The Danish Ingolf-Expedition, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Danish Ingolf-Expedition, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by Danish Ingolf-Expedition and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Danish Ingolf-Expedition, Vol. 1 According to the Financial Law of 1894 - 95, a sum of 30,000 Kroner was voted on the budget of the Ministry of Public Instruction for preliminary arrangements for a Danish scientific deep-sea expedition by the cruiser Ingolf for exploration of the Arctic seas around Iceland and Greenland, zoological collections being the principal object of the expedition. The expedition was to be made in two voyages of 4 months each, respectively in 1895 and 1896. On the 12th of April 1894, I received a communication from the Ministry of Public Instruction to undertake the necessary arrangements for the expedition together with professor Lutken, and on the 16th of the same month, I received another communication from the Ministry of Naval Affairs to inform me that I was appointed captain of the cruiser Ingolf and Leader of the expedition. The Ministry of Naval Affairs placed the cruiser Ingolf at disposal with officers and crew for the above purpose. Further on negotiations were entered into with the Naval Dockyard, and from these resulted that the principal alterations and fittings that had to be performed were as follows: Building of a deck-house aft with 3 cabins, a large one for the zoologists of the expedition, and two smaller ones, one of which for the physicist and the other for the botanist; fitting of a steam-winch with appertaining reel for the steel-wirerope; a reel for the thermometer-line; a trawl-boom with appurtenances, trawl and dredges as well as weights for soundings. The Ministry of Naval Affairs was not in favour of any alterations being made in the accommodation and fittings below deck, nor were any alterations in this respect necessary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."