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Botany. — The botanical specimens collected and brought home by 

 Dr. Walker consisted of about 170 species of plants. They were placed 

 in the hands of Dr. J. D. Hooker, F.R.S., and the account drawn up 

 by him will be found in the 'Journal of Proceedings of the Linnean 

 Society,' Botany, vol. v. 



Geology. — The geological collection made during the voyage of the 

 ' Fox, ' together with the collections brought home by me in three 

 previous arctic Expeditions, were submitted to the Rev. Professor 

 Samuel Haughton, F.R.S., President of the Geological Society of 

 Dublin. From all these specimens, Dr. Haughton constructed a highly 

 interesting geological map of the Arctic Archipelago to accompany his 

 description, which will be found in Appendix IV. of the former editions 

 of this work. The specimens are in the Museum of the Royal Dublin 

 Society, and, together with those collected in Greenland by Sir Charles 

 L. Giesecke, form a more extensive collection of arctic rocks and fossils 

 than is to be found in any other museum in Europe. It includes am- 

 monites from lat. 765 N. ; specimens of pine trees found in great abun- 

 dance in lat. 74 N., also in 76 N., both recent and fossil ; coal plants ; 

 fossils from the carboniferous and silurian rocks of similar high latitudes ; 

 and miocene fossils from lat. 70 N. 



These latter fossils have been described by Professor Oswald Heer, of 

 Zurich, in his 'Flora Fossilis Arctica,' published in 1868. An abstract 

 taken from this work by R. H. Scott, M. A. (which includes all miocene 

 specimens brought home by Captain E. A. Inglefield, R.N. ; Lieutenant 

 P. Columb, R.N. ; Herr C. S. M. Olrik ; and by myself) will be found 

 in the 'Journal of the Royal Dublin Society ' for 1867, No. xxxvi. 



A collection more recently brought home by F. Whymper, Esq., 

 F.R.G.S., is noticed in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society' for 

 1869, No. no. 



The total number of these most interesting miocene plants, discovered 

 in Greenland, now amounts to 137 species. 



Meteorology. — It is not proposed to do more here than invite the 

 attention of the scientific enquirer to a very able and complete discussion 

 on the meteorological observations made on board the ' Fox,' as published 

 in the 13th volume of the 'Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge,' 

 April 1 86 1. 



A few brief remarks, such as may not be uninteresting to the general 

 reader, are all that we can find room for here. 



At Port Kennedy the highest temperature observed during the year 

 was 55 Fahr., the lowest -49*8° Fahr., consequently the extreme range 

 was 105 . The average maximum temperature occurred between noon 

 and I P.M., and the minimum between 2 and 3 A.M. 



The mean annual temperature is + 2° Fahr. By calculation, the 

 wannest day is 20th July, the coldest day is 19th January; and the days 

 of mean annual temperature are 23rd April and 22nd October. 



