302 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
many people have had opportunities of hearing, more or less 
directly, from the explorers themselves, the chief features of interest 
in connection with it. It has been left to Sir George Nares, how- 
ever, to bring together ina connected form, first a plain unvarnished 
narrative of the voyage; secondly, the scientific results of the 
Expedition, including a metorological abstract and an abstract 
of results obtained, from the tidal observations; and thirdly, an 
account of the Ethnology, Zoology, Botany, and Geology, as 
worked out by specialists in every branch of these sciences from 
the Reports furnished by the Naturalists to the Expepinee, and 
the collections brought home by them. 
With the first and second of these divisions we do not propose 
to deal; for the former has been already commented on sufficiently 
by far more competent critics than the writer of the present notice, 
and the latter scarcely falls within the province of a magazine 
devoted exclusively to Zoology. It is with regard to the third 
division of the subject that we propose to offer a few remarks, and 
we are the more disposed to enter into detail on this head, since 
in all the reviews of this work which have come under our notice, 
the writers have generally regretted their inability, “for want of 
space,” to deal with the “ Appendix,” which contains the Natural 
History of the voyage. 
Captain Feilden’s contributions last year to ‘The Zoologist’ on 
the Ethnology of the Arctic Regions, and the Mammalia of North 
Greenland and Grinnell Land,* and his excellent paper in ‘The 
Ibis, t on the species of birds met with by the Arctic Expedition 
in Smith Sound and northward between the 78th and 88rd degrees 
of north latitude, may be said to have paved the way for his more 
extended observations in the first three chapters of the Appendix 
to the present work. It is unnecessary, therefore, to say much on 
this portion of the subject, although some of the observations 
recorded, especially with regard to the northernmost range of the 
Mammalia met with, are of great interest. 
The Walrus, it appears, does not proceed further north than the 
meeting of the Baffin’s Bay and Polar tides near Cape Frazer. 
On August 3lst, 1876, a large seal, Phoca barbata, was shot in 
Dobbin Bay by Hans, the Greenlander, on board the ‘ Discovery.’ 
It weighed 510 pounds, and on taking off its skin an Eskimo 
* «The Zoologist,’ 1877, pp. 3183—321, 353—361. 
+ ‘The Ibis,’ 1877, pp. 401—412. 
