Le Nord : revue internationale des Pays de Nord - 01.06.1943, Síða 41

THE ROYAL GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS ACADEMY 35
who have been engaged in studies of cultural history during recent
times. The bibliographies have been prepared with exemplary
care and skill by Mr. John Tuneld, librarian at the University
Library of Lund. The obituaries are written by members of the
Academy.
One of the tasks of the Academy is to spread a knowledge of
the results of the study of folk culture among a wider public.
For this purpose the Academy publishes both a series of popular
“Descriptions of Peasant Life” and a series of booklets containing,
in a popular form, accounts of the subjects that come within its
sphere. The two first volumes of the Descriptions of Peasant Life
are J. L. Saxon’s “Frán sjálvhushállets lyckliga dagar” (From the
Happy Days of Village Economy), and Olof Hyltén-Cavallius’
journal of his travels in 1835, which has been edited by Sigurd
Erixon under the title “En student upptácker sitt land 1835” (A
University Student Discovers his own Country in 1835).
The first booklets in the other series will probably be published
in 1943. “Lin och Linne” (Flax and Linen) and “Bi och Honung”
(Bees and Honey), both by Albert Sandklef, are at present being
set up.
On Nov. 6, 1942, the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy,
whose Patron is now the King of Sweden, while its first honorary
members are H. R. H. the Crown Prince and H. R. H. the Duke
of Nárke, celebrated its tenth anniversary with a ceremony which
was at the same time simple and impressive. The presence of
H. R. H. Prince Eugen and several delegates from Academies
and learned societies gave a special character to the occasion.
When the Academy can look back with some pride and grati-
fication on the first ten years of its existence, it is above all due
to the untiring energy of its President, Secretary of State K. G.
Westman. His interest has extended to all branches of its work.
On several occasions he has himself taken the initiative to new
undertakings, and those started by other members he has watched
over as if they were his own. His connections and influence have
procured for the Academy very large donations and grants. On
festival occasions his witty speeches have been a feast in them-
selves, while his more serious addresses and lectures have been
a source of inspiration to fresh enterprises and renewed zeal. In
the annals of the Gustavus Adolphus Academy the name of Karl
Gustaf Westman is inscribed in illuminated letters.
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