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expedition under the commando of PENNY, visited, on August 10, 1850. 

 Bushnan Island where Ross had also landed. SUTHERLAND, who was 

 a trained botanist, has given a list of the plants collected during the 

 expedition, with localities mentioned for every species, most of which are, 

 however, only collected to the west. 



SUTHERLAND again visited N. W. Greenland in 1852 as surgeon of 

 the search-expedition under INGLEFIELD, where he probably took a large 

 part in bringing together the collection of plants named in the "Notes of 

 Flowering Plants and Algae" which forms one of the Appendices to INGLE- 

 FIELD'S Summer Search. Some plants were, however, collected by the com- 

 mander and other members of the expedition. Collections were made 

 at Wolstenholme Sound and Whale Sound. Detailed information about 

 the points in the first-mentioned inlet, where plants were collected, is 

 wanting; but from some details and a small list of plants contained in 

 the journal, it may be concluded where this collection was made (1. c., 

 p. 59 62) : "After running twenty-one miles from Cape Parry along the 

 shore, huts were observed in a bight that proved to be a small deep water 

 bay". The place so designed can only be Burdin Bay, and, as no other 

 landing in Inglefield Gulf is mentioned, I think the Whale Sound plants 

 were all collected at Burdin Bay. 



Dr. E. K. KANE, who spent two years (1853 55) in N. W. Green- 

 land, has made a good many notes about the flora and vegetation of 

 the different points visited during the expedition, and a fairly extensive 

 collection was brought home too, which had been gathered by himself 

 and others, for instance the Danish interpreter PETERSEN. KANE had 

 also made collections and notes when, in 1850, he visited the neighbour- 

 hood of Cape York in the first GRiNELL-expedition under DE HAVEN. 

 His collections were given to Mr. ELIAS DURAND who used them for his 

 memoir "Plantae Kaneanae Groenlandicae". It is, however, to be re- 

 gretted that KANE was not more of a trained botanist, for he had an 

 opportunity of examining parts of the coast never visited by any other 

 explorer; and he had doubtless as well, a keen eye for detecting even 

 the more insignificant species, and a greater interest in botany than most 

 of the travellers in these regions. Now, many of his notes are deci- 

 dedled based upon wrong identifications. Another unfortunate circum- 

 stance is, that his collections, made partly in Danish Greenland, partly 

 to the north, have doubtless in some cases been confounded during the 

 difficult and hazardous retreat of the expedition after the abandonment 

 of the "Advance". Much had to be left behind; and even if, through 

 KANE'S indefatigable exertions, as much was carried along in the boats 



