468 The American Naturalist. 0 
Polar Regions.—Tue Danisu Exprprrion.—Lieutenant R 
of the Danish navy, contrived in spite of the floating ice whic 
extended from three hundred to three hundred and fifty miles f 
Greenland, to enter Scoresby Sound last year, and to discover that: 
was really an extensive fjord with several branches. Hurry’s Inlet, 
branch toward the north, proved to be a fjord 28 miles long, wit 
gneissic cliffs 3000 feet in height on the east, and westward the crag 
of Jameson’s Land, 2500 feet high, seemingly composed largely | 
glacial moraine. Many Jurassic and Tertiary fossils were found í 
Jameson’s Land, while at Cape Brewster, where the cliffs rose 
from 300 to 500 feet, fossils of older date were found. 
The southern shore of Scoresby Sound presents a lofty and unbroke 
granite wall sixty miles in length, the ground rising in the interior 
3000 feet. The widest inlet is named Halls Inlet, and trends n 
west. On its shores are roches moutonnées and strie in abundane 
but noice. The inland ice is not met with until a distance of 1 
miles from the sea is reached, it is found at the heads of the sm 
bays and fjords, and all the fjords seem to reach it. The gneiss 
to 500 feet in the southwest, to 3000 in Milne’s Land (west of Halls 
Inlet) and to 6000 feet in the northern region explored—on the westit 
is covered with basalt. Animal life proved to be rich, especially 
Jameson’s Land, where reindeer occurred in wonderful num 
while the musk-ox was found on Hurry’s Inlet. No less than } 
species of flowering plants were gathered. No inhabitants were 
with, but winter houses and graves were seen. 
PoLAR Nores.—Several whalers have left Dundee for the An 
tic, in the hope of combining discovery with a good catch. 
Dr. Drygalski, in connection with the Geographical Society of Bert 
has erected an observatory between the Great and Little Karajak gl 
iers, on Umanak Fjord, West Greenland. 
Coal has been discovered in Spitzbergen by L. Cremer. 
