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warmth, in an icy bed, till the return of the great light has restored 
the brightness of day, and again enabled them to resume, for a few 
weeks, the busy operations of organized beings. 
The remaining portion of our voyage may be told in a few words. 
The month of September was drawing to its close; the weather, 
which up to this time had been moderate, became boisterous ; boats 
could seldom attempt to land ; so that, after my return from the Buck- 
land river, few opportunities occurred to get on shore. The Plover 
had selected the east side of Chore’s Peninsula for a winter-quarter ; 
and. as the rapidly declining temperature and the frequent snow-storms 
plainly told the fast approach of winter, the Herald and Nancy Dawson 
left Kotzebue Sound on the 29th of September, 1849. At our 
departure, the boats from the Mackenzie river had not yet returned, and 
no information whatever had been obtained respecting the fate of Sir 
John Franklin's expedition, or that of Sir John Richardson. On 
the 11th of October we passed through the chain of the Aleutian 
Islands, whose conical shapes betray their voleanie origin. Sighted 
the Isle of Guadeloupe on the 3rd of November, and anchored on the 
13th of the same month in the port of Mazatlan, Mexico. 
BERTHOLD SEEMANN. 
The following is the addition made to the herbarium. The species 
collected at Oahu are n. 1693-1734; at Petropaulowski, n. 1735— 
1747; on the north-west coast of America, n. 1747-1915 ; and at 
. Herald Island, n. 1915-1922, 
.. Since the 19th of March, 1849, I have been on the collecting 
ground—at Oahu five days, at Petropaulowski one, Chamisso Island 
two, Wainwright Inlet two, Herald Island one, Cape Lisburne one, 
Kotzebue Sound-six, and Buckland River five. What I have called a 
day is in most cases only a limited portion of such, half an hour, 
one hour, &c. 
—. Total number of days spent collecting, from the 19th of March to 
the 13th of November, 1849 : 21. 
. Total number of days spent at sea, from the 19th of March to the 
13th of November, 1849 : 219. B. S. 
