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 fiOTANiCAI, 



D URING the summer of 1921 Professor Seward and Mr. R. E. Holttum 

 of Cambridge, England, visited Greenland and, with the Danish 

 Arctic Station as headquarters made boat excursions to the famoiis 

 fossiliferous strata of the Cretaceous and Tertiary areas of the Nordost- 

 bugt and the Waygat coasts. To facilitate the work of Prof. Seward 

 I was commissioned by the Director of the Arctic Station to undertake 

 the arrangements incidental to the Expedition. 



Prof. Seward (26) published an account of his visit in a book 

 entitled "A summer in Greenland" and his Research Assistant Mr. R. E. 

 HoLTTUM (6) gave a brief description of plant life in Greenland in which 

 he also incorporated his own observations. In both publications a number 

 of excellent photographs illustrate different aspects of the vegetation. 



I had thus the privilege in the company of the English Botanists 

 to visit a number of piaces hitherto only partially explored. But as the 

 area thoroughly investigated is always small compared with the vast 

 extent of the country every traveller who leaves the ordinary routes 

 may expect to make new and interesting observations and to add to 

 the records on the distribution of piants given by previous collectors, 

 (see Bibliography). 



Had our route been selected with special reference to the most 

 promising localities of living piants my collections would undoubtedly 

 have been more copious and more interesting, but our principal aim 

 was the collection of fossils. The richest localities for fossil piants do 

 not always coincide with the most favourable conditions for the plant- 

 life of to-day. 



I nevertheless succeded in obtaining abt. 1000 specimens of her- 

 barium piants and a number of observations on the flora of the districts 

 visited, besides several unexpected records of range- extensions. I owe 

 this in part to the courtesy of Prof. Seward who always gave every 

 consideration to my work, and I offer him my best thanks. 



As the inner and northern parts of the Nordost Bugt are out of 

 the way of the ordinary travel-routes, I append a brief account of my 

 observations. 



