306 ‘ THE ZOOLOGIST. 
The Crustacea collected have been carefully examined and 
named by Mr. E. J. Miers (Appendix, pp. 240—255), assisted by 
the Rev. A. M. Norman and Dr. George Brady, and figures are 
given of some of the more noteworthy species. 
In the same way, the Annelids have been worked out by 
Dr. M‘Intosh; the Echinoderms by Prof. Duncan and Mr. W. P. 
Sladen; the Polyzoa by Prof. Busk; the Hydrozoa by Prof. 
Allman; the Spongide by Mr. H. J. Carter; and the Rhizopoda 
by Mr. H. B. Brady. 
The botanical collections, from lat. 80°—88°, of which Sir Joseph 
Hooker has given an account (Appendix, pp. 301—326), prove 
that the vegetation of this meridian of the Polar area is entirely 
Greenlandic, showing no further relationship than does Greenland 
itself to the floras of the American Polar islands to the west of it, 
and of Spitzbergen to the east of it. In other words, it possesses 
Greenland plants that are wanting in either or in both of these 
localities, and wants plants that either or both of those regions 
possess, but which are absent in Greenland. No fewer than sixty- 
nine identifiable flowering plants and ferns, and half-a-dozen more 
in too imperfect a condition to be named accurately, have been 
been brought by the Expedition from the latitudes above men- 
tioned; besides nearly as many more from the Greenland coast 
south of it, 
Capt. Feilden’s remarks on the geological structure of the coasts 
of Grinnell Land and Hall Basin occupy a considerable number of 
pages (pp. 827—345), and will repay attentive perusal. 
If the main object of this Expedition was not attained, it cannot 
be said that the explorers were less successful than any of their 
predecessors, In the words of Admiral Richards, ‘“ The bold and 
skilful seamanship which carried the ships to the extreme limit of 
navigation, and placed the ‘ Alert’ alone in a position in which no 
ship before had ever passed an Arctic winter, was worthy of the 
leader, and an earnest of what would have been accomplished had 
it beep in man’s power to command success. ‘lhe subsequent 
deeds of the officers and crews, under circumstances of trial 
and suffering which have rarely been equalled, have never been 
surpassed,” 
If our knowledge of polar geography has not been greatly 
enlarged by this the latest exploration, the scientific results of — 
the Expedition bave been considerable; and the statistics now 
