436 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
In most of these former voyages it has been the custom to 
include in the Natural History appendices lists of animals and 
specimens procure] in Davis Strait and Baffin Bay. It appeared 
to me that such a procedure was not in the interests of research. 
Most certainly the lists obtained by the Iixpedition of 1875-76 
might be greatly enlarged if they included all species observed 
after entering Davis Strait (the latitude of the north of Scotland); 
but believing that the true interests of biological science would be 
better served by omitting from our collections all specimens made 
during a hasty voyage and superficial examination of the fauna of 
regions already more or less investigated, I confined the collections 
reported on by myself, and submitted to specialists, to those made 
after entering Smith Sound, or, generally speaking, to the north of 
the seventy-ninth parallel of latitude. Our previous knowledge of 
the regions north of this degree, on the American side of the 
Arctic Circle, was based entirely upon the observations of our 
American predecessors, the illustrious arctic travellers Kane and 
Hayes; and to those of the United States Polar Expedition, under 
the command of the late Captain Hall, in the ‘ Polaris.’. 
Notwithstanding the obstacles encountered by these observers, 
arising in a great measure from the inefficiency of their equip- 
ment, the excellence of their work is uot to be gainsaid. Kane’s 
volumes are replete with facts in reference to the Natural History 
of Smith Sound, though the author warns us in his preface that his 
book “is not a record of scientific investigation.” Hayes, during 
his journey along the shores of Grinnell Land, one of the most 
remarkable on record, collected and brought back a series of 
geological specimens,* which at the time represented the most 
northern paleontological collection in existence; and our much 
larger collections from the same localities entirely bear out his 
investigations. The collection of invertebrates,t made by Hayes 
at Port Foulke, embraced—Crustacea, 22 species; Annelida, 18 
species; Mollusca, 21 species; Echinodermata, 7 species; 
Acalephe, 1 species; and it is recorded by Dr. Stimpson, in the 
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 
for May, 1863, that “the number of species collected by Dr. 
Hayes is greater than that brought back by any single expedition 
which has yet visited those seas, as far as can be judged by 
published accounts.” 
* Hayes,*‘ Open Polar Sea,’ p. 341. + Id. p. 388, 
