ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
OF WASHINGTON. D.C. 
ORDINARY MEETING.* 
H. CADMAN JONES, Esq., IN THE CHAIR. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the 
following Elections were announced :— 
Associates :—Major John Bridge, F.R.G.S., F.R.H.S., Isle of Wight ; 
Rev. F. Baylis, M.A., Manchester. 
The following paper was then read by the Author :— 
THE BOTANY AND ENTOMOLOGY OF ICELAND. 
By Rey. F. A. WALKER, D.D., F.L.S., &c. 
Part I.—Botany of Iceland. 
According to information kindly afforded me by Mr. 
Bennett, the flora of Iceland is a comparatively scanty one 
for an island somewhat larger than Ireland, and may now be 
stated at about 428 species. Of these the only true Arctic 
plants are Arenaria arctica, Epilobium latifolium, Z., Gentiana 
detonsa, Pleurogyne rotata, Salix arctica, Platanthera hyper- 
borea, and perhaps a few others. Two of the above-named 
Arctic plants, at any rate, namely, Epilobium latifolium and 
Platanthera hyperborea, were observed and gathered by me 
during my short visit. Of the 680 species found in Green- 
land, Iceland, and the Faroes, Iceland has about 390, the 
Faroes 310, Scandinavia 570, Nova Zembla 127, Spitzbergen 
116, Arctic N. America and Labrador 310. Of the 428 
Icelandic species, about 55 are not known to inhabit Great 
Britain, 165 are not recorded from Greenland. I have been 
likewise given to understand that a characteristic feature of 
the Icelandic flora is the large number of doubtfully recorded 
species (these are not reckoned above), and without actual 
specimens it is impossible to admit many of them, from their 
geographical distribution elsewhere being against the likeli- 
hood of their occurring. These may be numbered at about 
* 17th February, 1890. 
+ This is the first paper upon the Entomology of Iceland which has 
been written since the advances of science in late years have required a 
fresh treatment of the subject.— Ep. 
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