A LIST OF PLANTS COLLECTED BY THE CORNELL 
PARTY ON THE PEARY VOYAGE OF 1896. 
W.W.ROWLEE and K. M. WIEGAND. 
TurRouGH the generosity of Mr. E.-G. Wyckoff it was arranged 
that a party of Cornell professors and students representing the 
geological department of the University should accompany 
Lieutenant Peary upon his trip to northwest Greenland during 
the summer of 1896. The party was organized by Professor 
R.S. Tarr. At first he contemplated inviting a professional 
botanist to accompany him; but later, largely on account of the 
additional expense which this course would naturally cause, he 
decided to abandon this part of the enterprise and depend 
entirely upon his own assistants for the collection of botanical 
material. Considering that the main object of the expedition 
was geological rather than botanical study, the success from a 
botanical standpoint is surprising. In all about one hundred 
and thirty-five species and varieties of spermatophytes were col- 
lected, and the interesting series of specimens representing 
Brown’s arctic willow (Salix Grenlandica) gives positive testi- 
mony of the zeal and success with which the party studied the 
flora of the places where they stopped.’ The collection from 
the Nugsuak peninsula is perhaps the most complete yet secured 
by an American expedition. 
The first collection was made at Turnavik island on the 
Labrador coast July 20th. Some collections were made at Big 
island along the northern shore of Hudson strait, and at White 
Strait, Baffin’s land, July 25th to 27th. Godhavn upon the 
island of Disco was visited August 2d and 3d, and finally the 
main collecting ground of the trip, the Nugsuak peninsula, situ- 
ated in lat. 74° 15’, was reached August 7th. There in three 
camping places the party remained until September 7th. Of 
*Professor Tarr was aided in this work by J. O. Martin, who did by far the 
__ §Teater part of the purely botanical work. 
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