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is given a catalogue of fifty-one subjects of the ani- 

 mal kingdom ; some of these were there described and 

 figured for the first time. In the appendix to the fol- 

 lowing edition of Martens' Spitzbergen, the whole of 

 these are included. In the same appendix, twenty- 

 seven plants are recorded, one of which, a grass 

 [Agrostis algida) described there for the first time, was 

 subsequently described by Mr. Brown, as the type of 

 a new genus named Phippsia, in honour of the brave 

 commander of the expedition. The immortal Nelson, 

 then a mere youth, went on this expedition with his 

 uncle Captain Lutwidge, and we learn from Southey's 

 life of the naval hero, that on two occasions, at least, 

 the young midshipman contended both with the 

 Polar bear and the unwieldy walrus. A number of 

 the latter animals had attacked a boat ; they " were 

 with difficulty prevented from staving or oversetting 

 her, but a boat from the Carcass joining ours", says 

 Captain Phipps, " they dispersed".^ Southey informs 

 us that this boat was commanded by Horatio Nelson.^ 

 Another celebrated name in Arctic enterprise and 

 discovery acquired his first experience of Arctic 

 dangers in the Spitzbergen seas. Sir J. Franklin was 

 lieutenant and commander of the Trent, in the " voy- 

 age of discovery towards the North Pole performed 

 in His Majesty's ships Dorothea and Trent, under the 

 command of Captain David Buchan, R.N.", in 1818. 

 Captain (now Admiral) F. W. Beechey published the 

 narrative of this voyage in 1843. He has given a 



' Phipps, Voyage toAvards North Pole, p. 58. 

 2 Life of Nelson, p. 10. 



