proceedinCtS of the national museum. 209 



Rnssian-Amerioan possessions, lesided for nearly ten years in Alaska. 

 He made, it appears, a very large collection, most of which was lost on 

 the Mexican coast by the stranding of the ship in which they were 

 being sent home. The specimens which finally reached Europe were 

 obtained from the island of Kuiu,* near Sitka, and from the east side 

 of Cook Inlet, a part coming from English Bay, now better known as 

 Port Graham (hit. 59° 21'; long. 1510 53'), and the rest from near a 

 small stream known as the Neniltschik (lat. r>0o 9'). The latter place 

 is about 50 miles north of Port Graham. This paper enumerates 56 

 species, of which number 19 were then new to science. 



In 1871 Eichwald f made a re-examination of the plants collected by 

 Lieut. V. Doroshin that had first been studied, as above pointed out, by 

 Goppert in 1861. Goppert, it will be remembered, did not give figures 

 or descriptions of these plants in his paper. These were supplied by 

 Eichwald, who also made use of Heer's Flora Fossilis Alaskana in 

 working over the collection. He enumerated 9 species, 3 of which were 

 newly named, although they had been recognized by Gojipert or Heer. 

 Eichwald also gave a list of the species reported from all i>arts of 

 Alaska by Heer. 



In 1882, Lesquerc^ux published a i)aper entitled ''Oontributions to 

 the Miocene Flora of Alaska," | whic^h was based upon material biought 

 back by Dr. William H. Dall, then of the LT. S. Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey. The plants, which according- to Lesquereux, were finely pre- 

 served, came from Coal Harbor, Uuga Island; Kachemak Bay, § Cook 

 Inlet, and Chignik Bay, Alaskan Peninsula (Lat. oGh^). It enumer- 

 ated 21 species of which 7 were regarded as new to science. This 

 paper was republished but without the illustrations, in Lescpiereux's 

 "Cretaceous and Tertiary Floras," 1883, pp. 257-263. 



In 1882, Dr. J. S. Newberry also described new species of fossil 

 plants from Alaska in his paper entitled "Brief Descriptions of Fossil 

 Plants, Chiefly Tertiary, from Western North America.'' || They Averc 

 collected by Cax)t. Howard, U. S. Navy, in Cook Inlet, and Admiralty 

 Inlet, 1] and by the U. S. S. Suginaw^ in the Kootznahoo Archipelago 

 (Lat. 570 35', long. 134° 19'), the last on February J8, 1869. The figures 

 illustrating these plants were prepared and the plates have been 

 engraved and printed since 1871, but have not yet been formally issued. 

 They were designed to form the illustrations of a monograph of the 

 Hayden Geological Survey for which the text was never supplied. 

 A posthumous work, which will embrace them, is being prepared by 



* Written Kuju, by Heer. 



t Geoguo.stisch-PaliPOiitologisclu' lieiuerkiiugen (Tljer (li»^ Halbiusel Manpisclilak 

 U. die Aleiitisoben Inselu. St. Petersb., 1871, i>p. 107-ll»i, PI. iv. 



tProc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. v, 1882 (1883), pp. 443-449, PI. vi-x. 



^ Often called Chngacbik Bay and so written by Lesqnorenx. 



II Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mns., vol. v, 1882 (1883). pp. ."i02-514. 



^ This is presumably an error lor Admiralty Island, there being no inlet of this 

 name in Alaska. 



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