574 PROCEEDINGS OF BOSTON MEETING. 



A year later, ( Irewin^k again referred * to fossil plants in Alaska, especially to 

 the fossil tranks on Unga island, bat nothing beyond this appears to have been 

 noticed, t 



In 1861 G5ppert reported t on a small collection of fossil plants obtained in Au- 

 gust, 1859, by Lieutenant von Doroshin ^ from the islands of Kadiak and Uyak 

 (latitude 57i°) II, Atka (latitude 52°) Tl, and Kootznahoo (latitude 57D *^ The 

 last of these, Kootznahoo, is in the vicinity of or is a part of Admiralty island, 

 near Sitka. It afforded two species of dicotyledons and a single conifer. From 

 the combined localities Goppert enumerated eleven species, a number of which 

 were new ; but he did not describe them. 



In 1866 the same collection was again referred to by Goppert, ft though unfor- 

 tunately, the descriptions were not even then supplied, and consequently most of 

 the names remain nomina nuda. 



In December, 1867, Professor Oswald Heer, of Zurich, wrote a letter relating to 

 Alaskan plants to Professor A. E. Nordenskiold of Stockholm, which was pub- 

 lished in the following year. %% It was an enumeration of the plants brought 

 back by Furuhjelm, and may be considered as an outline of Heer's larger work 

 which appeared in 1869. The plants were arranged according to localities, and 

 most of the new species were briefly characterized. 



In many respects the most important paper on the fossil plants of Alaska is. 

 Heer's J^/ora i^ossiZ/s ylZa.s/:aj2a,§§ which was published in 1869. It was based, as 

 stated above, on collections brought back by Hjalmar Furuhjelm, of Helsingfors, 

 Finland, who, as governor of the Russian- American possessions, resided for nearly 

 ten years in Alaska. He made, it appears, a very large collection, most of which 

 was lost on the Mexican coast by the stranding of the ship in which they were 

 being sent home. The specimens which finally reached Europe were obtained 

 from the island of Kuiu,|||| near Sitka, and from the eastern side of Cook inlet; a 

 part coming from Englisli bay, now better known as Port Graham (latitude 59° '2V ; 

 longitude 151° 52^), and the rest from near a small stream known as the Nenilt- 

 scliik (latitude 60° 9')- The latter place is about 50 miles north of Port Graham. 

 This paper enumerates fifty-six species, of which number nineteen were then new 

 to science. 



* Heidlb. Jalirb. Lit., 1851, p. 235. 



fFor the modern designations and orthography of Alaskan localities I am greatly indebted to 

 Mr Marcus Baker of the United States" Geological Survey. 



X Ueber d. Tertiarfl. d. Poiargegenden : Abhandl. d. Schles. Gesell. fur Vaterland-Cult , 18G1, heft. 

 II, pp. 201-204. 



This paper is also published under the same title in Melan2;es Physique et Chimiques tires du 

 Bulletin de I'Acad. Imp. des. sc. de St. Petersbourg, tome iv, 1860-'C1 ; Saint Petersburg, 1861, pp. 

 G95-712. 



g This name is written "Doroschkin" by Goppert, but is an obvious German rendering of the 

 Russian Doroshin. 



II This is probably from a bay of this name on the northwestern coast of Kadiak, but as there are 

 several nameless islands in this Iniy it is possible that it may be one of them. 



\ This was written "Atha " by Goppert, but Atka is the modern spelling. 



** Given as " Hudsnoi " by Goppert. which is one of the earlier of the many renderings of the 

 word Kootznahoo. 



tfAljhandl. d. Schles. Gesell. f. Vaterland-Cult., 1865-'6G ; Breslau, 1867, p. 50. 



XX Utdrag ur ett bvef af Professor Oswald Heer rovande fossila vexter fran Nordvestra Amerika, 

 insamlade af Bergmilstaren Hj. Furuhjelm: Ofversigt af Vetensaps-Akad. Forhandl., 1868; no. 1 

 pp. 63-68. 



gg Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps-Akad. Handl, vol. vrii, no. 4, 1869, pp. 1-41, pi. i-x. 



nil Written " Kuju" by Heer. 



