208 FOSSIL FLORA OF ALASKA— ENOWLTON. vol. xvii. 



(Ta,d?o(Zmw) from Tschugatsk (Cook Inlet) and Uualasclika. He also 

 mentions a fern from Unga wLicli he supposed to liave some resemblance 

 to Neuropteris acuUfoUa. It is probably tlie same as Osmunda Dorosch- 

 Mana of Goppert, as there is no Carboniferous known from Unga. 



A year later, Grrewingk again referred* to fossil plants in Alaska, 

 especially to the fossil trunks on Unga Island, but nothing beyond this 

 appears to have been noticed.! 



In 18G1 Grop pert reported! upon a small collection of fossil i)lants 

 obtained in August, 1859, by Lieut, v. Doroshin§ from the islands of 

 Kadiak (lat. 57^°), Uyaky (lat. 57^°), Atka^ (lat.52o), and Kootznahoo** 

 (lat. 57^°). The last of these, Kootznahoo, is in the vicinity of or is 

 a part of Admiralty Island, near Sitka. It afforded 2 species of 

 dicotyledons and a single conifer. Goppert enumerated 11 species, 

 from the combined localities, a number of which were new, but did not 

 give descriptions of them. 



In 1866 this same collection was again referred to by Gr)ppert,tt but, 

 unfortunately, the descriptions were not even then supplied, and con- 

 sequently most of the names of new species remain nomina nuda. 



In December, 1867, Prof. Oswald Heer, of Zurich, wrote a letter 

 relating to Alaskan jilants to Prof. A. E. jS"ordenskiold, in Stockholm, 

 which was published in the following year.|f It Avas an enumeration of 

 the plants brought back by Furuhjelm, and may be considered as an 

 outline of Heer's larger work which appeared in 1869. The plants are 

 arranged according to localities and most of the ncM^ species briefly 

 characterized. 



In many respects the most important paper on the fossil plants of 

 Alaska was Heer's Flora Fossllis AlasJcan<i,^^ which was published in 

 1869. It was based, as stated above, upon collections brought back by 

 Hjalmar Furuhjelm, of Helsingfors, Finland, who, as governor of the 



*Heidlb. Jahrb. Lit., 1851, p. 235. 



tFor the modern desiguatious and orthography of Alaskan localities I am greatly 

 indebted to Mr. Marcus Baker, of the U. S. Geological Survey. 



lUeber d. Tertiiirfl. d. Polargegeudeu : Abhandl. d. Schles. (iesell. f. Vaterland- 

 Cult., 1861, Heft. II, pp., 201-204. 



This i^aper is also published under the same title in Melanges Physique et Chimi- 

 ques tires du Bulletin de I'Acad. Imp. des sc. de St. Petersbourg. Tome iv, 1860-61, 

 St. Petersb., 1861, pp., 695-712. 



§Thi8 name is written Doroschkin by Goppert, but is an obvious German rendering 

 of the Russian Dorosliin. 



II This is probably from a bay of this name on the northwest coast of Kadiak, but 

 as there are several unnamed islands in this bay it is possible that it may be one of 

 them. 



51 This was written AtJia by Goppert, but Atka is the modern spelling. 



** Given as Hudsnoi by Goppert, which is one of the earlier of the many renderings 

 of the word Kootznahoo. 



ft Abhandl. d. Schles. Gesell. f. Vaterland-Cult. 1865-'66. Breslau, 1867, p. 50. 



tt Utdrag ur ett bvef af Professor Oswald Heer rovande fossila vexter friln Nord- 

 vestra Amerika, insamlade af BergmiLstareu Hj. Furuhjelm. Ofversigt af Vetens- 

 aps-Akad. Forhandl. 1868. No. 1, pp. 63-68. 



§^S Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps-Akad.Handl. Vol. viii. No. 1, 1869, pp. 1-41, PL i-x. 



