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part worked up. The work at the provinces of Smaland, Narke,
Dalsland, Vármland, Skáne, and Bohuslán has been started.
Alongside of SVERIGES KYRKOR certain works on a large
scale have been done, or are being done, which constitute im-
portant supplements to that mentioned above.
First the so called Quick-lnventory should be mentioned.
SVERIGES KYRKOR, as said above, is progressing rather
slowly, not only, as has been stated, because of the difficult
question of economy, but also because of the demand for thorough
and manysided investigations. Hence it was found expedient, in
order to arouse the congregations to an understanding of their
historical treasures, and in order to give the preservation of an-
tiquities sufficient material for its control, to undertake a rapid
listing of all effects in the churches independently of the progress
of SVERIGES KYRKOR. The liste were quite summary, only
in so far as was possible when going through the material rapidly
an art-historical determination was added. The lists were made by
young students of art history in the presence of the vicar of the
parish in question. The lists were copied fair in several copies and
filed in the church, the chapter, the Antikvarisk-Topografiska
Arkivet of the Royal Academy of Letters History and Antiquities
in Stockholm) where they are accessible bound in folio volumes.
The work was carried out in 1918—1932.'* A minor part for
financial reasons had to be left undone, but it is now in progress
and secured. All was planned and carried out in collaboration
with SVERIGES KYRKOR. The leader of the work was Dr.
Sigurd Wallin and a committee with H. R. H. Prince Eugen as
chairman and amongst others all the bishops of the country as
members. The costs were chiefly defrayed through a collection
of private contributions initiated by the architect Ferdinand Bo-
berg and his wife the painter Anna Boberg.
All there sorts of research, exhibitions and publications gradu-
ally aroused or increased the historical curiosity of the congre-
gations without it being possible everywhere to satisfy it by a
volume of SVERIGES KYRKOR within a not too distant
future. Consequently various enterprising publishers printed a
large number of cheap descriptions of churches, generally of an
entirely amateurish character, but also occasionally good works,
3 See Rune Norberg, Kyrkoinventeringen 1918—1932. En historik. Forn-
vánnen 1941, pp. 1—21.