December 1947, and an article by DrLaurence Irving in Science, Vol. 107, 19 March 1948, pp. 284–85.]

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Oxford University Expedition to Nordaustlandet (North East Land), 1949

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“Arctic Dog Disease” and its Relationship to Rabies [Based on papers by P. J. G. Plummer in the Canadian Journal of Comparative Medicine, June 1947, pp. 154–60, and November 1947, pp. 330–34.]

Istituto Geografico Polare, Italy

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Royal Navy Experimental trials in arctic waters, 1949

Notes and Reviews

Territorial claims in the Antarctic [The following statement was issued by the Foreign Office on 18 January 1949.]

The Arctic Institute, Leningrad

Protection of Fur Seals in the North Pacific [See the Polar Record, No. 30, July 1945, pp. 264–71. The present supplementary note based on information released by the U.S. State Department on 6 January 1948.]

The Electrocution of Whales [Summarised from information provided by Dr Harry R. Lillie, surgeon to the Antarctic whaling fleet of Messrs Christian Salvesen and Co. in 1946–47, and from an unpublished compilation by Major C. W. Hume, Chairman of the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare.]

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Durham University Expedition to Iceland, 1949

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A Seventeenth-Century Voyage in Russian Arctic Waters [Summarised from a note by A. P. Laktionov in Izoestiya Vsesoyuznogo Geograficheskogo Obshchestva (News of the All-Union Geographical Society), Tom 77, No. 3, 1945, pp. 160–61.]

Gino Watkins Memorial Fund, 1949 [The administration of the income of this Fund has been transferred by the Trustees to the Scott Polar Research Institute, as announced in the Twenty-first Annual Report of the Committee of Management.]

Handbook for Soviet Polar Workers [Review of Spravochnaya Knizhka Polyarnika (The Polar Workers' Reference Book), by S. D. Lappo. Izdatel'stvo Glavsevmorputi (Publishing House of the Chief Administration of the Northern Sea Route), 1945, 423 pp., maps and ills. 25 Roubles.]

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