DISCOVERY REPORTS 



Dumont d'Urville visited Adelie Land in 1840, and landed on a rocky islet off the coast in the neigh- 

 bourhood of ' Pointe Geologie ' ; he collected rock specimens, but ' of vegetation nothing was seen ' 

 (according to Fricker, 1900). 



Fig. I. The Graham Land peninsula and adjacent islands, showing localities where collections 

 of lichens have been made. 



A lapse of over 50 years now intervened until in 1895 Borchgrevink landed from the steam whaler 

 'Antarctic' on Possession Island and Cape Adare, in South Victoria Land, and collected one species of 

 lichen (see Fricker (1900), where further references are given). 



The first comprehensive lichen collections were made by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897-9. 

 Fifty-five species of lichen were collected on the west coast of the Graham Land peninsula, and sub- 



