THE ZOOLOGIST. 
THIRD SERIES. 
AEG US. Tester 
Vot. I.) [No. 8. 
on THE MAMMALIA OF NORTH GREENLAND, 
AND GRINNELL LAND. 
By H. W. Freitpen, F.G.S., C.M.Z.S. 
On the 29th July, 1875, the Arctic Expedition,—H.M. Ships 
‘Alert’ and ‘ Discovery,—under the command of Captain G. S. 
Nares, R.N., passed from the north-water of Baffin Bay into 
the ice of Smith Sound. On the Ist September, 1875, the 
‘Alert’ reached the limit of navigation, in latitude 82° 27’ N., 
on the northern shore of Grinnell Land, the ‘ Discovery’ having 
previously found winter-quarters in a commodious harbour on 
the western side of Robeson Channel, in 81° 44’ N. lat. In 
the following year, 1876, sledging expeditions were pushed out 
- due north over the frozen sea, and also along the coast lines 
east and west, whilst subsidiary sledging expeditions examined 
various portions of coast line and penetrated, where possible, 
into the interior. All the officers employed in these expeditions 
took a lively interest in the zoological results of the voyage, 
and I am indebted to one and all for their ready assistance. 
A large extent of country was carefully worked, and | am 
quite confident that no species of mammal escaped our united 
observations. In the end of July, 1876, after an imprisonment 
of eleven months, the ‘ Alert’ broke out of winter-quarters, and 
again rounding Cape Union joined her consort at Discovery 
Bay. Together the two vessels made the perilous passage 
down Smith Sound, and on the 10th September reached the 
north-water, and comparative safety, of Baflin Bay. 
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