.s the Expedition's principal field of work lay in Ellesmereland, 

 and as only in a few instances had I any opportunity of visiting other 

 parts of the Arctic American Archipelago, the contributions to the botani- 

 cal exploration of that region which I have been able to make have, for 

 the most part, reference to the Ellesmereland flora and vegetation. The 

 former is treated in my Fl. Ellesm., about the latter I hope soon to get 

 an opportunity of publishing a paper. From our three quarters, in the 

 south coast, however, some expeditions were made which brought home 

 some small materials of plants and observations from the south-west and 

 west also. For my own part, I visited in 1900 and 1902 a few points on 

 the coast of N. Devon; in 1901 and 1902 different points in the island 

 of N. Kent; and in 1902 the two small islets Castle Island and Devils 

 Isle off the coast of N. Devon. As these short visits were made in the 

 favorable season, I think I can give a tolerably adequate idea of the 

 botanical features of these places. Still worse is the case with the con- 

 tributions to the botany of some other places where I have not myself 

 been and which were only visited in the spring sledging expeditions by 

 other members of the expedition. Mr. SCHEI especially has thus contri- 

 buted to the botanical exploration; his collections and notes were made 

 on Graham Island, in Heiberg Land, and in N. Devon. 



The places where collections are made are shown in the sketch-map 

 on the next page where they are marked by their names or by numbers 

 corresponding with those in the text. 



