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above all upon observations made durinej the Swedish .Antarctic Expe- 

 dition in 1901 — 1903. While doing this, a comparison with the Arctic 

 Sea, as we know it especially through KjKLi,>rAN's investigations, may 

 easily be made and several, perhaps most of the points of view, are 

 quite the same as those taken up by that wellknown author. ' 



In the survey of plants collected during the voyage of DUMOXT 

 D'UkVlIJ.K 1837 — 40, we find among the cryptogamics two true ant- 

 arctic algai, Scyiholhaiia yaqui)ifltii Mont, und DcsDiarcstia aiiccps 

 Mont." In the absence of further information, we suppose they must 

 have been found floating in the sea off the Louis-Philippe-peninsula. 

 According to HooKER, '^ ScythotJialia already had been gathered near 

 Decepti(jn Island by WEBSTER; Hooker again found it at 63'' S, as 

 well as a Dcsinarcsthr, both floating in the sea. The /^cs/z/a/rst/a-spe- 

 cies was referred by Harvev and himself to /). media (Ag.) Grev. 

 More important was Hooker's discovery of a littoral vegetation on Cock- 

 burn Island at 64° 14' S., consisting of I rida a radula, Adcnocystis Lcs- 

 soiiii and Prasiola crispa, the latter also growing high u]) on the island. 



As is well known, no scientific researches were made in the south 

 polar regions for a long time after Ross' expedition in 1839 — 43. From 

 the Gerlache-channel in the Graham-Land-region the Belgian expedition 

 brought back a collection of algae, of which Dr. E. DE WiLDEMAN has 

 given a preliminary report. New to the Antarctic Sea as to science 

 was a Curdiea, described under the name o{ C. RacovitZichy W.wW'i'w'^ 

 The expedition of Borchgrevinck 1898 — 1900 to Victoria Land also 

 made a small collection of algae, which has given rise to a couple of 

 ]jamphlets. ^ 



' F. R. K|);llman: üeber die Algenvegetation des Murmanschen Meeres und der 

 Westküste von Nowaja Semlja und Wajgatsch (Nova Acta R. Soc. Scient. Ups. Ser. 

 III. Vol. extra ord. Upsala nSyy). 



The Alg;i: oi the Arctic Sea. (K. Sv. Vet. Ak. Ilandl. Rd 20. N:o >. Stock- 

 holm uS(S3). 



''■ C. Mo.NiT.\c.\E: Plantes cellulaires in »Vovage au Pole Sud et dans lOcéanie 

 — .» Paris 1^42 — 45. 



" J. D. Hck)Ki:r: The hotan\- ol the .Vntarctic \'o\'age. 1. Mora .\ntarctica. Lon- 

 don 1847. 



* Expedition antarctique beige. — Note préliniinaire sur les Algues rapportées par 

 M. I". RACovrrz.v. (Bulletin de classe des sciences, .\cadeniie Ro\ale de Belgique. 

 Bruxelles 1900.) 



■"' N. Wu.Li-: Antarktische Algen. Nyt Magasin 1". Naturvidenskab. B. 40. il. 111. 

 Kristiania 1902. — K. S. R.akton: Alg;x; in »i^eport on the collections of natural 

 historv made — — during the vovage of the Southern (^ross^. London 1902. I^rit. .Mus. 



