Mr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson has recently published his book giving the
full story of the Wrangel Island expe- ditions. As a lecturer he has great following in Canada and the United States. Of Scandinavian descent, he himself was born in Manitoba. I remember my surprise the first time I lunched with him when I noticed that he ate two chops, fat and all, without either bread or vege- tables. . He was always ready and indeed anxious to defend his food theories. In the Arctic- he ate what the Eskimos ate ; he liked " nothing but fish " just as well as " nothing but meat." He had found, he said, that fresh meat was a certain cure for scurvy. This would have astonished the authors of the old limejuice regulations in" the British Mercantile Marine. And Mr Stefansson's ideas are rather startling in these days, too, when the ten- dency is for doctors to recommend less meat, and for people of their own accord to eat a smaller proportion of ; meat whe.tketv they have a scientific reason for doing it
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