THE ZOOLOGIST. 
THIRD SERIES. 
Vou. III.] JANUARY, 1879. [No. 25. 
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PRINCE ALBERT LAND.« 
By H. W. Ferupen, F.G.S., C.M.Z.S. 
I am indebted to the courtesy of Sir Alexander Armstrong, 
the Medical Director of the Navy—formerly Surgeon and 
Naturalist on board the ‘Investigator’ during her ever 
memorable voyage under M‘Clure to the Arctic Regions—for 
- permission to gather, from the archives of the department under 
his control, the data on which the information now offered is 
based; unfortunately the records at my disposal are of a 
somewhat meagre description, consisting of a list of mammals 
and birds found by Mr. Anderson in Prince Albert Land between 
the years 1851—53: this list, however, is supplemented by a very 
careful inventory of the specimens collected, and brought back 
to England. I have been unable to trace the disposal of 
Mr. Anderson’s entire collection, which he states was sent 
to the Secretary of the Admiralty, but there is no doubt in 
my mind that some of the specimens are included in the Barrow 
Collection, now in the University Museum at Oxford, and in all 
probability the specimens of Colymbus Adamsi, and Larus Sabinii, 
included in that collection are identical with those recorded in 
Mr. Anderson’s list. + 
The study of Natural History in the Arctic Regions is 
surrounded by so many difficulties that it becomes a pleasing duty 
to place on record the services of those men, of a former 
* A Contribution to the Natural History of Prince Albert Land. Derived from 
the Medical Returns of the late Surgeon Robert Anderson, of H.M.S. ‘Enterprise.’ 
+ See Harting, Catalogue of the Barrow Collection, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1871, p. 110. 
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