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Paris, France, Xanthan E was kindly provided by Dr. I. W. Sutherland, Edinburgh, Scotland. This work was partly supported by grant V6617 from The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. 

Other later papers in this volume will comment upon the effects on soil and water in lakes and rivers, of this acid deposition, but it may be noted in passing that the Royal Society of London, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences have recently agreed to initiate a further long term collaborative programme of research into the effects of acidification of surface waters in Norway... 

Det Kongelig Norske Videnskabers Selskab (The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters) was founded in 1760 in Trondheim, and it is consequently the oldest learned society in Norway. Both Keyser and Thaulow were members. A separate society was, however, founded in the capital in 1857, entitled then Videnskabsselskabet in Christiania, which was later altered to Det Norske Videnskaps-akademi (the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters). The academy had a limited number of members from all scientific disciplines. In the beginning all professors at the university became members. However, due to lack of resources the academy has never played an important role in the country as similar academies in some other countries. 

Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, see Det Norske Videnskaps-akademi... 

We gratefully acknowledge support from Statoil under the VISTA program, administered by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (stipend to V.S.), and from the Norwegian Council for Science and the Humanities, NAVF. 

The ability to see order in chaos has won the mathematician Yakov G. Sinai the 2014 Abel Prize. The Prize, named after the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel, is awarded annually by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and is viewed by many as on par with the Nobel Prize. 

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