Some Results from the Swedish "Albatross" Cruise)

SIX YEARS AGO, late in November, 1947, the Swedish research ship, the 1,450-ton motor schooner "Albatross," on its round-the-world cruise entered the harbor of Honolulu, where we had a magnificent reception. Two years later, in December, 1949, I was invited over here from the Mainland to give a preliminary survey ,of the main results of the cruise obtained through work in the Oceanographic Institute in Goteborg and in collaborating institutes in Sweden and abroad to that time. Now, 4 years later, I am happy to say that fair progress has been made in this work, so that already some volumes of our "Reports from the Swedish Deep-Sea Expedition" have been printed, and more are coming. We have also had the satisfaction of seeing other deep-sea cruises, sent out from Denmark, from Great Britain, and from the United States, working on the lines the "Albatross" followed, partly with aid of the technique developed in Sweden, and also that their results have on several important points confirmed our own. I shall now give a summary of the results gained since I was here last, particularly those in submarine geology.