576 PROCEEDINGS OF BOSTON MEETING. 



In 1888, as stated above, Lesquereiix published * an enumeration of plants ob- 

 tained at cape Lisburn by H. D. Woolfe. This collection included ten species, of 

 which number onl)'^ one was regarded as new to science. 



The last paper dealing with preglacial fossils is one by Felix f in which he de- 

 scribed two species of sihcified wood, one obtained by Dr Krause of Berlin on a 

 basalt mountain south of Danaaka,|. and the other from Copper island, | in the 

 southwestern part of Bering sea. 



F. H. Herrick is the only investigator, so far as I now know, who has identi- 

 fied any of the interglacial wood. His paper, "Microscopical Examination of 

 Wood from the buried Forest, Muir Inlet, Alaska," was published as Supplement iii 

 to Harry Fielding Reid's paper ''Studies of Muir Glacier, Alaska." || Professor 

 Herrick identified the wood submitted to him with the tide-land spruce {Picea 

 sitchensis, Carr.) now living about the glacier, "x3rovided that microscopical ex- 

 amination of the wood alone could be relied upon for the determination of species 

 of coniferous trees." 



A number of pieces of wood from the buried forest of Muir glacier, obtained in 

 1892 by Professor Reid, were submitted to me for examination. The report on 

 them will be published also as an appendix to Professor Reid's paper, soon to ap- 

 pear in the National Geographic Magazine. The species observed are recorded in 

 their proper systematic position in the present paper. 



The latest work dealing with fossil flora of Alaska, and this only incidentally, is 

 the United States Geological Survey correlation paper on the Neocene by W. H. 

 Dall and G. D. Harris. f These authors review at length all fossil-bearing horizons 

 in Alaska, and on a map accompanying the work color each locality geologically. 

 They speak of plant beds in various places. 



Herendeen bay, the locality affording the specimens that form the basis of this 

 paper, is on the northern side of the Alaskan peninsula and forms a branch of 

 Port Moller (latitude 55° 40^; longitude 160° W ±). The plants were collected 

 July 28, 1890, by Mr Charles H. Townsend, resident naturalist of the United States 

 Fish Commission Steamer Albatross. 



Mr Townsend has furnished the following copy of his notes relating to their 

 occurrence : 



July 28,1890.— Ln making a tramway to the new coal mine just opened here (Herendeen bay), 

 .one of the slaty cuttings exposed a large deposit of fossil leaves and ferns, about a mile from 

 the beach, at the head of a little valley among the hills and within a few hundred yards of the 

 mine itself. We visited the place twice and succeeded in getting a considerable quantity of 

 specimens. Coal veins crop out in several places in the region of this bay. The first output of the 

 new mine is now being used in the furnaces of the AlbatrobS, but it is from near the surface and 

 rather slaty. 



Mr Townsend further adds : 



The country is mountainous and treeless, but covered with bushes and smaller vegetation. It 

 is in general volcanic and there are lofty peaks, one of which, Pavloff, has been seen smoking. 



* Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. xi, 18S8, pp. 31-38, pi. xvi, figs. 1-6, and pi. x, fig 4. 

 t Zeitschr. d. D. geol. Gesell., vol. xxxviii, 1886, pp. 483-485. 

 J Fifty miles north of the head of Lynn canal, in southwestern Alaska. 



§This is really extra-limital, but has been included as being more nearly related to the Alaskan 

 province than to any other. 

 II National Geographic Magazine, vol. iv, 1803, pp. 75-78, figs 4, 5. 

 If Bull. U. S. Geol Survey, no. 84, pp. 232-268, pi. iii. 



