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showed its first flowers on June 7th and before the end of the 

 month about 25 species were in bloom, more than were noticed 

 at that time in any other summer. 



It had been my intention to set out on a dredging trip as 

 early as possible and then to come back again in time for land- 

 excursions along the outer Httle-investigated part of the Goose- 

 fjord and in the Walrusfjord, but as we could not get a 

 boat with a complete crew before July 7th and as unforeseen 

 circumstances prolonged the boatexcursion until the beginning 

 of August, the collections of landplants became very insignificant 

 during the last summer. 



During the boat excursion on this occassion we visited the 

 little Borgøn (Castle Island), where I found only 11 species of 

 flovering plants and made collections of mosses, lichens and 

 freshwater algae. Our next station was H a vh estberget 

 (Fulmar petrel cliff) on the coast of N. Devon where the 

 vegetation on the low foreland in spite of the limestoneformation 

 was rather luxuriant, if not rich in species, on account of the 

 fertile soil enriched by the dung of many thousands of birds. 



For the first time I here saw red snow in considerable 

 quantities and collected samples thereof. 



From here we followed the coast of N. Devon up to the 

 north side of Norfolk Inlet, where on a little islet we became 

 closed in by ice for over a week, and only with great difficulty 

 could we make our way back to the Ellesmereland-side and 

 come on board again on August 5th. During this journey dred- 

 gings were made at all stations until it became necessary to 

 make the attempts to get back the principal object. I got a 

 good many algae although not of many species, still some of 

 thems may not have been found the previous year as is cer- 

 tainly the case with a Chaetomorpha, that was dredged up 

 abundantly at the mouth of Norfolk Inlet. 



Having left the Go o s ef jord on the morning of the 6th. 

 we entered the Hamn fjord and anchored at our old winter- 



