The plan was not to risk a flight in any case through fog and thick snow, where the aeroplanes would certainly lose sight of each other, but to turn back if the weather should begin to look too threatening. It would then be the meteorologists’ problem to find another occasion when it would be again worth while to try and see whether in a renewed attempt the way to the Pole would be clear. For several years the exchange of meteorological weather reports had been broadcast by wireless so that everybody who had a receiving apparatus could make free use of the same. “Fram’s” receiving apparatus was of the latest type and worked very well, even receiving meteorological messages from countries very far distant. Mr. Devoid attended to the receiving of nearly all the weather reports--a job he was well acquainted with, through his position as assistant at the Geophysical Institute at Tromsö. It can safely be said that we could not have got a better man for the handling of all the radio weather news which came to hand. He was untiring in trying to pick up and read communications which were very weak, coming from far distant stations, and it was, thanks to him, that the weather forecasting station at King’s Bay was able to work with nearly the same full range of meteorological observations as any southern weather forecasting station. The meteorological despatches are broadcast by international agreement and, with one single apparatus, one can receive accounts of observations from the whole of Europe, North America and North Asia. That has been made possible by the various countries all having come to an agreement, in which they have arranged to send despatches following each other closely according to a prearranged time-table. On the “Fram” we regularly received the following despatches: _Observations from eight o’clock in the morning_ A.M. 4:30 Stavanger (repetition of Annapolis U.S.A.) 7:00 London (English observations at 2 A.M.) 8:12 Tromsö (+ polar station Jan Mayen, Björnöya) 8:20 Königswusterhausen (Germany) 8:25 Haapsalu (Estland) 8:35 Lyngby (Denmark) 8:40 Karlsborg (Sweden) 8:50 Oslo (Norway) 9:00 London (England and Faroe Islands) 9:15 Grudziadz (Poland) 9:20 Paris (France, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland) 9:30 Sandhamn (Finland) 9:35 Budapest (Hungary) 9:40 London (ships’ observations) 9:50 London (collected messages) 10:00 Tromsö (collected messages) 10:15 Dietskoje Selo (Russia) 10:30 Vardo (North Russia) 10:40 Paris (collected messages) 11:45 Oslo (Norwegian observations 11 o’clock) 11:50 London (English observations 11 o’clock) 12:00 Dietskoje Selo (Russia and Siberia) _Observations from two o’clock in the afternoon_