Biologisches Centralblatt 



unter Mitwirkung von 



Dr. M. Reess und Dr. E. Selenka 



Prof, der Botanik Prof. <ler Zoologie 



herausgegeben von 



Dr. J. Rosentlial 



Prof, der Physiologic in Erlangen. 



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XV. Band. i. Mar/ 1895. Kr. 5. 



Inhalt: Ohliu , Zoological observations during Peary Auxiliary Expedition 1894. 



llaacke , Die Bedeutung der Befruchtung uud die Folgen der Inzestzucht 

 (Schluss). Wasinanii, Kritisches Verzeichnis der mynnekophilen und 



termitophilcn Arthropoden. - Naffl'l, Erwiderung. 



Zoological observations during Peary Auxiliary 



Expedition 1894. 



P r e 1 i in i 11 a r y It e p o r t 



by Axel Ohlin, 



Zoologist of the expedition. 



Ill the following- short notices I want only to enumerate mammals 

 and birds observed by the members of the expedition and to give a 

 brief account of the working- with the dredge and the surface-net. 

 When the material of fishes and invertebrated animals collected by 

 these methods is worked up, I hope to be able to contribute with a 

 great many species to the knowledge of the fauna of Baffin Bay and 

 Smith Sound hitherto so little known. Before entering on the main 

 subject of this paper, I think it is well to give a short narrative of 

 the route of the expedition. 



Peary Auxiliary Expedition 1894, whose purpose was, chiefly, as 

 the name implies, to bring Lieutenant Peary and his party home to 

 the United States from their wiuterquarters at Bowdoiu Bay on the 

 northern coast of Inglefield Gulf in hit. 77 40' K. and long. 09 W. 

 consisted of seven members, the leader being Henry G. Bryant. We 

 started from St. Johns, New-Foundland, on board the steainwhaler 

 Falcon July 7 and arrived after a pleasant journey favoured by fine 

 weather at the Danish settlement Godliavn on Disco Island July 16. 

 After a stop here until the evening of the next day Falcon started 

 again and passed Sandersons Hope inside of which is situated Uper- 

 nivik, the most northern Danish colony in Greenland, at 8 p. in. July 19. 

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