CHAPTER IV. 
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF TREES IN NORWAY. 
In 1876 there was published a valuable report on The 
Kingdom of Norway and its People, by Dr. O. J. Broch, 
a distinguished statistician of European reputation, and 
President of the Norwegian Commission for the Interna- 
tional Exhibition in Paris in 1878, in which was embodied 
a sketch of the vegetable products of Norway, including 
forest trees. And in 1879 there was published as a con- 
tribution to the jubilee connected with the 400th anni- 
versary of the founding of the University of Copenhagen, 
A Report on the Distribution of Plants in Norway, by Dr. 
F. C. Schuebeler, Professor of Botany in the University of 
Christiania, in which is supplied much additional informa- 
tion in regard to forest trees, indigenous or cultivated, in 
Norway, with plates illustrative of the appearance of 
these and of the form and venation of their leaves. There 
are given with this report, charts illustrative of the moun- 
tainous region of the country; of the coast lands of 
northern Norway; of the temperature throughout Europe 
on Ist January, and in the month of July ; of the lines of 
minimum temperature throughout north-eastern Europe ; 
of rainfall; of the humidity; and of the geological strata 
superimposed on the primitive rocks. And in the report 
is embodied the longitude and latitude of the most 
northern localities in Norway in which have been ob- 
served the indigenous growth, or cultivation, or flowering, 
or fruiting—it being specified which it is—of well-nigh 
4000 different plants found there. Along with this there 
was issued a large map of the kingdom of Norway in four 
sheets, illustrative of the same, together with a corres- 
