The photographing in natural colors of the relics found together with the body of Salomon August Andree, Swedish balloon explorer whose death with two companions on White Island, Spitzenbergen, in 1897 in an attempt to fly across the North Pole has just been revealed, has been entrusted to the Jewish professor of the University of Vienna, M. Stern. Professor Stern is on his way to Tromsoe, Norway, to meet the ship carrying the bodies of the explorers.
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