The meetings of the native par - (20) liament. For the past four years the Danish government has been trying the experiment of partial local self-government and the new parliament consists of about six districts, which are subdivided into 37 communes. The experiment has not been a great success yet, but the natives are gradually learn- ing. They are too individualistic in their tempers to adhere to decide by general agreement, which seems for the moment to be contrary to their separate interests. The recently royal government has established here a scientific station here for the purpose of studying the ethnolo- gy, botany, geology and zoology of North Greenland. Dr. Morton P. Borsild, a scientist of inter