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AT the end of this month Mr. G. Seligman, author of "Snow Structure and Ski Fields", will take a party of scientific workers to the Jungfraujoch Research Institute in Switzerland to undertake scientific research work on glaciers. This will be the first British expedition ever to spend its whole time studying glaciological problems, and it will form a continuation of Mr. Seligman's previous researches on the nature of snow. The party will spend five months at the Institute, at a height of more than 11,000 feet, and will consist of: Mr. T. P. Hughes, of the Physical—Chemical Laboratory, Cambridge- physicist ; Mr. M. F. Perutz, of the Crystallographic Laboratory, Cambridge—crystallographer; Mr. A. E. Benfield, of the Department of Geodesy and Geophysics, Cambridge, and Mr. E. A. Ferguson, of the Department of Geography, Cambridge—assistants. The chief problem to be investigated will be the transition of firn into glacier ice, but other problems, particularly those which may have some bearing on the main question, will be investigated, notably the movement of glaciers, the formation of ice-bands and the connexion, if any, between those in the neve regions and those near the snout of the glacier. In addition, Mr. Hughes will carry out certain experiments on the friction of solid bodies on ice, in connexion with his work at the Physical-Chemical Laboratory, Cambridge. Mr. Seligman has been granted a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for the purpose of this research, and the expedition is also supported by the Royal Geographical Society, the Ski Club of Great Britain and the Alpine Ski Club.
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Jungfraujoch Research Party. Nature 141, 637 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141637b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141637b0