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XVIIL-BOTANICAL RESULTS OF SWEDISH 



SOUTH AMERICAN AND ANTARCTIC 



EXPEDITIONS. 



t 



W. B. Tuhrill. 



The appearance of Dr. Skottsberg'' s final publication resulting 

 from the Swedish Expedition to Patagonia and Fuegia, 1907- 

 1909. gives a good opportunity for summarizing - the recent 

 botanical work of Swedish botanists in the southern part of the 

 American continent and its neighbouring islands, in the Antarctic, 

 and in • certain of the subantarctic islands. Their work 

 is of special interest to British botanists for two reasons. In the 

 first place the Falkland* and South Georgia are included in the 

 British Empire, and secondly, some of the areas visited by the 

 Swedish expeditions were made classical by the researches of 

 Darwin, Hooker, and others of our countrymen, who were the 

 first to suggest solutions to many of the problems again attacked 

 in the series of books and papers here reviewed. These chiefly 

 record the results obtained during two expeditions to the Southern 

 Hemisphere. The one, known as the "Swedish South Polar (or 

 Antarctic) Expedition," was under the leadership of Norden- 

 skjold, and took place between the years 1901 and 1903; the 

 second, with the title " Swedish Expedition to Patagonia and 



Fuegia," was arranged by Dr. Skottsberg, and lasted from 

 1907 to 1909. 



The following bibliographical list gives the publications dealing 

 with the botany of these two expeditions : 



(1) Skottsberg, " The Geographical Distribution of Vegetation 

 in South Georgia," Geogr. Journ. Nov. 1902, p. 498. 



(2) Skottsberg, " On the Zonal Distribution of South Atlantic 

 and Antarctic Vegetation," Georgr. Journ. Dec. 1904, p. 655. 



(3) Stephani, " Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedis- 

 chen Sudpolar-Expedition 1901-1903." Band IV. Lief. 1 (1905). 

 "Hepaticae." . 



(4) Skottsberg, Ibid. Lief. 2 (1905). " Feuerlandische 

 Bliiten." 



(5) Skottsberg, Ibid. Lief. 3 (1905). "Die Gefasspflanzen 

 Siidgeorgiens." 



(6) Skottsberg, Ibid. Lief. 4 (1906). "Zm Flora des Feuer- 

 landes." 



(7) Foslie, Ibid. Lief. 5 (1907). "Antarctic and Sub- 

 antarctic Corallinaceae. 5 " 



(8) Skottsberg, Ibid. Lief. 6 (1907). " Zur Kenntnis der 

 subantarktischen und antarktischen Meeresalgen." 



(9) Ekelof, Ibid. Lief. 7 (1908). '• Bakteriologische 

 Studien." 



(10) Cardot, Ibid. Lief. 8 (1908). "La Sore Bryologique 



des Terres Magellaniques, de la Geonjie du Sud et de 1'Antarc- 

 tide." 



(11) Skottsberg, Ibid. Lief. '9 (1909). " Pflanzenphysiog- 

 nomische Beobachtungen aus dera Feuerlande." 



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