232 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
much higher latitude than has elsewhere been explored botanically, 
he spe- 
a 
ertain warm gales and warm currents that were experienced in 
lat. 82° and 83° May not these phenomena of vegetation and 
temperature indicate the existence of large tracts of land clothed 
with vegetation in th rior of nland, far within the 
competent and willing workers in most of the departments, while 
their association with such naturalists as Agassiz and Hecke 
