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496 IV. EDUCATION AND MENTAL CULTURE IN SWEDEN.
Gaps in the knowledge possessed of the exact geography of the country are
still numerous and wide, largely owing to the fact that considerable areas are
still incompletely mapped; it will, consequently, take a long time before an entirely
satisfactory survey of Swedish geography can be given. The importance, however,
of geographical research has of låte been increasingly acknowledged; the University
of Lund established a chair in the subject in 1884, and that of Uppsala likewise
in 1901.
Andrée’8 start for the Pole, July 11, 1897.
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