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LE NORD
beginning of 1943 the Academy had 18 contributory members.
Since its foundation, it has been deprived by death of the fol-
lowing contributory members: Bertil Almgren, managing director
of the Stockholm Breweries, Dr. Gunnar Didrikson, Mr. Otto
Lesslie, Mr. Trygve Liljestrand, managing director of the P. A.
Norstedt & Sons’ Publishing House, Adolf Lindgren, M. P., J. L.
Saxon, publisher, Mr. Steno Stenberg, member of the Supreme
Court, and J. P. Áhlén, managing director.
Thanks to generous donations, especially from Mr. Edwin
Berger, Mr. Ernst Kolbert, and Mr. Albin Rapp, and to the
statutory subscriptions of the contributory members, the capital
of the Ácademy had increased by 1943 to over 250,000 kr.
VI.
In 1933 the Academy commenced its publishing activities
with vol. I of a series entitled “Skrifter utgivna av Gustav Adolfs
Akademien” (Publications of the Gustavus Adolphus Academy).
This was a thesis for the doctorate by Ivar Modéer, bearing the
title of “Smálándska skargárdsnamn” (Place-names of the Smá-
land Skerries). No. 2 of the series, published in 1934, was Inger
M. Boberg’s “Sagnet om den store Pans död” (The Legend of
the Death of the Great Pan). In 1935 appeared No. 3: Gunnar
Granberg’s “Skogsráet i yngre nordisk folktradition” (The Wood
Spirit in Late Scandinavian Popular Tradition), and in 1936
No. 4: Gertrud Areskog’s “östra Smálands folkmál” (The Peasant
Dialects of Eastern Smáland). The next publication, which did
not follow till 1939, was Bertil Ohlsson’s thesis for the doctorate:
“Blekingskusten mellan Mörrums- och Ronnebyán. Namnhistorisk
undersökning” (The Bleking Coast between the Rivers Mörrumá
and Ronnebyá. A Study in Place-Names). No. 6 was an account
of “the Peasant Dialects of Vástergötland,” by Johan Götlind,
planned on very large lines. Part I A and B of this work were
published in 1941, immediately after the death of the author.
Part I B is a dialect atlas of the district in question.
1941 also saw the publication of No. 7: “Jámtlands folkliga
kvinnodrákt” (Costumes of Peasant Women in Jámtland) by
Lennart Björkquist, and No. 8: Sven Rothman’s “östgötska folk-
minnen” (Folklore of Östergötland), published after the author’s
death by Sigurd Erixon and Erik Noreen. In 1942 appeared Erik
Brevner’s “Sydöstra Nárkes sjönamn” (Lake Names in Southern