PREFACE vii 
the Meddelelser om Grénland (Communications on 
Greenland), more than fifty volumes of which have 
already appeared: this publication, devoted ex- 
clusively to subjects connected with Greenland, 
reflects the greatest credit upon the Danish 
Government. Free use has also been made of 
information given to me in conversation by Mr 
Porsild. 
Passages from the botanical and geological 
portions of this sketch and a few of the illustrations 
have been published in Discovery: for permission 
to reproduce them here my thanks are due to the 
Publisher and Editor of that Journal. 
The celebration in July of last year of the Bi- 
centenary of the landing of Hans Egede in Green- 
land was not only made the occasion of a royal 
visit, but the event was marked by the publication, 
at the end of 1921, of a comprehensive work 
by several authors, entitled Gréz/and, written in 
Danish, and prepared under the auspices of the 
Commission for promoting scientific investigation 
in the country 
Though it would be out of place here to enu- 
merate the species of recent plants collected, I take 
this opportunity of thanking the following botanists 
for examining and determining our material: 
Miss A. Lorrain Smith (lichens), Mr H. N. Dixon 
(mosses), Mr W. E. Nicholson (liverworts), and 
Dr W. J. Hodgetts (freshwater algae). Nearly 200 
species of flowering plants were obtained, chiefly 
by Mr Holttum: a representative collection of these 
has been sent to the Herbarium, the Royal Gar- 
