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coast of Washington Territory, at Bellingham Bay, &c., 

 form a most interesting addition to the representatives 

 which we had before received of the extinct floras of the 

 cretaceous and tertiary strata of Northwest America. 



Previous to the arrival of this collection, a considerable 

 number of fossil plants had been obtained from this re- 

 gion by Prof. J. D. Dana, Geologist to the United States 

 Exploring Expedition, under the command of Captain 

 Charles Wilkes ; and by Dr. John Evans, United States 

 Geologist of the Territory of Oregon. 



Of the first of these collections, a brief notice was given 



* Publislied by permission of Archibald Campbell, Esq., United States Commis- 

 sioner, Northwest Boundary Commission. 



FEBRUARY, 1863. 



